Yesterday, I came across a head scratcher trying to stub my tests with Mocha. I checked the documentation. No luck. I tried a few Google searches. Nothing obvious. The next logical step: ask around the development team. Their savvy didn't disappoint. Here's the breakdown on how to stub method chains using Mocha.
See how I added administration and authentication to Opower's new website using RailsAdmin and SimplestAuth, all before lunch.
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Here at Viget, we’re always looking for ways to reduce duplicated effort, and one component that nearly every single one of our applications needs is an admin interface. As such, we’ve spent a lot of time trying to find the perfect drop-in admin interface generator. We’ve been happy with Typus for the past year or two and have been able to contribute back to the project on a number of occasions. Lately, though, a pair of new libraries have been making some noise: ActiveAdmin and RailsAdmin. How do they stack up to Typus? Read on, friend.
Short Version: the easiest way to combine and minify static assets (CSS and Javascript) in your Rails 3 app running on Heroku is to use AssetPackager with this fork of Heroku Asset Packager. It just works.
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Bundler is a great tool to have in the Ruby toolbox, but it's also a bit mysterious to some developers. "Oh cool, I put my gems in this file, bundle install, and that's it. Wait, what's this Gemfile.lock thing? Should that go in my repo? What's the difference between bundle install and bundle update? How do I install my gems when I deploy? Where are my pants?" Let's take a tour of Bundler and find the answers to some of these questions.
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