Ruby on Rails – Page 49

Feedzirra installtion on ubuntu interpid

October 12, 2009April 16, 2010 by sandipransing, posted in Ruby on Rails

Feedzirra is a feed library that is designed to get and update many feeds as quickly as possible. This includes using libcurl-multi through the taf2-curb gem for faster http gets, and libxml through nokogiri and sax-machine for faster parsing.sudo apt-get install libcurl3 libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt1-devsudo gem install pauldix-feedzirra

Musings on cache-money – Part I

October 10, 2009April 16, 2010 by Gautam Rege, posted in Ruby on Rails

So, I always wanted to find a way of memcaching via ActiveRecord, without having to re-invent the wheel 😉 My investigations initially took me via CachedModel, cache_fu and finally I settled on cache-money. Seems to be *almost exactly* what I wanted - any lookup goes via memcache, any update /edit goes via ActiveRecord + memcache … Continue reading Musings on cache-money – Part I

Start with Cucumber—>A utility for automated testing

October 7, 2009April 16, 2010 by Ninad Pol, posted in Ruby on Rails

Cucumber Introduction: Cucumber is the Acceptance Test Driven Development called Acceptance Test Driven Planning. In this type of testing we use customer acceptance tests to drive the development of code. Thus it is collaborative effort between the customer and the delivery team. Sometimes they are written by the delivery team and then reviewed/approved by the … Continue reading Start with Cucumber—>A utility for automated testing