Background - cucumber - GitHub
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.
tbuser's acts_as_pradipta at master - GitHub
What Pradipta Archiputra (aka "MAX ARCHIE") uses to send his recruitment emails. This plugin pretends that CC and BCC
Railscasts - Embedded Association
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.
sinsiliux's Blueprints at master - GitHub
Another replacement for factories and fixtures that focuses on being DRY and making developers type as little as possible.
acunote's template_inliner at master - GitHub
Template inliner avoids the problem when to render a large list of objects,
CSS Rant -- 5 tips for rails developer sanity - Momoro Machine
Fuck acronyms, really
cwninja's inaction_mailer at master - GitHub
An ActionMailer delivery method to save mails as files in a directory.
cwninja's popthis at master - GitHub
So you downloaded inaction_mailer, and you had a folder full of e-mails generated while writing your app?
elevation's event_calendar at master - GitHub
Easily show multiple, overlapping events across calendar days and rows.
pjdavis's identity-map at master - GitHub
A simple implementation of an Identity Mapper for Active Record.
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 modules weren't built with macros in mind.
datagraph's rack-throttle at master - GitHub
Rack middleware for rate-limiting incoming HTTP requests.
jnicklas's carrierwave at master - GitHub
File upload solution that supports form roundtrips when a validation fails.
Handy! RGB to HSL and RGB to HSV color model conversion algorithms in JavaScript - Axon Flux // A Ruby on Rails Blog
Here is a set of additive color model conversion algorithms that I found published on Wikipedia and have implemented in JavaScript.
Sailing down the Hudson with RVM - GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS
We recently decided our CI server needed an overhaul. I really enjoyed Integrity as a build server, but after trying out Hudson it’s hard to say I want to go back. Hudson has several huge advantages.
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.
Insertion/Deletion callbacks
All ActiveRecord associations except for has_many :through support callbacks for pre- and post-insertion/deletion via the following, self-documenting parameters:
Make your Rails console (and irb) output better readable
Pour color on your Rails console with awesome_print. Turn confusing long strings into formatted output. Have objects and classes laid out clearly whenever you need it.
Put gem 'awesome_print', :group => :development into your Gemfile. Now on the Rails console you have the command ap that will give you a colored, formatted output of whatever you pass it. See the example output of the User class below.
For customization visit the repository on Github.
- Have a Rails Engine for each logical component instead of writing a single big Rails Application
- Build database-independent components as gems
- Thus: gems/ and engines/ directories instead of app/
- Define a dependency graph of components. It should have few edges.
- Gems and Engines can be extracted easier once nece...
Rails: Have different session secrets for all environments
The Rails secret_token must be unique for each application and any instance of it. If not, someone could exploit this by creating a user with ID = 1 (e.g. on staging), sign in and then use that cookie to authenticate on another site (e.g. on production, where the user with ID = 1 probably is the admin).
Here is a one-for-all solution that does not affect current production users, leaving the production token unchanged: prefix the existing secret_token with #{Rails.env unless Rails.env.production?}.
Note: There may be tokens in ...
Automatically validating dependency licenses with License Finder
"Open-source software (OSS) is great. Anyone can use virtually any open-source code in their projects."
Well, it depends. Licenses can make things difficult, especially when you are developing closed-source software. Since some OSS licenses even require the employing application to be open-sourced as well (looking at you, GPL), you cannot use such software in a closed-source project.
To be sure on this, we have developed a project-level integration of Pivotal's excellent [license_finder](https:/...