There are a bunch of basic functional elements to building out a popular Rails app that I've never really...
I just finished reviewing Rails 2.3 Nested Object Forms. While a very nice and “magical” feature, I’ve got to...
The rubyforge gems model may not be perfect, but damnit people, when there’s a gem update I know that...
Reads Active Record's validations and makes them available to live client side javascript
In this article we’ve listed 7 fresh and simple tools for cross-browser compatibility testing, tools that actually make...
I did want to drop a quick picture here of their trial usage dialog that pops up as it’s...
A Rails FormBuilder with semantically rich and accessible markup.
Rails’ script/console makes it easy to fetch, view and edit your database records. But can you edit those records as...
The ability to update and close Trac tickets associated with a given repo whenever a commit is made to that...
Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client...
Flotr is a javascript plotting library based on the Prototype Javascript Framework (version 1.6.0.2 at the moment) and inspired by...
There are many wonderful things about Rails and the Rails ecosystem. A clean, well-lighted path for keeping all your...
Heroku's architecture enables deployment with nothing but Git. Deployment is fast, simple, and just works – all you do is...
PNG transparency for IE 6.
Jasmin is an assembler for the Java Virtual Machine. It takes ASCII descriptions of Java classes, written in a simple...
Hirb provides a mini view framework for console applications, designed with irb in mind.
One of the things that I always wanted to do but never got around to was to analyze a user...
This article is an introduction to testing Rails plugins.
Simplifies plugin testing by creating an isolated Rails environment that simulates its usage in a real application
After 2 1/2 years of blood, sweat, tears, and the occasional Jägermeister, I’m finally officially announcing a project I...
Unfortunately, by default plugin tests are pretty bland. They use the plain unit test suite supplied by Ruby, and not...