Gwyn Morfey's Rails Notes

This is now my scratchpad for notes that I’ll eventually turn into proper wiki articles. It’s public so that it’ll be useful in the meantime.

Merb plugins (gems): merbful_auth: works, but terrible, terrible code. Do not use.

paperclip: Doesn’t work.

If ssh agent forwarding doesn’t work in capistrano, update your net-ssh gem.

Given(“I am an activated, logged in user”) do
Given(“I am a user”)
Given(“I am activated”)
Given(“I am logged in”)
end

c[:session_store] = ‘memory’ if Merb.environment == “test”

Foo.class_eval do
def bar
puts “reopened class and replaced instance method”
end
end

Mocha can mock an instance method on all instances of a class. RSpec can’t.

You can take the boredom out of peepcode by running it at 1.5x speed using Quicktime.

RFC4366 (implemented in nginx, firefox 2, etc) makes it possible to run multiple SSL sites off a single ip/port

Forget sshfs; transmit is the best way to hack files on a live site.

rspec: integrate_views OR DIE!!