tools to learn
In order to become a pragmatic programmer, I need to invest time in learning tools, libraries, scripting and time saving macros and keyboard shortcut
irb
http://github.com/cldwalker/hirb
http://github.com/michaeldv/awesome_print
http://github.com/oggy/looksee
Ruby 1.9
http://tagaholic.me/2011/03/05/one9-upgrade-to-ruby-19-now.html
ruby http://rubyzucker.info/ and http://github.com/dolzenko/dolzenko-gem
Rails 3
Models
https://github.com/Casecommons/active_table
https://github.com/jeremyw/stamp for human date formatting
http://blog.codesherpas.com/on_the_path/2010/04/introducing-business_time.html
https://github.com/mdeering/attribute_normalizer
http://ileitch.github.com/2012/03/24/rails-32-code-reloading-from-lib.html
http://theonblog.com/2012/01/23/on-pluck/
Controllers
https://github.com/voxdolo/decent_exposure
OOP
https://github.com/objects-on-rails
VIEWS:
http://foundation.zurb.com/index.php for css
http://gravityblast.com/2009/07/30/2-minutes-admin-layout-with-rails-and-the-web-app-theme-generator/ awesome template
https://github.com/imathis/hsl-color-picker/
https://github.com/amatsuda/kaminari
CSS3 buttons http://brandonmathis.com/projects/fancy-buttons/
https://github.com/thoughtbot/bourbon
http://github.com/plataformatec/simple_form
https://github.com/techiferous/tabulous for managing tabs in App
https://github.com/thoughtbot/paul_revere/ to make one off annoucements
replacement for helpers: https://github.com/jcasimir/draper
save form locally with http://garlicjs.org/
css
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ + http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/ + bootstrap theme from http://bootswatch.com/
documentation generated using https://github.com/kneath/kss
TESTING
https://github.com/sconover/wrong
Testing mass assignment with RSpec-Shoulda
RSpec 2 chain syntax https://gist.github.com/741672
http://github.com/myronmarston/factory_data_preloader
https://github.com/szarski/Fixturized
continuous testing on cloud https://github.com/joakimk/testbot
https://github.com/bcardarella/valid_attribute
https://github.com/collectiveidea/json_spec
http://blog.winfieldpeterson.com/2010/12/10/rails-tests-run-in-23-time-w-gc-tuning/
http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2010/fuubar-the-instafailing-rspec-progress-bar-formatter/
capybara
https://github.com/jonleighton/poltergeist brand new capybara driver for phantomJS
https://github.com/TkTech/psychoxpath chrome extension to find xpath
http://ivaynberg.github.com/select2/ twitter bootstrap select boxes
https://github.com/thoughtbot/appraisal to test more than 1 version of Rails
test output: https://github.com/tpope/fivemat although there are no tests
https://github.com/davelyon/table_diff for turnip
https://github.com/rspec/rspec-expectations/tree/expect_syntax
take inspiration from https://github.com/rdy/fixture_builder to dump date of the DB into a specific DB
debug with https://github.com/banister/plymouth Pry runs when there is a failure or http://cirw.in/blog/pry-to-the-rescue ?
Use something like https://github.com/nistude/guard-bdd ?
https://github.com/burke/zeus to replace spork
https://github.com/leadtune/service_manager to luanch memcache, redis ...
speed
http://myronmars.to/n/dev-blog/2012/03/faster-test-boot-times-with-bundler-standalone
rack live reload
mocks
https://github.com/xaviershay/rspec-fire More resilient test doubles for RSpec
Rails generator:
config.generators do |g|
test_framework :rspec, :fixture => true, :views => false, :fixture_replacement => :factory_girl, :view_specs => false
fixture_replacement :factory_girl, :dir => 'spec/factories'
end
javascript
https://github.com/psionides/jslint_on_rails
http://ryanflorence.com/2012/coffeescript-source-maps/ debug coffee
Use http://yeoman.io/ :)
mocks
Allows multiple mock frameworks to be in action in RSpec https://github.com/endeepak/rspec-multi-mock
When you’re setting up for a spec, you can ask that method calls on an object be recorded https://github.com/notahat/not_a_mock
ideas
Using gem https://github.com/bradrobertson/apartment to dump test data for each example to a DB
Workflow & tools
pow
http://chrismccord.github.com/labrador/
http://patricklenz.com/posts/bundle-outdated
brew-gem
http://xip.io/ DNS for eveyone
http://railscasts.com/episodes/368-miniprofiler?view=asciicast : see the speed of a request conveniently on the page. It also shows the SQL queries performed and allows you to profile a specific block of code.
git
http://www.git-legit.org/ (brew install legit) update brew?
http://www.palantir.net/blog/using-git-bisect-fun-and-profit
http://lab.arc90.com/2012/04/03/git-sweep/
PostGresql
http://rhaas.blogspot.fr/2010/06/postgresql-as-in-memory-only-database_24.html
Infrastructure & Deployment
Dynamically generates Capistrano recipes for Rake tasks https://github.com/njonsson/cape
lightweight application and system monitoring + exceptions handline (in python) http://amon.cx/
https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq (Resque backgournd jobs)
https://github.com/nadarei/mina replacement for capistrano (faster?)'
logging : https://github.com/roidrage/lograge
javascript
http://www.muscula.com/ airbrake for js errors
API
Stories remote team management
https://github.com/betterplace/pivotal_pdf_cards
metrics
http://corner.squareup.com/2012/02/cane.html
http://blog.codegram.com/2012/2/linting-the-hell-out-of-your-ruby-classes-with-pelusa
square/cane - GitHub
https://github.com/square/cane
codegram/pelusa - GitHub
https://github.com/codegram/pelusa
jscruggs/metric_fu - GitHub
https://github.com/jscruggs/metric_fu
http://brakemanscanner.org/
https://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet N+1 querries
Ruby is too slow
tODO: find patch for 1.9.3 which speeds up rails
https://github.com/skaes/rvm-patchsets
use ./script/rails instead of rails. http://jstorimer.com/2011/12/20/rails-and-exec.html
http://yslow.org/
Editor
vim
http://www.sublimetext.com/
Rubymine
fix java on chrome to get http://www.screenr.com/ to work
Groupware
http://talkerapp.com/
ruby
use tap
FIX IRB for 1.9.3 and http://lucapette.com/pry/pry-everywhere/
dotfile
https://github.com/gabebw/dotfiles alias for github, see gitconfig.erb
VIM & editor
https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow-theme
Analytics
http://ninjasandrobots.com/cohort-analysis-user-retention-in-a-rails-application