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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
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The ability to update and close Trac tickets associated with a given repo whenever a commit is made to that...
There are many wonderful things about Rails and the Rails ecosystem. A clean, well-lighted path for keeping all your...
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One of the things that I always wanted to do but never got around to was to analyze a user...
Sprockets is a Ruby library that preprocesses and concatenates JavaScript source files. It takes any number of source files and...
This article is an introduction to testing Rails plugins.
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...
Central point to collect locale data for use in Ruby on Rails.