James on Software | Introducing Trample: A Better Load Simulator
Trample is a more flexible load simulator. Instead of a static list of urls, trample's configuration language is ruby. Using ruby's blocks (lambda functions), it's possible to randomize the requests that get made in each thread, as well as the user that logs in.
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On Being A Journeyman Software Craftsman: Test-first and Test-driven conversation with JB Rainsberger
We had a conversation about the fact that the 'TDD is about testing vs TDD is about design" debate that keeps popping up, especially now in the Ruby community.
Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way - Axon Flux - A Ruby on Rails Blog
There are a bunch of basic functional elements to building out a popular Rails app that I've never really seen explained in one place, but we had to learn the hard way while building Posterous.
"cannot load such file -- nokogiri/nokogiri" (or any other Gem with native extensions on rvm and Ruby >= 2)
After running bundler / gem install I could not load nokogiri lately. It died with cannot load such file -- nokogiri/nokogiri.
This is not a problem of the gem but is due to a broken native extensions installation routine.
When installing nokog...
Ruby: How to load a file with a known encoding
In case Ruby does not detected the expected encoding of a file automatically you can specify the known encoding manually.
Example with File.open
file = File.open('some.bin', encoding: Encoding::ASCII_8BIT)
text = file.read
text.encoding =>...
Finding a method name on a Ruby object
Wondering how a specific method on an object is exactly named? You can use Enumerable#grep to detect it in the array of methods.
@user.methods.grep /name/ # => [:name, :first_name, :last_name]
You can also call #private_methods o...
Handy: A regex that validates all valid email addresses (give or take) - Axon Flux // A Ruby on Rails Blog
/^([\w!#$%&'*+-/=?^`{|}~]+.)*[\w!#$%&'*+-/=?^`{|}~]+@((((([a-z0-9]{1}[a-z0-9-]{0,62}[a-z0-9]{1})|[a-z]).)+[a-z]{2,6})|(\d{1,3}.){3}\d{1,3}(:\d{1,5})?)$/i
The Exciter - Why You Should Deploy Your Next Application on Ruby 1.9 and a Rant in General
The rubyforge gems model may not be perfect, but damnit people, when there’s a gem update I know that it has actually been tested somewhat and it’s not just whatever random point HEAD happens to be at, at that point in time, by some random Joe who...
Never write a Cucumber step definition again with Cucumber Factory - Gem Session: gem
I love Cucumber, but I hate writing step definitions. They are ugly, awkward to write and very, very boring: Most step defintions merely create objects for a scenario to chew on.
Tracking Down Slow-Running Examples in RSpec » Idol Hands: An Alpha Geek Guide to Ruby on Rails, DIY, and More
Passing the --profile flag to RSpec produces some additional output, namely the running times of the ten slowest examples in your specs.