Recently I've been made aware of people inside US Government organizations using my Ruby on Rails Security presentation as an excuse to limit Ruby on Rails adoption and projects inside those organizations.

Amidst my 400 unread Boing Boing links are probably ten or fifteen that are probably real gems. But I’ll never know and Boing Boing sure as hell isn’t going to help me out.

Write declarative tests using nested contexts without performance penalties. Contest is less than 100 lines of code and gets the job done.

Pure-Ruby alternative to Cucumber.

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

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.