Juggernaut
The Juggernaut plugin for Ruby on Rails aims to revolutionize your Rails app by letting the server initiate a connection and push data to the client. In other words your app can have a real time connection to the server with the advantage of instant updates.
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RailsLab .:. Scaling Rails - Scaling Rails Screencasts
Learn everything you need to know about Scaling your Rails app through 13 informative Screencasts produced by Gregg Pollack with the support of New Relic.
Passenger ignores RailsEnv directive for Rails 3 applications
You might find that your Passenger ignores all RailsSomething
directives in the vhost for your new Rails 3 application. The culprit is a file config.ru
which makes Passenger consider your application a Rack (non-Rails) application.
To fix thi...
Railscheck project home page
This project is (or will be) a best effort semi-static verifier for your Ruby on Rails projects. Delivered as a Ruby gem it provides a shell command task "railscheck" that you can run against your Rails projects to test for a number of typical bug...
Disable Rails XSS protection in ActionMailer views
This might eventually be fixed by Rails itself.\
Right now this is the way to have the rails_xss plugin not escape the body of ActionMailer mails.
Put this into config/initializers/mailers_without_rails_xss.rb
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markbates/coffeebeans
When CoffeeScript was added to Rails 3.1 they forgot one very important part, the ability to use it when responding to JavaScript (JS) requests!
In Rails 3.1 it’s incredibly easy to build your application’s JavaScript using CoffeeScript, however ...
Default views in Rails 3.0 with custom resolvers
It is common in Rails 3.0 applications that you want to provide default views for a group of controllers. Let’s say you have a bunch of controllers inside the Admin namespace and you would like each action to fallback to a default template. So if ...
Rails jQuery UJS: Now Interactive
We can now plug into every facet of the Rails jQuery UJS adapter, binding to custom events, and even customizing internal functions, without hacking or monkey-patching the rails.js file itself.
Upgrading Cucumber and Capybara to the latest versions available for Rails 2
Specify these gem versions in your Gemfile:
gem 'cucumber', '~> 1.3.0'
gem 'cucumber-rails', '= 0.3.2' # max version for Rails 2
gem 'capybara', '< 2' # capybara 2+ requires Rails 3
gem 'mime-types', '< 2' # dependeny of capybara
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Making the rails 3.1. asset pipeline and asset precompiling work in production mode
Recently, we had an interesting lunch-break with the rails 3.1. asset-pipeline in production mode. Daniel Zahn made a blogpost about our journey, precompiling assets, fingerprinting, Haml, Sass & Compass and what he calls "the dark heinous hutch".