Unfortunately, by default plugin tests are pretty bland. They use the plain unit test suite supplied by Ruby, and not...
I’m working on a problem for a client which involves connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database from...
SWFRIP is a Macromedia Flash resource extractor and editor. It can save resources in various formats, including SVG conversion from...
Finish the remainder of the ActiveModel todo list (observers, callbacks, validations, scoping, and serialization) in addition to associations. Also wire...
Record Filter gives you the full power of ActiveRecord's query building tools with a heaping helping of DSL thrown...
Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the...
Capistrano recipes for database backups before migrations, passenger deployment strategy, release tagging in Git repos.
Read_from_slave for Rails enables database reads from a slave database, while writes continue to go to the master
HotKey provides functionality similar to the accesskey attribute, but has many enhancements that allow for more granular control when creating...
Write declarative tests using nested contexts without performance penalties. Contest is less than 100 lines of code and gets the...
The idea behind scrooge is both surprisingly simple and powerful: instead of forcing the developer to manually specify each attribute...
validate( "email".is("required").andIsAn("email") );
Unit tests are to refactoring like a drop cloth is to painting. Both feel like more work at first but...
After some deliberation, we decided to implement a "schema-less" storage system on top of MySQL rather than use a...
Store schema-less data in MySQL.
An ActionMailer delivery method to save mails as files in a directory.
So here’s an overview of how things are going to work in Rails 3.
Ambitious Query Indexer is a Rails plugin to identify database indexes that are missing. Rather than looking at tables and...
The Web of Data has many equivalent URIs.
A simple implementation of an Identity Mapper for Active Record.
They don't teach you this in college, but the fundamental theorem of the software industry is the idea that...
Next in our series on not shooting yourself in the foot: Doing a sudo shutdown -h now on the main...
Asset Fingerprint Plugin for Ruby on Rails - allows you to use md5 or timestamps in query string or in asset...
File upload solution that supports form roundtrips when a validation fails.