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Serialized hashes with partial_updates in Rails 2.1

June 2, 2008

In Rails 2.1, they added partial updates - which is a great idea and a long time coming. This makes ActiveRecord only updates the parts of a model that has actually changed, and also gives you the ability to see if a field (or a record) has changed since retrieving it from the database. (via mode…

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Rails Deployment

January 14, 2008

There is a post on RubyInside today that spawned quite the cascade of comments on the topic of deploying rails. While a lot to wade through, there are some interesting comments buried in there. I still find it strange that everyone is clamoring for a solution, while ignoring one that exists because …

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CruiseControl and custom cruise tasks running in production

September 20, 2007

I found a fun gotcha! today with CruiseControl - if you create a custom cruise task you have to set the RAILS_ENV AND ENV["RAILS_ENV"] to test.

If you do not, CruiseControl will run against your production database. Before CruiseControl invokes it's own built-in cruise task it sets the RAILS_ENV to …

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Netbeans for the win!

September 7, 2007

I have been meaning to write an article about netbeans + ruby for awhile, and anyone who knows me has probably heard me talk about it - it's great, it's fast, and it actually just works. However, somebody else saved me the trouble, infrid over at http://lifeonrails.org wrote an epic post about it, …

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RSpec/Rails view specs and helpers

August 21, 2007

I ran into a situation today where I had to mock out a helper method in a view spec. After a bit of poking around came across Jake Scruggs blog where he has a post titled, appropriately enough, Mocking/Stubbing partials and helper methods in RSpec view tests.

For the lazy, it's just:

@controller.te…

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RSpec on Rails rake task for Recent Specs

June 5, 2007

As our number of specs grow I started to miss the test:recent functionality, so I created a simple little rake task to make it work with RSpec. Drop this in lib/tasks, I called it spec_recent.rake.

require 'spec/rake/spectask'
# Grab recently touched specs
def recent_specs(touched_since)
  recent_s…

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Pluginizing ActionWebService to work on Edge rails

June 4, 2007

I recently updated a project at work to Edge rails to take advantage of ActiveResource - as a result, ActionWebService went away. We've known for a long time AWS was on it's way out, but I was hoping a plugin version would be created prior to it's removal - which in all fairness may still be the cas…

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Enforcing spec coverage with CruiseControl, RCov, and RSpec

June 1, 2007

Now that Alex has gotten CruiseControl.rb setup setup at work, I wanted to use it to enforce good test coverage - and I wanted the output to look good doing it. Turns out this isn't that hard, but requires a few things:

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CodeRay helper for Rails

May 9, 2007

While I'm using Markdown for formatting blog entries, I wanted to have some decent syntax highlighting support as well. After looking around I decided to use CodeRay. It's fast, customizable, has nice output, and is easy to extend. All I had to do to make it work with Rails was to create a helper. I…

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