Rio is a facade for most of the standard ruby classes that deal with I/O; providing a simple, intuitive, succinct...
It's important, however, that his wonderful code live on, and we need your help to do so. We've...
You want to try out all of the different ruby interpreters and versions including different patchlevels, but you don't...
Celerity is a JRuby wrapper around HtmlUnit – a headless Java browser with JavaScript support. It provides a simple API for...
Another ActiveModel alternative.
Recently I've been made aware of people inside US Government organizations using my Ruby on Rails Security presentation as...
The same problem happened with address, which was specified to mean only the contact information for the author of a...
I brought up the question whether tests should call the translation API when checking for the presence of a string...
Amidst my 400 unread Boing Boing links are probably ten or fifteen that are probably real gems. But I’ll...
I've recently moved from using Parallels for browser testing to Sun's Open Source VirtualBox. Here's a walkthrough...
On any page accessed with SSL, all Ajax requests must use SSL, or they will fail. To make this happen...
Passing the --profile flag to RSpec produces some additional output, namely the running times of the ten slowest examples in...
Background allows you to add some context to the scenarios in a single feature. A Background is much like a...
The idea behind scrooge is both surprisingly simple and powerful: instead of forcing the developer to manually specify each attribute...
Deadweight is RCov for CSS, kind of. Given a set of stylesheets and a set of URLs, it determines which...
decided to go fixtureless with Shoulda + Factory Girl. All good, except one problem. Slow as fuck tests. So here’s...
Stop writing your own random string generators. Rails does this for you.
Google Chrome Frame is a plugin for Internet Explorer that embeds the entire Chrome web rendering engine inside IE.
Apple's random rules for iPhone app approval are a recipe for trivial apps and alienated developers
Concerns is a simple Rails plugin that provides you with a simple way to organise your Controllers, Models and Mailers...
DevIL is a fast and lightweight image library that supports the loading and saving of images in almost any graphics...