Idol Hands: An Alpha Geek Guide to Ruby on Rails, DIY, and More

Tweetie Upgrade Message

Corey Ehmke — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:41:14 +0000

How can anyone begrudge this guy $3 for the imminent 2.0 upgrade?

Tracking Down Slow-Running Examples in RSpec

Corey Ehmke — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:05:20 +0000

As the number of tests goes up in your Rails project, you'll find yourself spending more and more time staring at the field of green dots waiting for the RSpec to finish. This article shows you how to track down slow-running examples to target for refactoring.

Favorite Snow Leopard Tips & Features

Corey Ehmke — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:09:03 +0000

I upgraded to Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) this week. Aside from some problems getting ImageMagick working, everything’s been pretty smooth. A lot has been made of the fact that the Snow Leopard upgrade is less about new features and more about enhancements to what OS X already has to offer. That being said, there’s [...]

Restore Rails Development Databases After Snow Leopard and MySQL Upgrade

Corey Ehmke — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:12:24 +0000

Provides instructions for migrating your legacy MySQL databases after upgrading to the 64-bit version of MySQL running under Snow Leopard.

RCov 0.9.0 Now Available

Corey Ehmke — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:14:19 +0000

Announces a version 0.9.0 of the test coverage tool RCov, now with significant user interface improvements and support for custom CSS.

Writing Specs for Controller Actions that Return JSON

Corey Ehmke — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:20:38 +0000

Demonstrates a method for writing RSpec tests to test output from Ruby on Rails controllers that return JSON content.

HTML and CSS Enhancements in RCov

Corey Ehmke — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:24:58 +0000

Describes UI and UX enhancements to rcov, the code coverage tool, including including dynamic filtering, improved HTML output, and support for custom CSS.

Using Aliases to DRY the Terminal: OS X Tips for Developers, Part Two

Corey Ehmke — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:15:47 +0000

Part 2 in a series devoted to organizational tips for developers, this article demonstrates how to use UNIX aliases in Mac OS X Terminal to boost productivity.

Drag and Drop With Nested Sets in Rails

Corey Ehmke — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:03:45 +0000

If you’re using Chris Bailey’s Better Nested Set (or better yet, Brandon Keeper’s Awesome Nested Set) for your Ruby on Rails models, you may one day want to implement a drag-and-drop interface to reorganize your sets. Here’s how I was able to implement it. The Model Let’s take a dead simple example: a Category model that supports [...]

Nested Sets and Single-Table Inheritance

Corey Ehmke — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:09:38 +0000

Provides a solution for problems raised by nested sets and single-table inheritance (STI).