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Rails bookmarks

• nulldb/nulldb - GitHub
  NullDB is the Null Object pattern as applied to ActiveRecord database adapters. It is a database backend that translates database interactions into no-ops. Using NullDB enables you to test your model business logic - including after_save hooks - without ever touching a real database. Limitations - It is not an in-memory database. Finds will not work. Neither will reload, currently. Test fixtures won’t work either, for obvious reasons. - It has only the most rudimentery schema/migration support. Complex migrations will probably break it. - Lots of other things probably don’t work. Patches welcome!
• pyromaniac/hoof - GitHub
  Linux version of the 37 signal zero-config local development server: github.com/37signals/pow/
• Crowd Interactive Tech Blog :: Twitter's Bootstrap in the Asset Pipeline
  Adding your own css classes to the Bootstrap mixins and have Rails Asses pipeline compile it for you.
• jamesgolick/rollout - GitHub
  Ruby gem that lets you roll out features gradually over groups of users so you can first test new features on a small subgroup of users first (possibly identified als early adopters?).
• TestFirst.org - The Home of Test-First Teaching
  "Test-First Teaching provides a fundamental shift in the way people learn software development. Initially, it helps the student focus on learning very basic syntax, able to independently confirm when they have successfully completed an exercise. That immediate feedback is valuable for cementing knowledge. Test-first teaching also teaches an understanding of all of the arcane error messages in a low stress situation. The first thing you see, before you have written a line of code, is an error. Then you discover what you need to do to fix that error. Test-first teaching helps people intuitively understand that mistakes are a natural part of the software development process."
• Laser | Project | Carbonica
  "LASER is a tool to analyze the lexical structure and semantic meaning of your Ruby programs. It will be able to discover bugs that Ruby only encounters at run-time, and it can discover properties about your code that no pre-existing tools can, such as whether a given block of code raises, which methods are private, if a method call could require a block, and so on. It provides warnings as well as errors for potentially error-prone code"
• Set Up An Ubuntu Local Development Machine For Ruby On Rails - Smashing Coding | Smashing Coding
  "So, you want to develop Ruby on Rails applications? While loads of (introductory) tutorials are available for developing Ruby on Rails applications, there seems to be some uncertainty about setting up a lean and up-to-date local development environment. This tutorial will guide you through the steps of setting up an Ubuntu local development machine for Ruby on Rails. "
• joshfng/railsready - GitHub
  "Ruby and Rails setup script for Linux and OSX Distros supported: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 10.10 and 11.04 CentOS 5 (utilizes the Fedora EPEL repo) OSX (requires XCode to be installed)"
• ActiveModel: Make Any Ruby Object Feel Like ActiveRecord « Katz Got Your Tongue?
  "there are two major elements to ActiveModel. The first is the ActiveModel API, the interface that models must adhere to in order to gain compatibility with ActionPack’s helpers. I’ll be talking more about that soon, but for now, the important thing about the ActiveModel API is that your models can become ActiveModel compliant without using a single line of Rails code."
• Developing Facebook applications for Ruby on Rails
  How to get started with a Facebook app using Rails: good overview of the state of affairs anno 2011...