Ruby in Practice

Sneaking Ruby in to the enterprise

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   December 30th, 2006

   Upcoming in ASF 1.5. ActiveSalesforce announces version 1.5 for January '07. Major features include support for salesforce.com 8.0, test fixtures and migrations.

   E-mail attachments with Rails. Ben Curtis uses FasterCSV to generate report data, and ActionMailer to send it as an attachment. I didn't know you can send attachments that easily.

   SOAP4R Hell Working with SOAP4R, Brendon Wilson ran into some troubles and blogged about the problems and the fixes. If you're using SOAP4R, check this post and the follow up comments.

   Quality control. Kwala will check the quality of your Ruby code, including "checks for code duplication, cyclomatic complexity, lines of code, unit tests, various formatting checks, and require cycles."

   Flashy charts. ZiYa is a Rails plugins that uses Flash to create beautiful charts. No need to learn Flash in order to use it. (Via Ruby Inside).

   Posted by assaf Filed in map.resources :ruby