RubyFlow - I'm glad to say http://rails-bestpractices.com is now launched. It's a website that provides the best practices to write rails codes and anybody can share his/her practices. It's also the home page of rails_best_practices gem. ihower is also the administrator who is the presenter of Rails Best Practices presentation. Welcome to share your practices here.

RubyFlow - It can be daunting for a Rails newbie to know where to start and what to learn in what order. The Roadmap for Learning Rails helps beginners bootstrap their Rails learning.

RubyFlow - If you're using Vim or JEdit and you envy Textmate users for their good looking, dark color schemes check out Coloration color scheme converter.

Envy Labs - This week Nate, Jacob, Thomas and I are at OSCON where we taught our Rails 3 tutorial on Tuesday. Yesterday at the conference I was interviewed in the OSCON booth, the results of which you can see below: View on YouTube Related posts:5 Days of OSCON – Day 15 Days of OSCON – Day 25 Days [...] Related posts:

1. 5 Days of OSCON – Day 1
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3. 5 Days of OSCON – Day 5

RubyFlow - We just announced the speakers for Ruby Hoedown, but we've also announced the Nuby Hoedown, a one day, 8 hour training/refresher set for Rubyists. We'll walk through some core Ruby language skills, RubyGem authoring, Git skills, and more all led by experts like David A. Black and Scott Chacon. Check it out and register now for FREE!

RubyFlow - Tests, we generally like them for our code. Remember, capistrano recipes are code too, so please, be sure to test them. I put some notes and codes to help get started with capistrano testing with rspec: capistrano-spec

RubyFlow - Database isolation levels, introduced in the context of Rails applications, with the practical application demonstrated with acts_as_list.

RubyFlow - I just launched ScopedSearch gem for Rails 3. With it you can easily implement search forms and do column ordering based on your models scopes. Compatible with ActiveRecord and Mongoid! See the example in the README...

DIG RUBY - Rails UnitTest in file test/test_helper.rb in class ActiveSupport::TestCase add   teardown :clean_mongodb   def clean_mongodb     puts "cleaning mongodb...."     Mongoid.database.collections.each do |collection|       unless collection.name =~ /^system\./         collection.remove       end     end     puts "finished cleaning mongodb."   end Rspec in file spec/spec_helper.rb, in Spec::Runner.configure add config.after(:each) do     puts "cleaning mongodb...."     Mongoid.database.collections.each do [...]

RubyFlow - gem_snapshot is a small rubygems plugin that allows you to dump a snapshot of your installed gems to a YAML file, and then install the gems in the snapshot later on (probably on a different computer).