ruby on rails, node.js

Modern continuous testing (flexible alternative to Autotest) — Read more
http://mynyml.com/ruby/flexible-continuous-testing

Adds support for creating state machines for attributes on any Ruby class — Read more

http://www.pluginaweek.org

Simple, in-browser console to help you in your development environment


posted by Josep M. Bach
on July 25th, 2011
"Wouldn't it be nice to have an in-browser console for a Rails application?"
The funniest afternoons tend to start with questions like this.

And why stop at Rails? Let's build a Rack middleware and make it real for Sinatra, Padrino and other Rack web frameworks!

A couple weeks ago, I took the plunge and switched to vim (MacVIM, to be precise). It wasn’t the first time I tried to make the switch, and I had pretty much written it off entirely.

Why? Because the past few times I tried switching to vim, I took the advice of a master vim user, and quickly sunk into the quicksand of trying to learn a new tool. In every prior attempt, I gave vim a few days before I gave up. And every time, I managed to get virtually no work done the entire time, spending about 90 percent of my day fighting with my editor (a more charitable way to put it would be “learning my editor”).

The question is, how do we declaratively specify that richer routing such that it's actually more readable than the controllers we write today?