Tag 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

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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

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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!

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Screen Scraping with Ruby

Useful short presentation explaining regular expressions, xpath, firebug, hpricot and screen scraping Continue reading

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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

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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

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404 error pages in Rails

I’m always trying to encourage visitors to my website to find the right information. I’m also pretty lazy with typing and want to be able to just guess at URL’s and see if they work. The new website system for … Continue reading

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Ruby on Rails SEO Tips

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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

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Getting down to coding faster

When I reboot my mac, or need to switch projects, I had quite a few clicks and mouse movements to go through. I found it rather repetitive, so I set up a shell script (in ruby) to open Firefox, Textmate, … Continue reading

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