http://www.bryandonovan.com/ruby Ruby, Rails, and other Development Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:45:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks to Franz Schwartau who noticed a bug in the Rubystats gem, and after four hours of debugging, I've released Rubystats 0.2.3 which fixes the bug* Franz found in the beta distribution calculations. Thanks again, Franz.  * By bug I mean bugs, and by bugs I mean stupid mistakes in my code ... http://www.bryandonovan.com/ruby/2008/07/06/rubystats-023-released/ I recently came across the Heel RubyGem. To quote the RDoc page, "Heel is a small static web server for use when you need a quick web server for a directory. Once the server is running, heel will use launchy to open your browser at the URL of your ... http://www.bryandonovan.com/ruby/2008/04/25/heel-rubygem/ It took me a while to figure out a good way to approach this, so thought I'd share. I've been wondering how to best write test code for a Rails plugin that deals with ActiveRecord models, and after trying a few different approaches, I decided to do the thing ... http://www.bryandonovan.com/ruby/2008/02/20/writing-tests-for-acts_as-plugins/ Here's a couple one-liner scripts to help convert your Rails app to 2.0. These scripts are by no means perfect, but should help if you have a lot of files with "start_form_tag", "end_form_tag", or ":post => true". Back your files up first, of course. find . |grep -i "\.erb$" ... http://www.bryandonovan.com/ruby/2008/02/16/upgrading-to-rails-20/ A couple people posted responses to the benchmarks on my Sun blog, so here they are. From Susan Potter: Bryan, I wrote a benchmarking blog post in October last year relating to the difference in code-level optimizations between Ruby 1.8.6 and Ruby 1.9.0 and how the roles were reversed in these two versions: ... http://www.bryandonovan.com/ruby/2008/02/06/responses-to-benchmarks/ (reposting from my Sun blog) I've wondered before what the fastest way is to pass a hash of options to a method in Ruby.. so today I benchmarked a few methods I've used in the past. I've seen three main ways of passing an options hash to a method and extracting the ... http://www.bryandonovan.com/ruby/2008/02/05/ruby-benchmarking-ways-to-pass-options-to-a-method/