http://www.yup.com/articles/tag/tips?tag=tips en-us 40 Advanced Web Services <p><img style="float: right; margin: 4px; padding: 4px; border: 1px dotted #ccc" src="http://static.flickr.com/36/88444324_6c3e588c38_m.jpg" />Englander Peter Cooper, author of <a href="http://rubyforge.org/projects/classroom/">Classroom</a>, a centralized, dynamic class server for ruby based on <a href="http://www.chadfowler.com/ruby/drb.html">DRb (Distributed Ruby)</a>, has posted an informative article listing 19 Ruby on Rails tricks that every rubyist should know.</p> <p>These tips include examples that help you:</p> <ul> <li>Benchmark logic in your controller actions</li> <li>Easier collections with to_proc</li> <li>Convert arrays to sentences in views</li> <li>Send files back to the user</li> <li>Iterate though page elements with <a href="http://www.codyfauser.com/articles/2005/11/20/rails-rjs-templates">RJS</a></li> <li>Check for existence</li> <li>Number helpers for common number tasks</li> <li>Testing different route configurations easily</li> <li>Get lots of info about requests</li> <li>Improve session performance even more than with ActiveRecord</li> <li>Cache unchanging data at application startup</li> <li>Check your views are rendering valid HTML/XHTML </li> <li>Cleaner HTML output testing </li> <li>Run long-running tasks separately in the background</li> <li>Make IDs in URLs more user friendly</li> <li>Separate out slices of functionality into Engines</li> <li>Do aggregate calculations</li> <li>XML or YAML output of your data </li> </ul> <p>Thanks for all the tips, Peter! </p> <p><a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/19-rails-tricks-most-rails-coders-dont-know-131.html">Article Link</a><br/> <a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/">Ruby Inside Blog</a></p> Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:43:00 -0400 urn:uuid:0f0e83ba-1934-4e1b-9104-1149137f9199 Daniel Butler http://www.yup.com/articles/2006/07/12/article-19-rails-tricks-most-coders-dont-know Ruby on Rails tips