Will Rails 3 obstruct plugin innovation? - Gem Session
Where there was once a consistent API to manipulate and hook into the lifecycle of a persistent object, plugins must now perform very careful checks whether an object supports more advanced traits like transactions, observers or dirty attribute tracking.
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How to split a Ruby class into multiple source files - Gem Session
Unfortunately vanilla Ruby modules lack support for many idioms popular in modern Ruby. Most importantly, we have become accustomed to composing our classes with meta-programming macros such as has_many, validates_presence_of or after_save. And mo...
How to make changes to a Ruby gem (as a Rails developer)
At makandra, we've built a few gems over the years. Some of these are quite popular: spreewald (> 1M downloads), active_type (> 1M downloads), and geordi (> 200k downloads)
Developing a Ruby gem is different from developing Rails applications, w...
makandra/consul
Our new scope-based authorization gem for Ruby on Rails has been released. This might one day replace Aegis as our standard authorization solution.
metric_fu: A Ruby Gem for Easy Metric Report Generation
Metric_fu is a set of rake tasks that make it easy to generate metrics reports. It uses Saikuro, Flog, Flay, Rcov, Reek, Roodi, Subversion, Git, and Rails built-in stats task to create a series of reports. It's designed to integrate easily with Cr...
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.
Ruby on Rails » Keeping Up With The Joneses: Keeping Rails and its extensions up to date » Pathfinder Development
There are many wonderful things about Rails and the Rails ecosystem. A clean, well-lighted path for keeping all your extensions up to date is not one of them.
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
MailStyle: A HTML Email Plugin for Ruby on Rails | Purify Blog
MailStyle allows you to write the css for your html emails as you normally would, then writes the styles inline when you send your emails. It also makes sure that your image paths are absolute rather than relative.
Install the SQLite 3 gem for Ruby under Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev
sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby
Ultimate rspec matcher to test named_scope or scoped - Web development blog
What do we expect from the custom finder? We expect that it should find assets A, B, C and should not find assets D, E, F. And sometimes the order is important: it should find A, B C with exact order.