Write declarative tests using nested contexts without performance penalties. Contest is less than 100 lines of code and gets the...
Pure-Ruby alternative to Cucumber.
I've recently moved from using Parallels for browser testing to Sun's Open Source VirtualBox. Here's a walkthrough...
On any page accessed with SSL, all Ajax requests must use SSL, or they will fail. To make this happen...
Passing the --profile flag to RSpec produces some additional output, namely the running times of the ten slowest examples in...
Background allows you to add some context to the scenarios in a single feature. A Background is much like a...
All methods generated by string_attr_reader are now added to that new module instead of the class. The result...
The idea behind scrooge is both surprisingly simple and powerful: instead of forcing the developer to manually specify each attribute...
Deadweight is RCov for CSS, kind of. Given a set of stylesheets and a set of URLs, it determines which...
decided to go fixtureless with Shoulda + Factory Girl. All good, except one problem. Slow as fuck tests. So here’s...
Stop writing your own random string generators. Rails does this for you.
Apple's random rules for iPhone app approval are a recipe for trivial apps and alienated developers
Concerns is a simple Rails plugin that provides you with a simple way to organise your Controllers, Models and Mailers...
DevIL is a fast and lightweight image library that supports the loading and saving of images in almost any graphics...
Browsera automatically detects cross-browser layout problems and scripting errors on your website.
If I ruled the world, IE would not be used by people. Since that is not the case, we need...
What Pradipta Archiputra (aka "MAX ARCHIE") uses to send his recruitment emails. This plugin pretends that CC and BCC
If you need big synchronization points, e.g. for big marketing campaigns, you might be better off using an iterative development...
R. Clayton Miller's 10/GUI is probably one of the most dramatic reimaginations of the desktop user interface I’ve...
In the end, the structure of data is something fundamental that can't be simplified or abstracted away. The ORM...
Unit tests are to refactoring like a drop cloth is to painting. Both feel like more work at first but...