ruby
Building a ruby gem these days is really, really easy. Bundler provides a great framework generator to get you started. Bundler also lets you install a gem straight from a github repository, so now is the time to say goodbye to your git submodules and start packaging your code into
rails
Bundler makes it very easy to point to a gem folder on your system, and I definitely recommend this approach a lot more. The plugin can be a gem that we can just require, and it can specify its own dependencies in its .gemspec file. But if you really don&
rspec
Problem: uninitialized constant RSpec::Rake Solution: You are using Rails 3 (and RSpec 2), and trying to define a custom rake task with Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new Instead, do: RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:spec) do |t| ... and make sure to change: t.spec_files = FileList['spec/**/*_spec.rb'
bugfixes
Every programmer makes mistakes.. But every so often though, you make those mistakes that really mess things up. I just made two of them, and feel like a right n00b. Both mistakes simply involved overwriting ActiveRecord methods. The first time, I made an update method in my model. And just
javascript
If you are using an older version of jqGrid because it comes nicely wrapped up in the jquery-grid-rails-plugin, keep in mind that all the demo code is written with the new API introduced in version 3.6. Fortunately, most of the demo code can still be reused with our version
ruby
Been a fan of jqgrid for quite some time, but wasn't looking forward to the struggle of getting it to work with Rails. Thankfully, someones already done it for me: http://www.2dconcept.com/jquery-grid-rails-plugin It did take a little while to debug some things that were going