Will Rails 3 obstruct plugin innovation? - Gem Session
Where there was once a consistent API to manipulate and hook into the lifecycle of a persistent object, plugins must now perform very careful checks whether an object supports more advanced traits like transactions, observers or dirty attribute tracking.
Handy: A regex that validates all valid email addresses (give or take) - Axon Flux // A Ruby on Rails Blog
/^([\w!#$%&'*+-/=?^`{|}~]+.)*[\w!#$%&'*+-/=?^`{|}~]+@((((([a-z0-9]{1}[a-z0-9-]{0,62}[a-z0-9]{1})|[a-z]).)+[a-z]{2,6})|(\d{1,3}.){3}\d{1,3}(:\d{1,5})?)$/i
Creating Filesystems with Ruby and FUSE
The FUSE project allows you to create filesystems in userspace - which means you can create a filesystem without having to get your hands dirty and modify your kernel source. This is insanely cool, and can be used for many purposes. Here we're going to look at using the Ruby bindings to create a simple filesystem.
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.
Dokan » Blog Archive » Dokan Ruby 0.1.4 released
Dokan Ruby is a Ruby extension library to write a file system for Windows. This extension also has compatible API with FuseFS (Ruby extension for FUSE). You can write a file system only in 25 lines.
Rethinking PDF Creation in Ruby
We're excited to announce PDFKit, an open source library that makes working with wkhtmltopdf a snap.
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.
ileitch's hijack at master - GitHub
Provides an irb session to an existing ruby process.
Introducing Isolate
The basics of Isolate, a tool for replacing Bundler in gem management.
Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example | by Michael Hartl
A thorough introduction to web development with Ruby on Rails
adamwiggins's clockwork at master - GitHub
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.
thoughtbot's bourne at master - GitHub
Test spies are a form of test double that preserves the normal four-phase unit
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.
Hoptoad and Javascript, Sitting in a Tree, S-E-N-D-I-N-G - GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS
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!
pivotalexperimental's jazz_money at master - GitHub
Run your Jasmine specs without a browser
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.
jbarnette's johnson at master - GitHub
Johnson wraps JavaScript in a loving Ruby embrace. It embeds the Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript runtime as a C extension.
RubySpec - The Standard You Trust
RubySpec is a project to write a complete, executable specification for the Ruby programming language.