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Category Archives: rubyonrails
The Simplest Possible Cucumber Test
I’m not really that good at testing. So what, so are a lot of people. Having some tests is better than none! And, the way testing tutorials are written can seem really complex and scary. Today I started thinking about … Continue reading
Posted in Technology, Web Design, rubyonrails
Tagged cucumber, rails, ruby, ruby on rails, rubyonrails, testing, webdesign, webdevelopment
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The Pragmatic Programmer
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt My rating: 4 of 5 stars A little dated if you’re using a framework like Ruby on Rails, but definitely worth reviewing and further study. Lots of great practices. I … Continue reading
Render error when upgrading from rails 1 to rails 2
When upgrading an old ruby on rails 1.2 application to rails 2.2.2, I ran into a frustrating, somewhat un-google-able error, so I’m writing down the solution here. If you get a render with invalid options error, the solution is to … Continue reading
Ruby on Rails MySQL Admin
This is about to kick phpMyAdmin’s ass: rbDB web-based mysql admin with conventions from Jessy Bernal on Vimeo. UPDATE: it’s on GitHub now! Try it out!
Posted in Web Design, rubyonrails
Tagged mysql, phpmyadmin, ruby on rails, rubyonrails, Web Design
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Screen Scraping with Ruby
Useful short presentation explaining regular expressions, xpath, firebug, hpricot and screen scraping Continue reading
Posted in Bookmarks, rubyonrails
Tagged Bookmarks, rails, ruby, rubyonrails, screenscraping
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Open Source Rails
Open Source Rails features an easy to browse gallery of the best open source / freely available rails projects.
Each project features screenshots plus community driven comments, ratings, and bookmarking.
If you have a Rails project that you're considering to release to the community, please let us know and we'll help you get featured, and hopefully build up a community to help build and extend your project. Continue reading
zena
zena is a state-of-the-art CMS (content managment system) based on Ruby on Rails with a focus on usability, ease of customization and web 2.0 goodness (application like behaviour). Continue reading
Ruby on Rails Code Quality Checklist – Articles – Matthew Moore
In Matt Moore's experience, Ruby and Ruby on Rails has been one of the most difficult language/framework combinations to truly master. For someone who grew up on C, C++ & Java in the majority of their training, Ruby has hugely different (and better!) ways of OO design, and the Rails framework has a lot of opinions to be understood and remembered. As long as it's taken to master them to the level he has – and he's sure there's still a long way to go – he loves it and won't be going back. Continue reading
Posted in Bookmarks, Web Design, rubyonrails
Tagged bestpractice, Bookmarks, code, quality, rails, ruby, rubyonrails
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