A lot of programmers have developed the bad habit of consulting the migrations to identify which attributes are available on an Active Record model. This certainly is not the smartest way to do this.

So I decided to create something more practical and I ended up implementing a pseudo-intelissense for Textmate which can display a list with all available attributes for each Active Record model in my project. See how it works.

Remarkable (a framework for Rspec matchers) 2.3 is out! Remarkable 2.2.x series was made of frequent releases with deprecation warnings to consolidate the API. Until we get into 2.3, we improved support for ActiveRecord validations, fixed some bugs and made some changes, so we are safe and clear to work on new features and new matchers.

"For a long time I was evangelizing Shoulda at Surgeworks and used it in my personal projects. The fact is, I didn’t have much success in convincing my co-workers to adopt Shoulda. On the other hand, they managed to convince me to learn and use RSpec. I got to like RSpec more and more, so I decided to adopt it as my official testing framework from now on. But I can no longer live without the resources that Shoulda offers me. So I decided to scratch my itch." Remarkable

Presenting the second edition of Ruby on Rails 2.1 - What's New.