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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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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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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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Ruby on Rails 2 scaffolding
in Python added by prodevtips, on 28/3/2009 beginner tutorials ruby on rails
Basic tutorial on how scaffolding in RoR 2 can work.
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Rails 2.0: It's done!
in Ruby added by admin, on 9/12/2007 news ruby on rails
Rails 2.0 is finally finished after about a year in the making. This is a fantastic release that's absolutely stuffed with great new features, loads of fixes, and an incredible amount of polish. We've even taken a fair bit of cruft out to make the whole package more coherent and lean.
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Ruby on Rails on Oracle: A Simple Tutorial
in Ruby added by admin, on 29/11/2007 database intermediate oracle ruby on rails
This article is not intended to be a booster piece for Rails nor is it an expose. It's simply an introduction to the technology. It contains both praise and criticism. At times the criticism might appear a bit heavy handed (especially to Rails enthusiasts), but don't be fooled. Using any Web application framework is going to be tricky, whether it's J2EE, ASP.NET, or PHP. In the long run, you can be a lot more productive with Rails than you can be with many other Web application development platforms, but it takes time to learn the ropes.
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Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X
in Ruby added by admin, on 18/11/2007 beginner tutorials framework ruby on rails
It should come as no surprise that Mac OS X is a favored platform for Rails development. Rails and its supporting cast of web servers and databases thrive on the rich Mac OS X environment. A popular text editor used by many Rails programmers is TextMate, a Cocoa application. And all members of the Rails core development team work with Macs.
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Using script.aculo.us in Ruby on Rails
in Ruby added by admin, on 25/10/2007 beginner tutorials javascript ruby on rails
Script.aculo.us is indeed spectaculous. By writing a few lines of ROR code, you could create UI effects that reqiured great manipulation in javascript using DOM.
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Object-relation mapping put on rails
in Ruby added by admin, on 25/10/2007 active record beginner tutorials database reference ruby on rails
Active Record connects business objects and database tables to create a persistable domain model where logic and data are presented in one wrapping. It's an implementation of the object-relational mapping (ORM) pattern by the same name as described by Martin Fowler
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Rolling with Ruby on Rails, Part 2
in Ruby added by admin, on 21/10/2007 beginner tutorials oo programming ruby on rails
In Rolling with Ruby on Rails, I barely scratched the surface of what you can do with Ruby on Rails. I didn't talk about data validation or database transactions, and I did not mention callbacks, unit testing, or caching. There was hardly a mention of the many helpers that Rails includes to make your life easier. I can't really do justice to all of these topics in the space of this article, but I will go into details on some of them and present a brief overview of the rest, with links to more detailed information.
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Rolling with Ruby on Rails
in Ruby added by admin, on 21/10/2007 beginner tutorials ruby on rails setup
Maybe you've heard about Ruby on Rails, the super productive new way to develop web applications, and you'd like to give it a try, but you don't know anything about Ruby or Rails. This article steps through the development of a web application using Rails. It won't teach you how to program in Ruby, but if you already know another object-oriented programming language, you should have no problem following along (and at the end you can find links on learning Ruby).
Let's answer a couple of burning questions before rolling up our sleeves to build a web application!