On my new project we had the problem that some specs failed when ran on their own, and some specs produces strange output (like “use object_id”), so I build a helper that runs each test on its own and could pinpoint the problem.
rake spec:one_by_one
it is now included in the single test rails plugin
Simple meta tag rules (from google webmaster tools):
Obey or be penalized.
For simplicity use: MetaOnRails Rails plugin
Usage
#in your head (no not that head...) =display_meta #in your views, add unique keywords/description that matter set_meta( :keywords=> [@movie.category, @movie.genre,@user.name]*' ', :description=>@movie.description )
Output
<meta name="description" content="my description" /> <meta name="keywords" content="my,keyword" />
Easy handling of latitude/longitude information, build on top of acts_as_mappable (aka geokit).
has_a_location Installation instructions
Usage
class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_a_location end @user.location = [11.101,22.121]# latitude , longitude @user.in_radius(100) #find in 100 miles radius #this location will not be stored since it is the "default location" @user.location = [0,0] show_map if @user.location
Acts_as_feed allows your models to either simply have a feed or to act as a feed.
Install
sudo gem install rss-client script/plugin install git://github.com/grosser/acts_as_feed.git
Usage: see README
I just pushed my latest changes and additions for the old asser_invalid_attributes to github.
Install
script/plugin install git://github.com/grosser/valid_attributes.git Usage
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