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RSpec Rails brings the RSpec testing framework to Ruby on Rails as a drop-in alternative to its default testing framework, Minitest. In RSpec, tests are not just scripts that verify your application code. They’re also specifications (or specs, for short): detailed explanations of how the application is supposed to behave, expressed in plain English. RSpec follows semantic versioning, which means that “major version” upgrades (e.g., 2.x → 3.x) come with breaking changes. If you’re upgrading...

...Standard Ruby was created and is maintained by the team at Test Double, because we appreciate the importance of balancing predictable, consistent code with preserving developer autonomy. Yes, Standard is unconfigurable. See, pretty much every developer can agree that automatically identifying and fixing slow, insecure, and error-prone code is a good idea. People also agree it's easier to work in codebases that exhibit a consistent style and format. So, what's the problem? No two developers will ever agree on what all the rules and format should be.

...If you are unfamiliar with GitHub Pages, you can check out their documentation for more information. Jonathan McGlone's guide on creating and hosting a personal site on GitHub is also a good resource. Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator for personal, project, or organization sites. Basically, Jekyll takes your page content along with template files and produces a complete website. For more information, visit the official Jekyll site for their documentation.

Data integrity is a good thing. Constraining the values allowed by your application at the database level, rather than at the application level, is a more robust way of ensuring your data stays sane. Unfortunately, ActiveRecord doesn't encourage (or even allow) you to use database integrity without resorting to hand-crafted SQL. Rein (pronounced "rain") adds a handful of methods to your ActiveRecord migrations so that you can easily tame the data in your database.

Wraith is a screenshot comparison tool, created by developers at BBC News. Wraith uses a headless browser to create screenshots of webpages on different environments (or at different moments in time) and then creates a diff of the two images; the affected areas are highlighted in blue. There are two main modes for using Wraith, 'capture' mode and 'history' mode. Wraith has some built-in JavaScript and configuration file templates for you to get started with right away. If you wish to take...

Extreme programming is lacking a good tool. Its difficult to keep an overview when your not sitting at the keyboard. When hitting pageup/down the observer quickly looses his bearings. What is needed is animation, scrolling, folding and refactoring.

Ruby Xlib wrap is a set of SWIG interface files for the Ruby programming language for the Xlib include files X.h, Xlib.h, and Xutil.h. Although they are currently only useful with Ruby, they would be a good starting point for other bindings.