Integrity is the angel watching over your shoulder while you code. As soon as you push your commits, it builds, runs your tests, and makes sure everything works fine.

In this presentation, I demoed Cucumber and Webrat. I also talked about Integrity and how I like to put it all together.

So, as a result, people using RESTful ideas to talk to browsers have to put the smarts back on the server. They invent new URLs which (for example) return a resource, but return it all wrapped up in the HTML needed to display it as a form for browser-based editing.

BDD/Cucumber talk by Ben Mabey.

Record Filter gives you the full power of ActiveRecord's query building tools with a heaping helping of DSL thrown in to save your Ruby-loving fingers from writing nasty SQL.

A collection of useful utilities for Capistrano deployments

Debugging toolbar for Rack applications implemented as middlewa

Capistrano recipes for database backups before migrations, passenger deployment strategy, release tagging in Git repos.

View testing that doesn't suck.

Another ActiveModel alternative.

I brought up the question whether tests should call the translation API when checking for the presence of a string.

What Is Bloat?

Passing the --profile flag to RSpec produces some additional output, namely the running times of the ten slowest examples in your specs.

Background allows you to add some context to the scenarios in a single feature. A Background is much like a scenario containing a number of steps. The difference is when it is run. The background is run before each of your scenarios but after any of your Before Hooks.

What Pradipta Archiputra (aka "MAX ARCHIE") uses to send his recruitment emails. This plugin pretends that CC and BCC

Learn how to set up a one-to-many or many-to-many association which is entirely embedded into a single column through a string or bitmask.

Another replacement for factories and fixtures that focuses on being DRY and making developers type as little as possible.

Template inliner avoids the problem when to render a large list of objects,

this is a very cool lib,

Fuck acronyms, really

An ActionMailer delivery method to save mails as files in a directory.