Mutation Testing with Mutant

I wrote a quick introduction to mutation testing using a new gem called mutant. Check it out here.

evil.rb - doing evil things in ruby

Here be hax, read at your own risk! -

cloudControl PaaS add-on for cloud-based image management

This blog post describes a new add-on for cloudControl, a popular European PaaS provider. Ruby and Ruby on Rails developers can build and deploy their applications using cloudControl and use Cloudinary as an add-on for uploading images to the cloud, performing image transformation & manipulation and delivering optimized images through a fast CDN.

Rails 4, Part 1: What’s Changed in Rails 4?

The fourth major release of the Ruby on Rails framework is coming up rather soon. While no official release date has been announced, many anticipate a release candidate early this year. This version of the framework has been over a year in the making and represents a major change in the way its internals are architected. Read about what else is in store here.

New gem: PartyFoul

Auto submit exceptions from Rails as issues on Github

Coding hardware with Ruby + Phidgets

This week’s post in Crowd Interactive’s tech blog: [more inside]

Gallery of the best Open Source Ruby on Rails apps (relaunch)

We just (re)launched Open Source Rails, a gallery of the best open source Ruby on Rails projects. This iteration is going to be more community driven, and will only include the best projects. See blog post for more details.

rrrretry: a teensy library to re-run your code

If at first you don’t succeed rrrretry…

How to use Sidekiq's built-in extensions to send emails asynchronously

I just posted “Using Sidekiq to send asynchronous emails” on the Remarkable Labs blog. It focuses on the built-in Action Mailer extensions provided by Sidekiq and how to use Sidekiq with Devise.

Forward: Now with Forwardfile Support

We just released a new forward gem — v0.3.0, with a few changes under the hood and one big feature: Forwardfile support. Now you can specify options in a Forwardfile, per project. Read more about it at

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Paloma 1.2 is out! - Finally A Sexy Way To Organize Rails Javascript Files

Currently Rails 3 has a not so organized structure for javascript files. Compressing all javascripts in one big file is fine. But I think we need a more organized way to group js files. Paloma provides a more logical way of organizing JS files. Action specific javascript files. That’s it!

Use GIFs in your Pull Requests for Good, not Evil

This weekend I made my OVER 9000 pull request to Rails, that features a demo of the functionality in GIF format keep reading to find out how..

Master Space and Time With JavaScript: Book 4: Ember now available

Book 4 of Master Space and Time With JavaScript: Ember, is now available at http://www.noelrappin.com/mstwjs. [more inside]

ronin-sql 1.0.0 released!

After six years of development and neglect, ronin-sql has been refactored and version 1.0.0 has finally been released! ronin-sql is a library for encoding/decoding SQL data. It also includes a Ruby Domain Specific Language (DSL) for crafting complex SQL Injections (SQLi). Read More

Some thoughts about Practical Object-Oriented Design In Ruby

I just pusblished some thoughts about poodr. It’s not exactly a review of the book but I think you may find it interesting.

Building Rich Domain Models in Rails. Separating Persistence.

Building rich domain models in Rails is hard. Primarily, because of Active Record, which doesn’t play well with the domain model approach. This article shows how to use Active Record as just a persistence mechanism and build a rich domain model on top of it. Read more…