Alex Gorbatchev

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Rails

Plain Text RSpec Stories on Rails.
Story Runner in Plain English.
In-browser editor for RSpec stories.
A Ruby on Rails OpenID Server.

Software

The 3 Rules of Self-Marketing.

I looked all over and couldn’t find a bash script which could check and if missing install a list of gems. I had to hack my own up:
GEMS=( `cat gems.txt` ) # gems.txt has one gem name per line

for gem in “${GEMS[@]}”; do
found=`gem list $gem | grep -i $gem`
if [ "$found" [...]

Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page.
GUI edition

Shoes - a lightweight Ruby interface to Windows, Linux and OSX applications. Best for small utilities. (into one, two and three by Juxie)
Cheri::Swing - a full blow JRuby builder style interface to Java’s [...]

Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page.
Rails

Ruby 101: Naming Conventions.
Zero to Riding the Rails in Four Months.
Default Order Plugin - order_by :fields => ['last_name', 'first_name'], :mode => :desc

Ruby

Mailtrap - dummy SMTP server for testing your emails.
New netbeans update from [...]

Sometimes you want to focus on just one example in your RSpec file. I had to do this quite often in the last 3 days and I got tired of commenting out stuff back and forth. So, I give you “it_only” example.
module Spec
module DSL
module BehaviourEval
[...]

Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page.
Ruby

Changes in Ruby 1.9, Oct. 07 update.
SWX Ruby updates to Alpha 0.1.1, has new screencast.

Web Development

A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins.
Five resourced to learn about BDD.

Misc

How to Take Control of Your Day When You’re [...]

Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page.
Rails

Multiple Database Connections in Ruby on Rails.
Payment Processing in Rails.
Mocking/Stubbing partials and helper methods in RSpec view specs.
Getting started with Autotest - Continuous Testing.

Web Development

The resurrection of downloadable Web fonts.

Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page.

Rails

jMaki on Rails screen cast.
Rails 1.2.4: Maintenance release.
“How I Learned to Love Testing” presentation.
deepTest - running test in multiple threads for performance sake (via).

Ruby

Many Skinny Methods - readability vs. number of lines.
Removing elements with [...]

I’ve recently started experimenting with using Ubuntu for my Ruby development. Some of the Gems like JSON and HPricot have extension compilation step which doesn’t work on a default Ubuntu installation.
Here are a few steps that you need to get it to work.

Open up Synaptic Package Manager from System > Preferences
Search for “ruby1.8-dev”, right click [...]