Tag Archives: Ruby on Rails

  • 17
  • Oct

Testbot – Distributed testing

TL;DR If you have a lots of tests in a rails app that is annoyingly slow (+10 minutes), try testbot – a tool for distributed testing Testbot What? Testbot is a tool for running tests distributed over several machines. Mynewsdesk … Continue reading →

Posted by Kristian Hellquist View Comments Posted in Ruby on Rails, Testing Tagged , ,
  • 14
  • Apr

Announcing Cachable Model – A New Plugin For Caching Your Rails Models

When you scale a Rails website the database layer tends to become the bottleneck sooner or later as it’s more difficult to scale horizontally with hardware than the Ruby/web server layer. At MyNewsdesk we have started looking at database caching … Continue reading →

Posted by peter View Comments Posted in Ruby on Rails Tagged ,
  • 02
  • Jul

Simplest bit.ly API implementation possible?

To use an URL shortener in your project, I would strongly recommend bit.ly. It let you set a custom URL (name) and track traffic, clicks and conversations on micro blogs. But best of all, it should be super-fast and super-stable, … Continue reading →

Posted by Richard View Comments Posted in Ruby on Rails, Services Tagged , ,
  • 11
  • Jun

Rails Development Database Setup Without Migrations

I think a lot of Rails developers have been using the db:migrate Rake task to setup new development databases. The problem with this is that over time migrations tend to grow out of sync with the code, especially if you … Continue reading →

Posted by peter View Comments Posted in Ruby on Rails Tagged
  • 17
  • Mar

New rake task for the Tranlsate plugin: Google Translate

We just pushed the latest addition to the Translate plugin which adds a new rake task: “rake translate:google FROM=sv TO=en”. This will translate all keys in sv.yaml using Google Translate into english and store them in en.yaml. This is a … Continue reading →

Posted by Richard View Comments Posted in Ruby on Rails Tagged , ,
  • 06
  • Feb

Rake Tasks for the Translate Plugin

We’ve added two Rake tasks to the Translate plugin. The lost_in_translation rake task helps find I18n keys in lookups in your code that are missing from your default locale YAML file (i.e. config/locales/sv.yml in our case). The merge_keys Rake task … Continue reading →

Posted by peter View Comments Posted in Ruby on Rails Tagged , ,
  • 23
  • Jan

swedish_pluralize plugin: Swedish pluralization rules for Rails

For those of you looking for Swedish pluralization for Rails, I just refactored this module of ours into a plugin. You can find it on GitHub: http://github.com/newsdesk/swedish_pluralize/tree/master It’s extracted from the old swe_rails plugin by Ola Bini, which did a … Continue reading →

Posted by Richard View Comments Posted in Ruby on Rails Tagged , , , ,
  • 28
  • Nov

The “returning” method explained

This one you will find all over the Rails code. The “returning” trick is a really neat way to refactor ugly patterns, such as this one: object = [] object << “foo” if bar? object Into this: returning [] do … Continue reading →

Posted by Richard View Comments Posted in Ruby on Rails Tagged ,
  • 28
  • Nov

A short introduction.

Welcome to the blog! I thought it would be appropriate to shortly present Newsdesk in a post before anything else. If you don’t know about us (and chances are small you do, unless you’re living in Sweden), we are a … Continue reading →

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  • 25
  • Nov

Using Google Charts from rails

A week ago i got an interesting ticket – update the Newsdesk statistics charts for printing and sending via email. Although people here are quite satisfied whith the look and feel of our current solutions Fusion Charts, we feel that … Continue reading →

Posted by marten View Comments Posted in Ruby on Rails Tagged , , , , , , ,