Ruby 1.9.2 comes with a new YAML parser: Psych from Aaron Patterson (aka Tenderlove). But it’s compiled only if you have installed libyaml in some of ruby’s mkmf default search location.

Want to play with Zed Shaw‘s Mongrel2 on your mac? Using Homebrew in your home and not in /usr/local ?

An addition to our series of MongoDB ORM benchmarks, a brand new ruby orm for MongoDB called Mongomatic which claim to wash whiter than washing competitors.

If you tried to compile compile WSO2/WSF-C and WSO2/WSF-Ruby extension on Snow Leopard, you know how painful it is.

Inspired by a benchmark of MongoDB versus SQLite by Jeremy Evans, the famous author of Sequel, here is a benchmark of MongoDB via the mongo ruby driver versus Sqlite via Sequel:

Sometimes you just want to take the forbidden path. We had the case quite recently, while testing a Paypal integration. We did want to add a route to a fake Paypal service with a link back to our website after succesful payment, but at the same time we didn’t want to polute our routes.rb just for test purpose. Hopefully, it’s still possible to add routes at runtime even on Rails 3. The issue is calling Rails::Application.routes.draw clears all existing routes and after that no further route can be defined. The solution is inspired by how Rails is doing route reloading:

If you’ve tried to use Rack::Test on Ruby 1.9.x, which is the default when using capybara for exemple, you’ve probably been bugged by nasty warning like this one:

The Cucumber team released some days ago a beta of the 0.7.0 version. With this release comes one thing we were waiting for a long time : Gherkin integration.

Here’s a quick way to easily maintain a complete mirror of a git repository. This is especially useful for backup.