Ruby Articles

• Simply RESTful… "The missing action"

  UPDATE 15/03/10: The debate continues…

  July 26, 2006

  • Javascript
  • REST
  • Rails
  • Ruby

• Ruby on Rails Exchange, London

  Last Friday, a couple of us from “SonicIQ”:http://www.soniciq.com went t...

  February 17, 2007

  • Conference
  • General
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • SonicIQ

• Building Ruby, Rails, Subversion, Mongrel, and MySQL on Mac OS X Tiger – The Easy Way

  “Dan Benjamin”:http://hivelogic.com/authors/danbenjamin recently updated...

  March 01, 2007

  • General
  • OSX
  • Rails
  • Ruby

• Rails Edge: View file extention functionality has changed

  It seems that on edge revision 6502 and later, the way that view file ex...

  May 16, 2007

  • Ajax
  • RJS
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Views

• Rails Edge: Getting your view extensions ready for edge

  Following my previous post, below is a modified version of “John Nunemak...

  May 16, 2007

  • Ajax
  • ERB
  • RJS
  • Rails
  • Rake
  • Ruby
  • Views

• A Ruby reject! that returns the rejected items

  I often need to do a reject! and return the rejected items instead of th...

  July 25, 2007

  • Hash
  • Reject
  • Ruby

• Autotest Growl Fail/Pass Smilies

  John Nunemaker posted a handy tip on “setting up autotest to work with G...

  July 30, 2007

  • Autotest
  • OSX
  • RSpec
  • Rails
  • Rake
  • Ruby
  • Testing

• Typo 4.1 slow comment posting

  Is anyone else having problems with Typo 4.1 taking ages to process new ...

  August 17, 2007

  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Typo

• Ruby Ternary operator re-written with Boolean operators

  Just noticed something interesting (well not that interesting). Ternary ...

  August 23, 2007

  • Ruby
  • Ternary
  • Tips

• Using Rcov to measure the test coverage of Rails plugins

  To view the coverage of your plugins using Rcov, first install the rcov ...

  August 24, 2007

  • Coverage
  • Plugin
  • Rails
  • Rake
  • Ruby
  • Testing

• SonicIQ Hiring! – UK, Ruby on Rails Developer Required

  We are looking for a Ruby on Rails, XHTML & CSS Developer to join ou...

  August 27, 2007

  • CSS
  • Rails
  • Recruitment
  • Ruby
  • SonicIQ

• Rails: Using Autotest with UnitRecord

  Myself and a colleague have just managed to waste away a good couple of ...

  September 05, 2007

  • Autotest
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Testing

• Stubbing case statements with Mocha

  I was happily mocking away with Mocha, then I passed a stub to a case st...

  December 04, 2008

  • Mocha
  • Ruby
  • Testing

• Unit testing by simplifying the problem: memoization

  I see unit testing as a way to test each possible snippet of functionali...

  December 18, 2008

  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Testing

• Sexy Validations in Rails 3.0

  Update: This patch has been applied but this information is out of date,...

  August 15, 2009

  • Rails
  • Ruby

• Sexy Validation in Edge Rails (Rails 3)

  I have just had my sexy validations patch accepted into Rails. Much than...

  January 08, 2010

  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Sexy Validations
  • SonicIQ

• Devise Rails Authentication Gem Rocks!

  I’ve had a set of rather bespoke requirements for authentication on a re...

  February 06, 2010

  • Authentication
  • General
  • Rails
  • Ruby

• Why I stopped using Pickle with Cucumber

  …no, not because it leaves a bitter aftertaste, I’m talking about the Pi...

  February 07, 2010

  • Cucumber
  • Pickle
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Testing

• Nokogiri for Cucumber steps that need to compare HTML attributes

  I have found on numerous occasions that I need to look at HTML attribute...

  February 14, 2010

  • Cucumber
  • Nokogiri
  • Rails
  • Ruby

• "Ramble", the Javascript Cucumber Port (work in progress)

  I am a great fan of Cucumber when it comes to integration testing, howev...

  July 04, 2010

  • Ajax
  • Cucumber
  • Javascript
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • jQuery

• Using Artifice to Stub Server Responses

  In a recent project I needed a way to fake a response from a server in m...

  January 04, 2011

  • Artifice
  • Cucumber
  • Mocks
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Stubbing
  • Testing

• Ruby Causing MacBook Pro to Run Hot

  The past couple of days the fan on my MacBook Pro has been constantly on...

  January 06, 2011

  • Mac
  • OSX
  • Rails
  • Ruby

• Fixing {{model}} placeholders in Rails 2.3 when Rails 3 is installed

  This was causing me all kinds of grief. I am running Rails 2.3 and Rails...

  January 14, 2011

  • Bug
  • Internationalization
  • Rack
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • SonicIQ

• Releasing IQ::Color

  At SonicIQ we have a number of RubyGems used internally that we haven’t ...

  January 18, 2011

  • Color
  • Convert
  • Gem
  • General
  • Ruby
  • SonicIQ

• Cucumber's "tableish" depreciated

  I was just running some cucumber features on an old project and came acr...

  November 22, 2011

  • Capybara
  • Cucumber
  • General
  • Rails
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Tableish

• Using Pow when developing Rails applications on OSX

  I heard about Pow a while ago which is “a zero-config Rack server for Ma...

  January 01, 2012

  • OSX
  • OSX
  • Pow
  • Rack
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Server

• Loving MongoDB but Missing Transactions

  I’ve been venturing into the world of MongoDB via Mongoid in a Rails app...

  January 26, 2012

  • Database
  • Database
  • MongoDB
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Schema
  • Transactions

• Using both Pow and Apache on OSX Lion

  I have written previously about using Pow for Ruby/Rails development. Po...

  March 11, 2012

  • Apache
  • Bash
  • PHP
  • Pow
  • Rails
  • Ruby

• Pow, meet rbenv

  I just ran into a problem with Pow when using rbenv for Ruby version man...

  October 11, 2012

  • Bash
  • Bundler
  • General
  • OSX
  • Rails
  • Rbenv
  • Ruby

• Announcing Tache — just enough Mustache for end users

  Full Mustache implementation with 'safe views' for end user applications.

  January 01, 2013

  • Mustache
  • Open-source
  • Ruby
  • Tache

• Handling GET remote forms with Turbolinks in Rails 6

  How to handle Ajax GET requests with Turbolinks, and render the response.

  February 20, 2019

  • ES6
  • Javascript
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Tips
  • Turbolinks

• Mina deployments causing Bundler depreciation warnings

  Using recent Bundler versions with Mina currently results in depreciations.

  March 07, 2020

  • Bundler
  • Deployment
  • Mina
  • Ruby
  • Server