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.

Provides an irb session to an existing ruby process.

The basics of Isolate, a tool for replacing Bundler in gem management.

A thorough introduction to web development with Ruby on Rails

Clockwork is a cron replacement. It runs as a lightweight, long-running Ruby process which sits alongside your web processes (Mongrel/Thin) and your worker processes (DJ/Resque/Minion/Stalker) to schedule recurring work at particular times or dates. For example, refreshing feeds on an hourly basis, or send reminder emails on a nightly basis, or generating invoices once a month on the 1st.

Test spies are a form of test double that preserves the normal four-phase unit

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.

We didn’t want to leave front-end developers in the dark when their Javascript throws errors, so we’ve added a Hoptoad notifier for Javascript!

Simple DOM-less

Run your Jasmine specs without a browser

The Holy Grail of testing for front-end development; execute browser-less, console-based, javascript + DOM code right from within your Rails test suite.

Johnson wraps JavaScript in a loving Ruby embrace. It embeds the Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript runtime as a C extension.

RubySpec is a project to write a complete, executable specification for the Ruby programming language.