At last year's RubyConf, Ryan Davis (zenspider) and Jacob Harris organised a RejectConf late one night. Apparently it was a great event that included the famous "Rubyists vs Pythonists" one-man stage show. With many more proposals rejected for RailsConf2007, there's even more need for a RejectConf. So, presenting... Ryan Davis, Professional...

At last year's RubyConf, Ryan Davis (zenspider) and Jacob Harris organised a RejectConf late one night. Apparently it was a great event that included the famous "Rubyists vs Pythonists" one-man stage show. With many more proposals rejected for RailsConf2007, there's even more need for a RejectConf. So, presenting... Ryan Davis, Professional...

Absolutely fantastic: The Poka-Yoke principle and how to write better software Basic Tenents of Poka-Yoke Testing: Unit Tests have to be as fast as lightning Quick and slow tests should be separated Tests must be reliable Tests must be repeatable This is the gist of what I try to teach coming on to any new project. Beautifully written. I'll...

Absolutely fantastic: The Poka-Yoke principle and how to write better software Basic Tenents of Poka-Yoke Testing: Unit Tests have to be as fast as lightning Quick and slow tests should be separated Tests must be reliable Tests must be repeatable This is the gist of what I try to teach coming on to any new project. Beautifully written. I'll...

ZenTest provides 4 different tools and 1 library: zentest, unit_diff, autotest, multiruby, and Test::Rails. ZenTest scans your target and unit-test code and writes your missing code based on simple naming rules, enabling XP at a much quicker pace. ZenTest only works with Ruby and Test::Unit. unit_diff is a command-line filter to diff expected...

ZenTest provides 4 different tools and 1 library: zentest, unit_diff, autotest, multiruby, and Test::Rails. ZenTest scans your target and unit-test code and writes your missing code based on simple naming rules, enabling XP at a much quicker pace. ZenTest only works with Ruby and Test::Unit. unit_diff is a command-line filter to diff expected...

Ruby Inline is an analog to Perl's Inline::C. Out of the box, it allows you to embed C/++ external module code in your ruby script directly. By writing simple builder classes, you can teach how to cope with new languages (fortran, perl, whatever). The code is compiled and run on the fly when needed. 3.6.3 / 2007-04-27 7 minor enhancements:...

Ruby Inline is an analog to Perl's Inline::C. Out of the box, it allows you to embed C/++ external module code in your ruby script directly. By writing simple builder classes, you can teach how to cope with new languages (fortran, perl, whatever). The code is compiled and run on the fly when needed. 3.6.3 / 2007-04-27 7 minor enhancements:...

Damn good writeup on all but the newest autotest plugins: PH7 - Getting started with Autotest - Continuous Testing Thanks to Jean-Michel Garnier for pointing this out to me!

Damn good writeup on all but the newest autotest plugins: PH7 - Getting started with Autotest - Continuous Testing Thanks to Jean-Michel Garnier for pointing this out to me!

ImageScience is a clean and happy Ruby library that generates thumbnails -- and kicks the living crap out of RMagick. Oh, and it doesn't leak memory like a sieve. :) For more information including build steps, see http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/ Changes: 1.1.2 / 2007-04-18 2 bug fixes: reports bad height/width values for resize explicitly...

ImageScience is a clean and happy Ruby library that generates thumbnails -- and kicks the living crap out of RMagick. Oh, and it doesn't leak memory like a sieve. :) For more information including build steps, see http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/ Changes: 1.1.2 / 2007-04-18 2 bug fixes: reports bad height/width values for resize explicitly...

ZenTest provides 4 different tools and 1 library: zentest, unit_diff, autotest, multiruby, and Test::Rails. ZenTest scans your target and unit-test code and writes your missing code based on simple naming rules, enabling XP at a much quicker pace. ZenTest only works with Ruby and Test::Unit. unit_diff is a command-line filter to diff expected...

ZenTest provides 4 different tools and 1 library: zentest, unit_diff, autotest, multiruby, and Test::Rails. ZenTest scans your target and unit-test code and writes your missing code based on simple naming rules, enabling XP at a much quicker pace. ZenTest only works with Ruby and Test::Unit. unit_diff is a command-line filter to diff expected...

Probably the best write-up on autotest I've seen out there: DRY up testing in Rails with Autotest: "Autotest runs your tests automatically whenever your files change. As Rails developers, we've been trained hard to test early and test often. We are also acutely aware of the DRY principle (Don't Repeat Yourself). However, these ideas don't quite...