All methods generated by string_attr_reader are now added to that new module instead of the class. The result is that when overriding those methods you can now call super because they’re are inherited from the new module.

The idea behind scrooge is both surprisingly simple and powerful: instead of forcing the developer to manually specify each attribute column, simply observe and record for some period of time all of the attribute accesses and then reuse this knowledge in the future to automatically optimize your subsequent query requests.

Deadweight is RCov for CSS, kind of. Given a set of stylesheets and a set of URLs, it determines which selectors are actually used and reports which can be "safely" deleted.

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.

Stop writing your own random string generators. Rails does this for you.

WTF GitHub??

DevIL is a fast and lightweight image library that supports the loading and saving of images in almost any graphics format. It also provides some basic image manipulation functionality.

Riot differs primarily in that it does not rerun setup for each test in a context.

Limelight is a rich client GUI framework unlike any other. With a unique angle on GUI development, Limelight harnesses the power to develop a wide range of applications from business tools to games.

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.

A rails plugin to store a collection of boolean attributes in a single ActiveRecord column as a bit field.

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.

Are you still adding printf/puts calls and restarting your app to figure what went wrong

Store schema-less data in MySQL.

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

Using the Re library, that regular expression can be built incrementaly from smaller, easier to understand expressions.

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.

Make a Ruby class or module extend itself.

this is a very cool lib,

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.

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

So you downloaded inaction_mailer, and you had a folder full of e-mails generated while writing your app?