Learn everything you need to know about Scaling your Rails app through 13 informative Screencasts produced by Gregg Pollack with...

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...

Web 2.0 sites have lots of tiny javascript/css files, which causes one extra round trip per file to the server...

A couple of Railsconfs ago, Courtenay and I did indeed discuss

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

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...

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...

Hirb provides a mini view framework for console applications, designed with irb in mind.

This article is an introduction to testing Rails plugins.

Simplifies plugin testing by creating an isolated Rails environment that simulates its usage in a real application

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...