Speeding up you tests with Spork is very common when developping Rails applications. What Spork do is preloading your application in a server and copies a fork of that server whenever you run tests. It avoids reloading all the rails stack !! That is great !!! But the problem I ran into is that I …
Tag Archive: ruby
Jan
12
HTTPClient and SSL verify certificate
If you as us in my company use self signed certificate and ran into an OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError when using httpclient gem. Here is how to bypass ssl certificate verification : The issue : require ‘rubygems’ require ‘httpclient’ client = HTTPClient.new url = "https://www.server1.com" client.get(url) at depth 1 – 19: self signed certificate in certificate chain …
Jul
21
Email validation in Ruby On Rails 3 or Active model without regexp
In Rails 3.0, you can use custom validator in your active_record model. So I wanted to manage email validations without regexp matching like others do. I find a new way to make this work thanks to ruby mail gem, a dependency of Rails 3.0 I use this with devise, see my blogpost here : Ruby …
Jul
07
How to translate your column fields and values with gettext in ruby on rails
I am proud to have published my first useful ruby gem. It is called gettext_column_mapping, you can check out the code in my github repository. I already released it as a gem through gemcutter/rubygems It is based upon Masao Mutoh (gettext and gettext_active_record) and Michael Grosser (fast_gettext and gettext_i18n_rails) works. Thanks to them History In …
Jun
29
Bundler default Gemfile and custom Gemfile, example of wirble
Hi all, A simple trick I want to share with you if you are using Bundler (or rails 3) It matters if you want to install wirble gem in your workstation but not in your server Sometimes, you want to include some gem that are not mandatory for your application to run but you want …

