Make Makandra Consul work with RSpec 2.x and Rails 3.x
To make the RSpec matcher of the authorization solution Consul work with Rspec 2.x read the following blog post.
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Security issues with hash conditions in Rails 2 and Rails 3
Find conditions for scopes can be given either as an array (:conditions => ['state = ?', 'draft']) or a hash (:conditions => { 'state' => 'draft' }). The later is nicer to read, but has horrible security implications in some versions of Ru...
Problems with Rails 3 Remote Links and Forms Using jQuery .live() in IE
There is a problem with AJAX response handling for Rails 3 remote links and forms in Internet Explorer. This problem affects applications still using jQuery 1.4.2.
How to set up database_cleaner for Rails with Cucumber and RSpec
Add gem 'database_cleaner' to your Gemfile. Then:
Cucumber & Rails 3+
# features/support/database_cleaner.rb
DatabaseCleaner.clean_with(:deletion) # clean once, now
DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction
Cucumber::Rails::Database.java...
Save ActiveRecord models without callbacks or validations (in Rails 2 and Rails 3)
Rails 2
You can use
record.send(:update_without_callbacks)
or
record.send(:create_without_callbacks)
This can be used as a lightweight alternative to machinist's make or FactoryGirl's create, when you just need objects...
Speed up file downloads with Rails, Apache and X-Sendfile
When you use the send_file method to send a local file to the browser, you can save resources on the application server by setting the :x_sendfile option to true. This option i...
How to make your git aliases work with both master and main
The linked article found a simple way to rewrite legacy git aliases to make them work with differently named default branches
- Step 1: Decide which is the most common default bran...
Nested controller routes (Rails 2 and 3)
In order to keep the controllers directory tidy, we recently started to namespace controllers. With the :controller option you can tell Rails which controller to use for a path or resource. For nested resources, Rails will determine the view pat...
Rails 3: Make "link_to :remote => true" replace HTML elements with jQuery
In Rails 2, you could use link_to_remote ... :update => 'id' to automatically replace the content of $('#id').
To do the same in Rails 3, include usual rails-ujs JavaScript, and...
How to use Simplecov to find untested code in a Rails project with RSpec and Cucumber
Simplecov is a code coverage tool. This helps you to find out which parts of your application are not tested.
Integrating this in a rails project with rspec, cucumber and parallel_tests is easy.
- Add i...
Use different code for Rails 2 and Rails 3
When writing a piece of reusable code, you sometimes need to have separate code for Rails 2 and Rails 3. You can distinguish between Rails versions like this:
if Rails.version < '3' # mind the quotes
# Rails 2 code goes here
else
...