zhengjia

=Navigating=
    visit('/projects')
    visit(post_comments_path(post))

=Clicking links and buttons=
    click_link('id-of-link')
    click_link('Link Text')
    click_button('Save')
    click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
    click('Button Value')

Burgestrand

# How to render rails 3.0 views within rake tasks.
#
# Description: An example of how to render a view within a rake task, 
# complete with instance variables, application & url helpers and I18n.
#
# License: X11 license
#
# Copyright (c) 2010 Kim Burgestrand <http://burgestrand.se/>
#
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy

mislav

Pagination 101

Article by Faruk Ateş, [originally on KuraFire.net][original] which is currently down

One of the most commonly overlooked and under-refined elements of a website is its pagination controls. In many cases, these are treated as an afterthought. I rarely come across a website that has decent pagination, and it always makes me wonder why so few manage to get it right. After all, I'd say that pagination is pretty easy to get right. Alas, that doesn't seem the case, so after encouragement from Chris Messina on Flickr I decided to write my Pagination 101, hopefully it'll give you some clues as to what makes good pagination.

Before going into analyzing good and bad pagination, I want to explain just what I consider to be pagination: Pagination is any kind of control system that lets the user browse through pages of search results, archives, or any other kind of continued content. Search results are the o

cheeyeo

# delay the GC - usage as below

# Spec::Runner.configure do |config|
    .....
  
#   config.before(:each) do
#     begin_gc_deferment
#   end

#   config.after(:each) do

erichurst

# MySQL.  Versions 4.1 and 5.0 are recommended.
#
# Install the MySQL driver:
#   gem install mysql2
#
# And be sure to use new-style password hashing:
#   http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/old-client.html
development:
  adapter: mysql2
  encoding: utf8

dhh

# autoload concerns
module YourApp
  class Application < Rails::Application
    config.autoload_paths += %W(
      #{config.root}/app/controllers/concerns
      #{config.root}/app/models/concerns
    )
  end
end

rishav

class AbstractModel < ActiveRecord::Base  
  self.abstract_class = true
end

class Foo < AbstractModel
end

class Bar < AbstractModel
end

lucasfais

Sublime Text 2 – Useful Shortcuts (Mac OS X)

General

⌘T	go to file
⌘⌃P	go to project
⌘R	go to methods
⌃G	go to line
⌘KB	toggle side bar
⌘⇧P	command prompt

terut

RSpec.configure do |config|
  # ...

  config.after(:all) do
    if Rails.env.test? 
      FileUtils.rm_rf(Dir["#{Rails.root}/spec/support/uploads"])
    end 
  end 
end
# put logic in this file or initalizer/carrierwave.rb

mattmanning

If you're getting this error trying to use ApacheBench on OS X Lion:

Benchmarking mwmanning.com (be patient)...apr_socket_recv: Connection reset by peer (54)

You need to download the latest beta version of Apache and rebuild ab. Here's how (assuming you have homebrew installed).

brew install pcre
tar xzvf httpd-2.3.15-beta.tar.gz
cd httpd-2.3.15-beta
./configure