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...
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...
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.
I’m working on a problem for a client which involves connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database from...
Cache Money is a plugin for ActiveRecord that transparently provides write-through and read-through caching functionality using Memcached. With...