Representable gem released: Improve your REST representation code!

{{{ The “representable gem”:https://github.com/apotonick/representable helps to keep parsing and rendering representations in one place. Once defined, it gives your model @#to_xml@, @#from_xml@ and more. The initial version was released today, let’s see how it helps *cleaning up your representation code*. h3. Let’s write a Blog app! Since your imaginery blog app has a REST API…

Testing your Rails 3 Engine sitting in a Gem

or Making your Rails gem suck less When people refer to gems they usually think of new methods and classes popping up in your Ruby application as soon as you require the gem. However, with Rails 3, gems (and plugins) can also add behaviour, controllers, views, routes and all the other well-known pieces of Rails…

Releasing Gems self-opinionated

Packaging and releasing gems is easy. Many people simply use jeweler to handle all the tiresome tasks. Others try to avoid 3rd-party tools and don’t take any “opinionated” shortcuts at all. Not that I would care about opinions, anyway. However, I catched myself using a mixture of all ruby release tools, so here’s my current…

Receiving Pingbacks on Rails sites

If you’ve never heard of pingbacks before, you’re out. Go home. Ok, pingbacks are this mysterical feature when you write on your blog A and refer to some article on blog B. After you publish your article on blog A, something happens behind the curtain. Suddenly there’s a new comment on the blog B article…