I was investigating ways to generate pdf’s in Ruby on Rails, but I had one enormous constraint: it had to deploy on heroku. There are two very different ways to generate pdf’s in ruby: use prawn: it is pure ruby, very powerful. It has it’s own DSL, that unleaches all the power of building a [...]
The Problem For jottinx I wrote a small piece of code that allowed to sort items using drag and drop. Of course, after writing it and making sure it works (manually), I want to make sure it keeps working. So I add a test, using cucumber. My scenario actually looks pretty straightforward: The difficult bit [...]
One recurring problem when doing Ruby on Rails development is a nested model form. Nested Model Form: a single form that contains multiple, nested models. For example a project with its tasks. A nested model form will allow you to create or edit, in 1 form, the project and each of its tasks. With the [...]
Take the following steps, by preference install this in a specific gemset These steps will create a new gemset and start using it, then install bundler and rails 3.1 (which is still pre-release at the time of writing). Now in rails 3.1 there is a new requirement: you will need a javascript runtime. You can [...]
In our team we are very happy users of RubyMine, by JetBrains. Now JetBrains also has a continuous integration server, called TeamCity, and it is also capable to run rails rake tasks. Installing TeamCity is close to a non-operation, as described on their website. Just download the package, extract, and run bin/runAll.sh start. Then you [...]
The fourth and most international of all arrrrcamp editions. Also the first paying edition. As i said in my post about the previous edition, i have been to all editions, and it is awesome to see how it has grown. The schedule was amazing, with an amazing array of international speakers, of which for me [...]
I am developing several rails projects. Some are still rails 2.3.9, and some are rails3. But using those at the same time, on the same machine can cause some trouble. I use bundles for all my projects, so the gem dependencies are managed. But still, somehow, when running my tests, i get into trouble. If [...]
I had troubles to get rcov working with the latest rspec2 release (since beta23 and now 2.0.0.rc). I got the same error every time: But luckily, somebody found the problem and it is extremely easy to fix. Just add -Ispec to your rcov task. The rake spec:rcov does not work for me (as it needs [...]
I have created a Rails3 application, started with Haml/Sass and finding it awesome. I am also trying to do unobtrusive javascript. Before, in Rails 2.3, I would have expected a remote-form to have an :update attribute, where you could specify a selector where the response of the remote method would be rendered. Now it needs [...]
For Test::Unit there is a module called skippy, that allows you to skip for instance slow tests. I was looking for a way to achieve the same in Rspec. I am currently developing against Rails 3.0.0.rc, and using rspec 2.0.0.beta.19 and could not find anything. So i asked on the rspec mailing list and got [...]
