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Sake Bomb!
Using rake system wide with the sake gem. Also includes a variety of useful rake tasks.
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Vendor Everything
Explains how to use gem unpack to put all your gems into the vendor directory, so other developers and your test and production servers are sure to have the same gems.
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Documentation (6)
- RubyGems Manuals
Reference manual for RubyGems
- Installing RMagick on OS X using MacPorts
Instructions for installing RMagick on Mac OS X, including how to use MacPorts to get ImageMagick running. Part of the larger documentation set for RMagick.
- Libxml-Ruby API
- Log4r - Manual
Log4r is a comprehensive and flexible logging library written in Ruby for use in Ruby programs. It features a hierarchical logging system of any number of levels, custom level names, logger inheritance, multiple output destinations, execution tracing, custom formatting, thread safteyness, XML and YAML configuration, and more.
- OSX Leopard mysql gem for ruby
How to compile the mysql gem when using the Mac Ports install of MySQL and the native Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) Ruby and Rails (and gems) installs.
- RSpec Homepage
RSpec is a Behaviour Driven Development framework for Ruby. It provides two frameworks for writing and executing examples of how your Ruby application should behave: a Story Framework for describing behaviour at the application level; and a Spec Framework for describing behaviour at the object level.
Software (5)
- annotate_models plugin
Provides a rake tasks that adds comments to all your models listing the database columns.
- Ruby Facets
Facets is a huge collection of Ruby libraries. Before you write something that addresses a common problem, look here to see if it has already been done for you.
- Flex Mock
FlexMock is a simple, but flexible, mock object library for Ruby unit testing that integrates easily with Test::Unit.
- Mocha
Official Mocha Readme
- Preview Releases: Net::SSH and friends
Announcin preview releases of Net::SSH, Net::SFTP, and Net::SCP
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Ruby Inside
An active and authoritative blog about Ruby techniques, from the author of Beginning Ruby.
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Zen and the Art of Programming
This blog includes a useful weekly post titled "This week in Ruby" with a roundup of the latest Ruby-related news.
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ChadFowler.com
Author of Rails Recipies, co-founder of Ruby Central, and one of the leaders of the Ruby community.
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Headius
One of the primary developers of JRuby.
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