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The future of shoulda

in Ruby added by admin, on 18/6/2010 framework ruby on rails shoulda testing

Shoulda has long been one of our most useful and popular open source projects, and it continues to serve us well as we use it daily. However, there have been some changes over the past year in the way that we use Shoulda, and these changes have led to some decisions about its future. In our post about the Rails 3 roadmap, we briefly covered the changes we made in Shoulda 2.11 as well as our intentions for Shoulda 3. However, we wanted to go over these changes in depth and explain some of our motivation.

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Lightning Talk: TATFT - Test All the F***in Time

in Ruby added by admin, on 13/6/2010 intermediate rspec ruby on rails tdd testing

Video from Ruby Hoedown 2008. If you're not testing, please stop reading this and start TATFT.

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The Road to Passenger 3: Technology Preview 1 & Performance

in Ruby added by admin, on 12/6/2010 apache2 news passenger

It has already been two years since we’ve first released Phusion Passenger. Time sure flies and we’ve come a long way since then. We were the first to implement a working Ruby web app deployment solution that integrates seamlessly in the web server, and all the features that we’ve developed over time – smart spawning and memory reduction, upload buffering, Nginx support, etc – have served us for a long time.

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Rake Tasks 101

in Ruby added by admin, on 10/6/2010 framework oo programming rake ruby on rails

I’ve been working with Rake quite a bit on my current project so I thought I’d share some beginner tips. Before I go into Rake, what is it? Rake is a Ruby-based build program. Ruby on Rails uses Rake quite a bit in it’s process. If you’ve worked on a Rails project you’ll used one, some or all of the following: rake db:create, rake gems:unpack, rake db:migrate, and rake test. Now that’s not all of Rail’s Rake tasks, just some common ones.

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Unobtrusive JavaScript in Rails 3

in Ruby added by admin, on 10/6/2010 beginner tutorials javascript ruby on rails

One of the biggest changes on the frontend side of the upcoming Rails 3 version is the replacement of the Prototype JavaScript helpers in favor of Unobtrusive JavaScript (UJS).

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DataMapper 1.0 Released

in Ruby added by admin, on 9/6/2010 news orm

I'm pleased to announce that we released DataMapper 1.0 "Vermouth" earlier today. Thank you to everyone in the community, especially this mailing list and the IRC channel. There's no way we could've reached this milestone without your encouragement and assistance.

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Foreign relations in Ruby on Rails models and forms

in Ruby added by prodevtips, on 23/4/2010 beginner tutorials framework

How to setup models and input forms to manage foreign relations in Ruby on Rails.

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File uploading in Ruby on Rails

in Ruby added by prodevtips, on 23/4/2010 beginner tutorials framework oo programming

How to upload a file in Ruby on Rails, unzip it and import its contents into the database.

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Inside Ruby on Rails: Rescuable and rescue_from

in Ruby added by admin, on 26/12/2009 exception ruby on rails

Last time I talked about the ActiveSupport Module#delegate method. Today, I want to introduce an other poweful ActiveSupport module: Rescuable, also known in the Rails ecosystem as rescue_from.

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Ruby on Rails 2 - from zero to a small application

in Ruby added by prodevtips, on 1/11/2009 activerecord ajax beginner tutorials form helpers framework oo programming ruby on rails

Describing the process of setting up RoR2 and developing a small application. The tutorial touches most aspects of RoR development, form helpers, activerecord and Ajax to name a few.

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