Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example | by Michael Hartl
A thorough introduction to web development with Ruby on Rails
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Passing the --profile flag to RSpec produces some additional output, namely the running times of the ten slowest examples in your specs.
Lightning Talk: Coverage based Test Case Prioritization in Ruby on Rails
For my computer science bachelor's thesis I programmed and evaluated a CLI Test Case Prioritization (TCP) tool for makandra. It has been written as a Ruby Gem and was tested and evaluated against one Ruby on Rails project....
Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way - Axon Flux - A Ruby on Rails Blog
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Ruby, Rails, Web2.0 » Blog Archive » Great Ruby on Rails REST resources
I have been playing around with RESTful Rails recently. Below is my collection or Rails REST howtos, tutorials and other resources I have found so far.
Using mime types with send_file
When using send_file (for example for attachments of any kind), make sure your application knows the correct mime types so that all browsers can handle the files. It is much more convenient for users if they can decide to open a file directly in...
Reverse lookup a fixture name by its id and table name
To reverse lookup a fixture by its table name and id, use the following approach on ActiveRecord::FixtureSet:
table = 'users' # Specify the fixture table name
id = 123122 # Specify the ID to look for
# Find the fixture ...
How to fix "undefined method `name' for Array" error when running bundled commands on Ruby 1.8.7 + Rails 2.3
On recent/fresh installations of Ruby 1.8.7 you may encounter this error why calling any bundled binary (or just bundle exec):
/home/arne/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p374@global/gems/rubygems-bundler-1.4.2/lib/rubygems-bundler/noexec.rb:75:in ...
Rails: Example on how to extract domain independent code from the `app/models` folder to the `lib/` folder
This cards describes an example with a Github Client on how to keep your Rails application more maintainable by extracting domain independent code from the app/models folder to the lib/ folder. The approach is applicable to arbitrary scenarios...
Ruby on Rails 4 and Batman.js
Batman is an alternative Javascript MVC with a similar flavor as AngularJS, but a lot less features and geared towards Ruby on Rails.
The attached link ...
Introducing RMM, the Rails Maturity Model - Ruby on Rails meets the business world | Google Groups
A couple of Railsconfs ago, Courtenay and I did indeed discuss