- Launching Ruby on Rails projects, the video - Robby Russell's talk from Rails Underground is now available as a video.
- Absolute dates make tests brittle - Great little tip if your using fixtures to test your Rails app.
- Ninja testing your Rails plugins - I'll be using this guide to write my first plugin soon.
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My name is Matthew Lang, and I'm a software developer based just outside Glasgow in the UK.
I'm very interested in using agile methodologies such as XP to deliver projects with languages such as Ruby and open source frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and Sinatra.
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Snippets #55
Posted on 12th of November, 2009
Snippets #42
- rewteet - This is a Sinatra application template that allows you to build a key-based aggregator application for Twitter. If your also curious about how some Sinatra applications are set up with regards to things like testing, then this is a great application to delve into.
- dotiw - A plugin for Rails that provides more accurate distance of time in words.
- Planting the seeds - Robby Russell has a great article covering the new seed data feature in Rails.
Posted on 8th of September, 2009
Snippets #17
- Internbot Chronicles #4: CI & Test Metrics - Nick Quaranto at Thoughtbot shares his notes on how they’re setting up continuous integration and automated code checking.
- Sortable - A new plugin to replace acts_as_list.
- ADSF - A dead simple fileserver you can launch from any directory.
- Sketches - Create and edit Ruby code while having it reloaded in your IRB. Nice!
Posted on 1st of June, 2009
Snippets #16
- Mac-friendly Autotest - A better performing Autotest gem which doesn’t hog resources from your Mac.
- Stories - A story and user acceptance test library for the Contest framework. If BDD is your thing, then this might be worth a look.
- Hammock - A Rails plugin for eliminating code in a RESTful manner. Looks like a great way to get skinny controllers.
Posted on 28th of May, 2009
