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Super Dooper Ruby and Rails Cheetsheets gem!

over 5 years ago by TAD on RubyNoob.
Imagine a world, if you will, of plain text cheat sheets accessible from any Ruby capable command line. That world is the Internet. Try it out: err.the_blog...

How to get Lightbox working in a rendered partial in Rails using RJS

over 5 years ago by TAD on RubyNoob.
This is going to be kind of weird and maybe difficult to explain. Tonight I was fooling with a website that I'm working on. On the small, relatively static...

How to do friendly date formatting in Ruby

over 5 years ago by TAD on RubyNoob.
At lunch today I wanted to add today's date onto a Rails page. works relatively well enough, except it gives the date in a pretty ugly format... like...

How To: My first cron job on Dreamhost

over 5 years ago by TAD on RubyNoob.
Tonight I decided to figure out how to schedule jobs to run on my Dreamhost account. I'm still a unix noob, but I'm learning. Here's the wiki article...

Getting a handle on BDD

over 5 years ago by TAD on RubyNoob.
R'spec! Since my last post, I've decided to take a good look at Behavior Driven Development. Since both of the articles I linked to referred to the rspec...

Two articles on Rails Testing using BDD and RSpec

over 5 years ago by TAD on RubyNoob.
Going through today's Ruby/Rails news I noticed two pretty useful looking articles about testing. Both cover testing using BDD and RSpec. My first question...

Rails Testing CheatSheet

over 5 years ago by TAD on RubyNoob.
Ruby, Rails, Test::Rails Cheat Sheet | Ruby on Rails for Newbies In the same vein as the previous posting, here's a great cheat sheet from Nuby on...

Excellent tutorial on Rails testing

over 5 years ago by TAD on RubyNoob.
Fear of Fish—Testing makes you a cool kid This is my favorite type of tutorial - it takes you from the creation of a new app all the way through testing...

RubyInside's Contest Winners

over 5 years ago by TAD on RubyNoob.
Final Entries in the Ruby Inside $100 + $15 Contest This link goes to a list of 30 excellent ruby tutorials which were chosen as finalists in a contest...

How To Use the Flickr API With a Simple Ruby Script

over 5 years ago by TAD on RubyNoob.
Using the open-uri and rexml classes, it's easy to connect to a REST-API and then do meaningful stuff with the results. It's even easier if you're using...