Can Sphinx and foxy fixtures place nicely together? Due to the way Sphinx indexing works, foxy fixtures will often slow down the indexing process drastically. This article explains how to overcome this limitation.
<% @categories.in_groups_of(2).each do |group| %> <tr> <% group.each do |category| %> <td><%=h category.name %></td> <% end %> </tr> <% end %> What are you staring at? Move along, move along.
Many Rails plugins require that certain files like images, CSS, and JavaScript get copied to the public folder during installation. The typical way to do this is add code to install.rb, which then gets executed when you first install the plugin in your Rails project. What happens when the assets … Continue reading
I’m in the middle of developing a Radiant extension for Terralien. Radius is the tagging language for Radiant, and today I figured out how to use a route from inside a custom tag class. A typical Radius tag class might look like this: module AwesomeTags include Radiant::Taggable tag “session:logout” do … Continue reading
Here’s how to identify a keyword in a block of text using a case-insensitive regular expression, and surround that keyword with an HTML tag: text = “hello world, this is a test” text.gsub!(/(WORLD)/i, “\1”) The following string is produced: hello world, this is a test Note that \1 references the … Continue reading
I just released a new gem on GitHub that provides some common validation expectations to rspec. Instead of writing specs to verify that your models are handling validation correctly, these expectations simply check that the validation is getting declared correctly in your model. For example: describe User do it_should_validate_presence_of :first_name, … Continue reading
Raleigh’s first RubyCamp is coming to Red Hat on October 18th. This is a similar format to BarCamp in that the presentations are pitched the morning of the conference, and attendees self organize the remainder of the day. Relevance will be running their popular Refactotum workshop in the morning. The … Continue reading
Lindo renders the body of an HTTP response from inside a Rails functional or integration test. It used to be a plugin, but now it’s a gem. Why? Because Rails gems are the new hotness. Now go get it.
I’m at the Ruby Hoedown in Huntsville this weekend. Being around so many brilliant geeks encouraged me to release a gem I’ve had sitting in the hopper for several weeks. finder_filter encapsulates a pattern I find myself using quite frequently in Rails. Namely, looking up an instance variable before an … Continue reading
Want to pick a certain set of key/value pairs from a Ruby hash? You might do this: hash = {:foo => “bar”, :bar => “baz”, :baz => “boo”} hash.select { |k,v| [:foo, :bar].include?(k) } # returns [[:foo, “bar”], [:bar, “baz”]] Kind of messy. We can do better by reopening the … Continue reading