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Episode #262 - April 10th, 2012

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Railcar tries to make setting up Rails easier before the Japanese bullet train zooms by, CoffeeConsole comes to our Web Inspectors, Konacha gives you serious JavaScript tests within Rails, Schnitzelpress makes blogging easier and faster, Proffer decouples your instance variables from your views and ruby-debug19 gets forked into a 1.9.3-compatible debugger.

This episode is sponsored by Top Ruby Jobs. Everyone deserves to love their job (and it's probably in Ruby).

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  • Railcar
  • CoffeeConsole
  • Konacha
  • Schnitzelpress 0.2.0
  • Proffer
  • debugger
  • Ruby5

Getting started with Konacha Jump to Story

Jo Liss dropped us a line to let us know about Konacha, a library he’s been working on with its maintainer John Firebaugh to write JavaScript tests in your Rails app with the Mocha JavaScript test framework and the Chai assertion library. Konacha recently hit version 1.0, and because it’s tied into rails and not framework agnostic, it’s takes full advantage of Rails asset pipeline and engines. While you should still use something like Capybara & Selenium for integration testing, some of the MVC heavy javascript frameworks coming out these days require more thorough testing, which Konacha will definitely help you with.

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May 14th, 2013

From multi to native json, JoyBox hits 1.0, ContextValidations and FormObjects, teaching kids at KidsCodeCamp, Plataformatec gems, tab navigation with Tabulous 2 and Git Real 2 online course.

May 10th, 2013

Manage access via GitHub organizations, RubyMotion 2.0, Sidekiq Pro 1.0, deprecating `::`, under the hood of Ruby's method dispatch, and the reform gem all in this episode of Ruby5.