Note: Devise 1.1.6 broke compatibility with Rails versions prior to 3.0.4, this has been fixed on Devise 1.1.7. Devise 1.1.6 has just been released and it follows Rails 3.0.4 release. Rails 3.0.4 changes how CSRF works and adds a new method called handle_unverified_request that should be properly overridden by authentication frameworks. Devise 1.1.6 implements this … »

Here at PlataformaTec we like to use Capybara for acceptance tests. Recently we have discovered the custom selectors feature in Capybara and we would like to share with you how that feature helped us to improve our tests. Sometimes we need to implement features that involves showing some ordered items to the user, like a … »

Outpost is me, scratching my own itch. For a while now, freelancing or working for others, I work with pretty much all the stack in web development: from front-end development with HTML and CSS up to the system administration. And sometimes, I screw up. Sometimes, stuff go wrong. Maybe that Sphinx isn’t getting indexed or … »

[as some of you might have noticed, I accidentally clicked on “Publish” on my draft version, here is the full version of the post. Sorry about that] *Though this blog post was written for any audience, there is a chance that you’ll be more interested if  you are a startuper or running a knowledge workers based company. A year ago … »

This year is coming to an end and it was amazing for us at Plataforma Tecnologia. We are proud to share with you, faithful reader, our accomplishments in 2010, which weren’t few. Open Source The year has begun on fire. In February, José Valim made his way into the Rails Core team and has been … »

One of the great gems released in the past few months was OmniAuth. It is very easy to use, it works without tons of configurations (unless configuring XML files is your thing) and there are already plenty of resources about it on the internet. However, it is not easy to do acceptance tests with Omniauth … »