RailsPanel chrome extension
Chrome extension that shows all info from your rails log (like parameters, response times, view rendering times, DB requests) inside a chrome panel.
Redactor WYSIWYG html editor
New WYSIWYG editor that claims to be lighter and prettier than TinyMCE and CKEditor. Has some Rails integration, too.
King of Nothing, the DCI paradigm is a scam
I’ve worked on huge applications in Ruby and Rails before. I very much want to believe in DCI, but I’m having a hard time accepting the promises of Clean Ruby when it seems like the work on this paradigm is half-done. If it weren’t so oversold and hyped, I think I’d be more patient, but right now I’m just frustrated and confused.
RubyMine 4.5.1: Sass/SCSS Support Improvements
A number of issues concerning Sass/SCSS autocompletion and syntax highlighting were submitted as a feedback for RubyMine 4.5. Web development with Rails can’t do without Sass/SCSS code writing so we’ve decided to fix the most annoying bugs as soon as possible.
Modifying Rake Tasks - Dan Manges's Blog
For custom Rake tasks, you shouldn't need to modify them after the original definition. However, if you want to add behavior to some vendor tasks (such as those defined with Rails), this blog post will cover how to do that.
Difference between class_inheritable_attribute and class_attribute | martinciu's dev blog
How to make class_attribute behave like class_inheritable_attribte which no longer exists in Rails.
Updated: Preload associations in loaded records
I ported the initializer to Rails 3.
Aspect Oriented Programming in Ruby
Slides presenting ways to integrate the ideas of Aspect-Oriented Programming in Ruby.
Outline
- Why Aspect-Oriented Programming?
- AOP in Java and AspectJ (a Review).
- AOP in Ruby.
- What you can do today.
- Example AOP-isms in Ruby on Rails.
- Aspect-Oriented Design.
- The AOP Promise for Tomorrow.
fnando/i18n-js
A small library to provide the Rails I18n translations in Javascript clients.
Update: Aggregated RSpec/Cucumber test coverage with RCov
Our rcov:all task for aggregated RSpec/Cucumber coverage was overhauled extensively. Among other things it now works for Rails 2 and 3 and has an option to ignore shared traits.
Cucumber.yml was found, but could not be parsed.
If you encounter the error message above when running cucumber, just execute...
rm rerun.txt
...in the Rails directory.
Or run...
tests
...from the geordi gem. This will do the work for you automatically.
Fix "undefined method `destroy'" in reset_session
This is a bug in Rails 2.3.11 which will be fixed in a future maintenance release.
Until then you can copy the attached initializer to config/initializers.
Standalone Cucumber Test Suite
Sometimes you inherit a non Rails or non Rack based web app such as PHP, Perl, Java / JEE, etc. I like using cucumber for functional testing so I put together this project structure to use as a starting point for testing non Ruby web based applications.
clemens's delocalize at master - GitHub
delocalize provides localized date/time and number parsing functionality for Rails.
Connecting to MSSQL with Ruby on Ubuntu - lambie.org
I’m working on a problem for a client which involves connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database from Linux using Ruby. Here’s what I did to get it working, based off some useful instructions that are tailored for Ruby on Rails:
mdub's sham_rack at master - GitHub
Or, you can test your Rack application (or Sinatra, or Rails, or Merb) using arbitrary HTTP client libraries, to check interoperability.
FileMaker API for Ruby : SFR FileMaker Blog
Rfm brings your FileMaker data to Ruby with elegance and speed. Now your Ruby scripts and Rails applications can talk directly to your FileMaker server with a syntax that just feels right.
Bowline – A Ruby GUI framework | Lead Thinking
In a nutshell, Bowline lets you build cross platform desktop applications with Ruby, HTML and JavaScript. The idea is to make building desktop apps as simple (and fun) as building Rails websites.
mynyml's holygrail at master - GitHub
The Holy Grail of testing for front-end development; execute browser-less, console-based, javascript + DOM code right from within your Rails test suite.
A nicer way to run RSpec and/or Cucumber
geordi, our collection of awesome shell scripts, has been extended by three scripts to help you call RSpec or Cucumber:
cuc
This script runs Cucumber the way you want it:
- Prints some line feeds to easily find your test results when you come back to the console later
- Configures Cucumber to use cucumber_spinner if it is available in your
Gemfile - Runs Cucumber under
bundle exec - Uses an old version of Firefox for Selenium (Javascript) features...
Live CSS / view reloading
Next time you have to do more than trivial CSS changes on a project, you probably want to have live CSS reloading, so every time you safe your css, the browser updates automatically. It's pretty easy to set up and will safe you a lot of time in the long run. It will also instantly reload changes to your html views.
Simply follow the instructions below, taken from blog.55minutes.com.
Install CSS live reload (only once per project)
- Add th...
How to deal with "invalid %-encoding" error in application for malformed uri
Lead by a discussion of this issue, I built in a middleware which answers those requests with [400] bad request rather than raising an ArgumentError.
I put it into app/util and configured application.rb like that:
# catches 'invalid %-encoding' error
require "#{Rails.root}/app/util/exception_app"
config.middleware.insert_before Rack::Runtime, ExceptionApp::Middleware
Note: Rails 4.2+ raises an ActionController::BadRequest error instead of an ArgumentError.
Don't use migrations to seed default data
Don't insert table rows in a Rails database migration. This will break tests that expect that database to be empty and cause you all sorts of pain.
If you need a place for default application data, use db/seed.rb or put a script into lib/scripts. It won't run automatically, so add a chore story to Pivotal Tracker as a reminder.