Cheating Rails: Calling render() outside your Controllers
Do that for noble reasons only.
Railscheck project home page
This project is (or will be) a best effort semi-static verifier for your Ruby on Rails projects. Delivered as a Ruby gem it provides a shell command task "railscheck" that you can run against your Rails projects to test for a number of typical bugs, potential problems and inconsistencies.
Google Summer of Code winner: ActiveModel for Ruby on Rails
Finish the remainder of the ActiveModel todo list (observers, callbacks, validations, scoping, and serialization) in addition to associations. Also wire up ActiveModel up to ActiveRecord and ActiveResource.
Cross-Domain Data with Rack and Rails | Union Station
Asynchronous JavaScript and CSS, also known as CSSHttpRequest, is a method of URI-encoding data in 2KB chunks split over several CSS rules with a modified data URI scheme. Because CSS is not subject to the same-origin policy, no service proxy is required.
Rails Rescue Handbook, an ebook by Mike Gunderloy
How to rescue a project without losing your mind.
8 tips for testing Rails apps with Cucumber - Momoro Machine
Here are eight things my team has found to be true after working with Cucumber for about 6 months.
Relevance Blog : Insurance on Rails
hat's the dirty little secret of our industry; green screen apps are usually pretty darn fast. They aren't simple, though. They are designed for trained users, users who have long since added their app usage patterns to their muscle memory.
Using SSL in Rails Applications
On any page accessed with SSL, all Ajax requests must use SSL, or they will fail. To make this happen, all you need to do is include the names of the actions that service the requests in your ssl_required statement.
has_many :bugs, :through => :rails: Make your shoulda tests faster with fast_context
decided to go fixtureless with Shoulda + Factory Girl. All good, except one problem. Slow as fuck tests. So here’s fast_context as a solution for it. fast_context compiles all the ‘should’s within a context into a single test.
Beta Blog: Kill Your Signup Form with Rails
Even though the gradual engagement meme has been around for a while, and everyone just hates signup forms, they just seem to keep popping up like a bad habit.
Juggernaut
The Juggernaut plugin for Ruby on Rails aims to revolutionize your Rails app by letting the server initiate a connection and push data to the client. In other words your app can have a real time connection to the server with the advantage of instant updates.
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.
ActiveModel: Make Any Ruby Object Feel Like ActiveRecord « Katz Got Your Tongue?
Rails 2.3 has a ton of really nice functionality locked up in monolithic components. I’ve posted quite a bit about how we’ve opened up a lot of that functionality in ActionPack, making it easier to reuse the router, dispatcher, and individual parts of ActionController. ActiveModel is another way we’ve exposed useful functionality to you in Rails 3.
Getting Started with Webrat, Selenium, Rails and Firefox 3 | Viget Extend
Info on install database_cleaner.
Make Sure Your Rails Application is Actually Caching (and not just pretending) - Alfa Jango Blog » Blog Archive
It occurred to me that many Rails/Passenger/Apache applications may have caching set up in a way that it appears to be caching, when it is not actually caching.