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QA, Testing & Performance

rupakg — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:02:36 CDT

Quality Assurance Tools	Testing Tools	Performance Tools
Watir	Selenium	New Relic
Cucumber	Webrat	Five Runs

Plugins, Gems, Generators

rupakg — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:02:40 CST

List of plugins, gems and generators that you have installed and found it useful.

Plugins

Name Function Notes

Acts As Taggable Plugin Easy way to add tagging capabilties to AR objects and enables searching capabilities for objects. Need a table named "tags" and a model named "tag".

Acts As Authenticated Plugin Adds authentication to an application. Creates an User model, an Account controller, login and registration views along with migrations, unit and functional test scripts.

SafetyNet Plugin If the development or production database name is same as the test database, rake will never wipe your database again. Install: ruby script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/apptrain/trunk/vendor/plugins/safety_net

Comatose Plugin Comatose is a micro CMS, implemented as a Rails plugin, that is designed to be easy to embed and extend. http://code.google.com/p/comatose-plugin/
http://groups.google.com/group/comatose-plugin Installation:

From your root application folder,

run:

./script/plugin install http://comatose-plugin.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/comatose
./script/generate comatose_migration rake db:migrate

Now add this to the bottom of your config/routes.rb file:

map.comatose_admin
map.comatose_root ''

Substruct Engine The first and most robust Ruby on Rails open source e-commerce project.
A simple content management system with blogging capabilities

Manage your entire site's content from the web - no html necessary!

A simple shopping cart that's tied into Authorize.net and PayPal (must have an account)
Product and order management

Track your inventory online
View up to the minute sales reports
Integrate with fulfillment houses via XML and web services

A stunning administration interface

Create and maintain content
Create, maintain, void orders
Answer questions from your visitors

Simple CMS Simple CMS is a very easy to use and pretty advanced CMS plugin. It takes only one line of code in any views file. Demo.

Gems

Name	Function	Notes
Composite Primary Keys	Ruby on Rails does not support composite primary keys. This free software is an extension to the database layer of Rails ActiveRecords – to support composite primary keys.	Install: gem install composite_primary_keys
Gems on Rails	This Rails plugin allows you to freeze or link a gem into your rails source.	Install: gem install gemsonrails
Map By Method	Enables quick-to-type array manipulations. It works with ActiveRecord associations as well.	Install: gem install map_by_method
Cheat	Enables cheatsheets at the command-line.	Install: gem install cheat Run cheat rails to find the full list. Run cheat cheat for help on cheat.

Generators

Name	Function	Notes
New Gem Generator	newgem - an executable to create your own gems	Install: gem install newgem

Articles and Tutorials

rupakg — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:41:11 CST

List links to articles and tutorials that you have read and want to share.

Articles	Articles
19 Rails Tricks Most Rails Coders Don't Know by Peter Cooper	Ruby on Rails Migrations Explained by Steve Eichert
Testing a Non-Rails Application Using Rails by Mike Blake	New magical version of Symbol.to_proc by Dr Nic
MethodFinder for Ruby by andy@nobugs.org	Guide: Environments in Rails 1.1 by Kev
How to paginate, sort and search a table with Ajax and Rails by dev.nozav.org	Ruby on Rails Caching Tutorial by gregg
Build a secure web application with Ruby on Rails by Sonjaya Tandon	How-to: Build a Wiki in 20 Minutes by ?
Agile RSS Aggregator in Ruby by igvita.com	EC2 on Rails by Paul Dowman

Blogs and Websites

rupakg — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:53:19 CDT

Add you favorite blogs and websites

Blogs	Websites
	{ }HappyCoder - showcase of sites designed with Ruby on Rails

Books and Manuals

rupakg — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:09:44 CDT

List of helpful books and important manuals

Books

Manuals

	Agile Web Development with Rails: Second Edition, 2nd Edition by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson, with Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, James Duncan Davidson, Justin Gehtland and Andreas Schwarz Publisher: The Pragmatic Bookshelf ============================================ Buy It Price: $39.95
	Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide, Second Edition by Dave Thomas, with Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt Publisher: The Pragmatic Bookshelf ============================================ Buy It Price: $44.95
	Rails Recipes by Chad Fowler Publisher: The Pragmatic Bookshelf ============================================ Buy It Price: $32.95
	Advanced Rails Recipes: 72 New Ways to Build Stunning Rails Apps by Mike Clark and Chad Fowler Publisher: The Pragmatic Bookshelf ============================================ Coming Soon Available on or about January 15, 2008.

Ruby on Rails Manual

Ruby Standard Library Documentation

Rails Framework Documentation

Ruby Core API (RDoc) Documentation

Cheatsheets

rupakg — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:25:00 CDT

A list of all available cheatsheets

Ruby on Rails by ILoveJackDaniels (PDF, PNG)	Ruby on Rails by blainekendall.com (PDF)	Ruby on Rails Testing by topfunky (PDF)
Ruby on Rails 1.1. Reference (Web)	Active Resource by Vincent Woo (PDF, PNG)	Ruby Command-line cheats by errtheblog (GEM)
TextMate by PragmaticStudio (PDF)	Ruby by cenophobie (PDF, PNG)	Rails String Core Extension by Vincent Woo (PDF, PNG)
Ruby on Rails Quick Reference by Johnny (Web)	Rails Migrations by ? (Web)	REST Basics by topfunky (PDF)
Configuring Rails Environment by Kev (Web)	Form Helpers by Amy Hoy (PDF)	ActiveRecord Relationships by Amy Hoy (PDF)

The IRB

rupakg — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:02:01 CDT

The infamous Ruby language console.

Try IRB in your browser: http://tryruby.hobix.com/

Shortcuts in IRB console

To "require" commonly used stuff in IRB, create a .irbrc file. Basically, this file is loaded by IRB so it has all your goodness and ready to go. In case of Windows, just create a text file with any name like rgirb.rc and place it anywhere you like e.g. C:\MyRailsProjects. Make sure to include this path including the filename in the IRBRC environment variable. So, it should look like IRBRC=C:\MyRailsProjects\rgirb.rc Now, fire up a command window from anywhere and run irb. If you see the familiar IRB prompt (irb(main):001:0>), you are all set. If you get an error that says something like "unterminated string meets end of file", open up the rgirb.rc file that you had created and look closely for the single quote character used. Make sure they look like ' and not like ‘ this. Take my word, there is a difference. Fix the quote and you will have the IRB prompt.

Auto-completion in IRB: To discover methods to call. Use [TAB key 2 times] to list the methods discovered for any object. Just include require 'irb/completion' in the irbrc file.

Check out the whole article by Dr Nic.

Auto-tabbing in IRB: Just by including IRB.conf[:AUTO_INDENT]=true in the irbrc file you can get a very primitive tabbing or indentation in irb.

Home

rupakg — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:22:26 CDT

Welcome

Hello all Ruby on Rails lovers! There is so much out there that it is hard to keep track of, so this Wiki will try to keep it all together at one place. Although, we want to keep all information about Ruby on Rails at one place, we do not want to duplicate the content from other sites. If we find a useful reference, we can include a link to it under the articles, blogs or code links sections. I am a Ruby on Rails enthusiast and I would welcome you to contribute to this excellent framework by making it easy for others to learn it.

News / Announcements

Sitepoint is giving away Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications by Patrick Lenz for FREE in a PDF format.

Edition:	1st
Price:	FREE
Pages:	447
ISBN:	0-9758419-5-5
Last Updated:	January 2007

Grab it till the offfer lasts!

Net::HTTPS Vulnerability - A vulnerability on the net/https library was reported

Get details at http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2007/10/04/net-https-vulnerability/

Software and Tools

rupakg — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:14:13 CDT

A listing of useful software, utilities and tools

Generators	Libraries	Software/Websites	Utilities
RailRoad - Diagrams Generator	Graphviz - Graph Visualization Software	DZone Snippets Library	CruiseControl - continous integration in Ruby
ActiveForm - a form generator dsl	Mocha - library for mocking and stubbing used in conjunction with Test::Unit

Screencasts and Podcasts

rupakg — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:56:15 CDT

Add your favorite screencast, podcasts or vodcasts for others to enjoy.

Screencasts	Podcasts