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Web Apps

Safely Parsing Parameters from a Rails Log

A technique to parse the request parameters from a Rails log back into a Ruby hash.

Ruby

Conject – Modern Dependency Injection in Ruby

Conject is a new configurationless Dependency Injection tool for Ruby.

Web Apps

These Intermittent Test Failures Will Not Stand, Man

I rid a large test suite of intermittent failures. Here are some of the causes of the random failures and what I did to prevent them from failing.

Ruby on Rails

Improving Unit Test Iteration Speed with Rails, Spork, and Resque

Reviews a series of steps taken to make Rails tests using Spork run quickly but properly detect changes to code.

Development Practices

State in Web Applications

The problem with the CGI way is that the state of your application is bifurcated between client and server and exists in different places at different times

Ruby on Rails

A Single CI Task for Rails

Want to run database and test tasks together in continuous integration? This might help.

Web Apps

Dynamic Rails Routes with Warden Devise and Constraints

Rails recently added a constraints option to routes which allows you to dynamically define routes based on the request coming in.

Ruby on Rails

Basic Devise and Mass Assignment – Am I Missing Something?

What's the best way to handle mass assignment protection of the password field and still use Devise's built in controllers?

Web Apps

Given I Am Signed in Using capybara-webkit

Directly authenticate a user from a Cucumber step by setting a cookie using capybara-webkit.

iOS / OS X

Mobile Safari on iOS 5.1 Unexpectedly Making Cross Origin Resource Sharing Requests

My Ajax calls were failing and I saw my application logs containing many requests with the HTTP verb "OPTIONS". I narrowed it to oddities with PDFs on Safari.

Web Apps

Say it Again: CRUD is not REST

Nick Sutterer makes a great case for separating CRUD from REST, and also touches on the important interface constraints of the REST architectural style.

Ruby on Rails

Integrating Paypal Express with Rails 3.1 – Part 3

This post describes how to define the PaypalExpress#purchase action so that we would get the paypal_express_purchase_path.