Squirrel is an enhancement for ActiveRecord’s find method that allows programmers to query the database using a more Rubyish...
ObjectiveResource is an Objective-C port of Ruby on Rails' ActiveResource. It provides a way to serialize objects to and...
If you know Ruby and you want to write applications for Mac OS X or the iPhone, you’re in...
Web 2.0 sites have lots of tiny javascript/css files, which causes one extra round trip per file to the server...
theman is a super simple "framework" that uses god/rufus-scheduler to create long running workers that do things at certain times...
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...
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...
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...
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...