This page is a work in progress as I review over 500 previous posts.
Tools
I’m always looking for or creating my own tools to help with Ruby development. Sometimes these tools become useful enough that I’ll share them or open source them.
- Kindle – Ruby scripts to manage my Kindle notes
- Capture a Screenshot of a Full Website With Ruby
- Fail Loudly with osd_cat and autotest
- Deploy WordPress Automatically with Capistrano
- Why I don’t use HAML or SASS
- Use Hash#except to easily test Rails validations
- Redmine Railroaded – Model and Controller diagrams
- Fail Loudly with osd_cat and autotest
- Organizing Rake Using Namespaces
Testing
Every Ruby developer loves testing right? Right?
- Testing exceptions in Rails
- Testing Rails Plugins on All Cores with parallel_tests
- Rails Testing Optimization – Benchmark your tests
- Correcting your rcov report for untested code
Ruby and Rails
Grab bag of miscellaneous Ruby posts and tips I’ve written over the years.
- 17 Rack Middlewares I want to use
- Ruby’s Array splat operator (*array)
- RailsConf 2008 Summary
- RailsConf 2008
- Using Ruby on Rails for a Client Project
- Check Your Services with Ruby
- My Ruby Cookbook: #2 LugRadio Mirror Add
- My Ruby Cookbook: #1 Textile Convertor
- Graph your life in Ruby
- Running Shell Commands in Ruby
Rails Refactoring
- Problems when you don’t Refactor Rails: Code Duplication
- Problems when you don’t Refactor Rails: Test Duplication
- Problems when you don’t Refactor Rails: Wild Estimates
- Problems when you don’t Refactor Rails: Lowered morale
- Problems when you don’t Refactor Rails: Lower Participation
- Guest Post on RailsInside.com about Refactoring Rails using Flog
- Refactoring Rails Guest Post on RailsInside.com
- Noticing more refactorings
Redmine Refactoring series
Since Redmine’s codebase was in a pretty poor shape I started a daily series to refactor it and show how I did it. This series ended up being used as the source for Refactoring Redmine (after a bunch of editing).
- Daily Refactor #1: Extract Method in the BulkTimeEntriesController – saving a new TimeEntry
- Daily Refactor #2: Move Method in the BulkTimeEntriesController – saving a new TimeEntry
- Daily Refactor #3: Behavior Change in the Bulk Time Entry patch
- Daily Refactor #4: Extract Method in the BulkTimeEntriesHelper – options generator
- Daily Refactor #5: Remove iteration by using Enumerable
- Daily Refactor #6: Move recipients method to acts_as_event
- Daily Refactor #7: Extract method in fetch_changesets
- Daily Refactor #8: Move method in the ReportsController
- Daily Refactor #9: Move Issue#by methods
- Daily Refactor #10: Pull up the #find_project method to the ApplicationController
- Daily Refactor #11: Extract action in ReportsController
- Daily Refactor #12: Extract rendering in the case statement
- Daily Refactor #13: Inline utility methods in ReportsController
- Daily Refactor #14: Extract method to before_filter in ReportsController
- Daily Refactor #15: Rename method in IssueStatusesController
- Daily Refactor #16: Rename method in RolesController
- Daily Refactor #17: Extract method in AuthSourceLdap
- Daily Refactor #18: Extract method in AuthSourceLdap
- Daily Refactor #19: Cleanup in AuthSourceLdap#authenticate
- Daily Refactor #20: Extract Method in AuthSourceLdap
- Daily Refactor #20.1: Bonus Extract Method in AuthSourceLdap
- Daily Refactor #21: Move methods in the RoutingTest
- Daily Refactor #22: Move method in IssuesController#bulk_edit
- Daily Refactor #23: Extract method in IssuesController#edit
- Daily Refactor #24: Extract method body in IssuesController#edit
- Daily Refactor #25: Extract method in IssuesController#update
- Daily Refactor #26: Convert Procedural Design to Objects in #issue_update
- Daily Refactor #27: Move Method to the Attachment Model
- Daily Refactor #28: Decouple flash messages from Attachment#attach_files
- Daily Refactor #29: Replace Temp with Query in IssuesController#issue_update
- Daily Refactor #30: Move Method into Issue
- Daily Refactor #31: Extract Method in IssuesHelper#show_detail
- Daily Refactor #32: Inline Method in IssuesHelper#show_detail
- Daily Refactor #33: Extract Method in IssuesController
- Daily Refactor #34: Split Methods in the controllers
- Daily Refactor #35: Pull up method for finding a controller’s model object
- Daily Refactor #36: Extract Method to the Member model
- Daily Refactor #37: Extract Method to Query#sortable_columns
- Daily Refactor #38: Extract Method in StuffToDo
- Daily Refactor #39: Substitute Algorithm for Checking the Settings
- Daily Refactor #40: Extract Method in StuffToDo#available
- Daily Refactor #41: Consolidate Duplicate Conditional Fragments in StuffToDo
- Daily Refactor #42: Consolidate Conditionals in StuffToDo#available
- Daily Refactor #43: Extract Method in StuffToDoController
- Daily Refactor #44: Extract Method in Kanban.
- Daily Refactor #45: Extract Method for Kanban panes – Part 1
- Daily Refactor #46: Extract Method for Kanban panes – Part 2
- Daily Refactor #47: Extract Method for Kanban panes – Part 3
- Daily Refactor #48: Consolidate Duplicate Conditional Fragments in Kanban
- Daily Refactor #49: Replace Incoming Pane’s Data Value with Object
- Daily Refactor #50: Remove Middle Man methods in Kanban
- Daily Refactor #51: Lazy Load Issues in Kanban
- Daily Refactor #52: Remove Middle Man Kanban#find
- Daily Refactor #53: Move Method to KanbanPane
- Daily Refactor #54: Move Method to KanbanPane
- Daily Refactor #55: Move Pane Configuration To KanbanPane
- Daily Refactor #56: Replace Accumulator with Inject
- Daily Refactor #57: Extract Class to CustomFieldFormat
- Daily Refactor #58: Move Method to Query Model
- Daily Refactor #59: Move Routing Tests
- Daily Refactor #60: Move Routing Tests – Part Two
- Daily Refactor #61: Extract Method in IssuesController for REST
- Daily Refactor #62: Extract Method in IssuesController
- Daily Refactor #63: Extract Method to before_filter in IssuesController
- Daily Refactor #64: Move Method to QueriesHelper
- Daily Refactor #65: Extract Gantt to a new controller
- Daily Refactor #66: Pull Up Method to ApplicationController
- Daily Refactor #67: Pull Up Method to ApplicationController
- Daily Refactor #68: Extract Class to New Controller
- Daily Refactor #69: Inline Temp in SourceNews#migrate
- Daily Refactor #70: Inline Temp in SourceVersion#migrate
- Daily Refactor #71: Extract Method in KanbansController to before_filter
- Daily Refactor #72: Move Method in KanbansController
- Daily Refactor #73: Move Method to before_filter in InvoiceController
- Daily Refactor #74: Extract Method in Invoice
- Daily Refactor #75: Inline Temp in Invoices#outstanding
- Daily Refactor #76: Replace Temp with Query in Invoice#fully_paid?
- Daily Refactor #77: Extract and Move Method in InvoiceController
- Daily Refactor #78: Replace Data Value in InvoiceController with Object
- Daily Refactor #79: Convert Controller to REST Controller
- Daily Refactor #80: Convert PaymentsController to REST Controller
- Daily Refactor #81: Move last_invoice_number to Model
- Redmine Refactor #82: Extract Method to shoulda Macro in AccountControllerTest
- Redmine Refactor #83: Self Encapsulate Field in User
- Redmine Refactor #84: Extract Method in IssuesController#context_menu
- Redmine Refactor #85: Extract Method in IssuesController#move
- Redmine Refactor #86: Extract Method to split IssuesController#move into two actions
- Redmine Refactor #87: Extract Method Body to IssuesController#perform_move“
- Redmine Refactor #88: Extract Method from move and perform_move
- Redmine Refactor #89: Extract Controller: IssueMovesController
- Redmine Refactor #90: Pull Up Method to ApplicationController
- Redmine Refactor #91: Pull Up set_flash_from_bulk_issue_save to ApplicationController
- Redmine Refactor #92: Move Method #reply to JournalsController
- Redmine Refactor #93: Extract Controller from IssuesController
- Redmine Refactor #94: Extract PreviewsController from IssuesController
- Redmine Refactor #95: Extract ContextMenusController from IssuesController
- Redmine Refactor #96: Merge Method in IssuesController
- Redmine Refactor #97: Move method from IssuesController to JournalsController
- Redmine Refactor #98: Extract method from IssuesController#bulk_edit
- Redmine Refactor #99: Extract method from IssuesController#bulk_update
- Redmine Refactor #100: Convert Issue Routes to REST Resources
- Redmine Refactor #101: Extract activity from ProjectsController to a new controller
- Redmine Refactor #102: Move method from ProjectsController#roadmap to VersionsController#index
- Redmine Refactor #103: Move method from ProjectsController#list_files to FilesController#index
- Redmine Refactor #104: Move method from ProjectsController#add_file to FilesController#new
- Redmine Refactor #105: Move method from ProjectsController#save_activities to ProjectEnumerationsController#save
- Redmine Refactor #106: Move method from ProjectsController#reset_activities to ProjectEnumerationsController#destroy
- Redmine Refactor #107: Extract method #create from ProjectsController#add
- Redmine Refactor #108: Rename method ProjectsController#add to #new
- Redmine Refactor #109: Extract method ProjectsController#edit to #update
- Redmine Refactor #110: Convert ProjectsController’s routes to resources
- Redmine Refactor #111: Convert ProjectEnumerations to resource
- Redmine Refactor #112: Split Method in FilesController
- Redmine Refactor #113: Convert FilesController to resource
- Redmine Refactor #114: Split Method in VersionsController
- Redmine Refactor #115: Split Method in VersionsController
- Redmine Refactor #116: Convert VersionsController to resource
- Redmine Refactor #117: Split New Method in NewsController
- Redmine Refactor #118: Split Edit Method in NewsController
- Redmine Refactor #119: Extract Class from NewsController
- Redmine Refactor #120: Move Method from NewsController to CommentsController“
- Redmine Refactor #121: Move Method from NewsController to PreviewsController
- Redmine Refactor #122: Convert NewsController to REST resource
- Redmine Refactor #123: Split #add method in UsersController to #add and #create
- Redmine Refactor #124: Rename Method UsersController#add
- Redmine Refactor #125: Split UsersController#edit into #edit and #update
- Redmine Refactor #126: Convert UsersController to Resource
- Redmine Refactor #127: Extract TimelogController#report to new TimeEntryReportsController
- Redmine Refactor #128: Rename method TimelogController#details to #index
- Redmine Refactor #129: Extract Method TimelogController#edit to TimelogController#new
- Redmine Refactor #130: Extract Method TimelogController#edit to TimelogController#new
- Redmine Refactor #131: Extract Method TimelogController#edit to TimelogController#update
- Redmine Refactor #132: Convert Timelogs to REST Resource
- Redmine Refactor #133: Extract Method in WikiController#special
- Redmine Refactor #134: Extract Method in WikiController#special to utility method
- Redmine Refactor #135: Extract Method page_index in WikiController#special
- Redmine Refactor #136: Extract Method date_index in WikiController#special
- Redmine Refactor #137: Remove Method WikiController#special
- Redmine Refactor #138: Unify Interfaces
- Redmine Refactor #139: Rename WikiController#index method to WikiController#show
- Redmine Refactor #140: Extract Method WikiController#edit to #update
- Redmine Refactor #141: Rename Method WikiController#page_index
- Redmine Refactor #142: Convert WikiController#destroy to use HTTP DELETE
- Redmine Refactor #143: Convert WikiController to use :id params
- Redmine Refactor #144: Convert WikiController to a REST resource
- Redmine API: Testing for the Authentication Key
- Redmine API: Testing for HTTP Basic auth refactoring
- Redmine API: Testing for HTTP Basic auth with an API Token
- Redmine API: Changing API Tests for Issues #index and #show
- Redmine API: Adding Key Authentication for Issues#create
