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Rails Gems, Plugins, and Engines Articles
Sites like GitHub and RubyForge host thousands of open source gems and plugins that you can use in your Ruby on Rails application. The articles in this section provide hands-on tutorials, tips, and guides for using, extending, or even writing your own gems, plugins, and Rails engines.
Simple, Semantic Charts and Graphs for Ruby on Rails with Seer
Seer is a lightweight, semantically rich Ruby on Rails gem that provides a seamless interface to the Google Visualization API. You can easily create a graph or chart in a variety of formats and display it in your app with only a single line of code.
Rcov 0.9.0 Now Available
Announces a version 0.9.0 of the test coverage tool RCov, now with significant user interface improvements and support for custom CSS.
HTML and CSS Enhancements in RCov 0.9.0
Describes UI and UX enhancements to rcov, the code coverage tool, including including dynamic filtering, improved HTML output, and support for custom CSS.
Seer is a lightweight, semantically rich Ruby on Rails gem that provides a seamless interface to the Google Visualization API. You can easily create a graph or chart in a variety of formats and display it in your app with only a single line of code.
From 'Simple, Semantic Charts and Graphs for Ruby on Rails with Seer'
Making RCov Pretty with Custom CSS
A new fork of RCov delivers improved HTML output and support for custom CSS.
Browse RDocs in Style with RDoctor
RDoctor provides quick and convenient access to the documentation for local RubyGems and plugins, and can even be used to generate documentation for plugins in your Ruby on Rails projects.
Getting to know acts_as_versioned
I've been using Rick Olson's acts_as_versioned Rails plugin on a project and recently ran into some thngs that I thought might be worth sharing. In general, acts_as_versioned behaves well and integration has gone smoothly. The object that we wanted to ve...
My New Favorite Rails Plug-In
Acts As Enterprisey creates slow response times to simulate a difficult and complex web development effort . Best of all, you get to be the hero and resolve the performance problem at the very last moment by just uninstalling it.
File_column bug with case sensitivity
After banging my head against a wall wondering why certain image uploads would silently fail, while others succeeded, I stumbled across a file_column bug (and yes, I reported it).
Using Faker to Pre-Populate a Dev Database
I'm currently working on a project to create a travel website, and I needed to have a bunch of member profiles to use for testing the member directory. I came across a great Ruby gem called Faker which I've used to create the dummy accounts. Installation i...
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