josevalim

# In your test_helper.rb
class ActiveRecord::Base
  mattr_accessor :shared_connection
  @@shared_connection = nil

  def self.connection
    @@shared_connection || retrieve_connection
  end
end

josegonzalez

module Jekyll

  class CategoryIndex < Page
    def initialize(site, base, dir, category)
      @site = site
      @base = base
      @dir = dir
      @name = 'index.html'
      self.process(@name)
      self.read_yaml(File.join(base, '_layouts'), 'category_index.html')

krutten

# You must require this file in application.rb, above the Application
# definition, for this to work. For example:
#
#   # Syslog-like Rails logs
#   if Rails.env.production?
#     require File.expand_path('../../lib/better_logger', __FILE__)
#   end
#
#   module MyApp
#     class Application < Rails::Application

jwo

class Api::RegistrationsController < Api::BaseController
  
  respond_to :json
  def create

    user = User.new(params[:user])
    if user.save
      render :json=> user.as_json(:auth_token=>user.authentication_token, :email=>user.email), :status=>201
      return
    else

steve9001

module MyApp
  class Application < Rails::Application
    if Rails.env == 'test'
      require 'diagnostic'
      config.middleware.use(MyApp::DiagnosticMiddleware)
    end
  end
end

aspyct

# Sample implementation of quicksort and mergesort in ruby
# Both algorithm sort in O(n * lg(n)) time
# Quicksort works inplace, where mergesort works in a new array

def quicksort(array, from=0, to=nil)
    if to == nil
        # Sort the whole array, by default
        to = array.count - 1
    end

nhance

Model.new.foo

ndarville

Business Models

Advertising

Models	Examples
Display ads	Yahoo!
Search ads	Google

Trevoke

GOAL

Be able to push to Heroku as any of three Heroku users from a single computer and a single user.

For this, you will not be allowed to copy and paste anything - except SSH keys themselves, because we're not THAT evil.

If you get error messages, read them carefully, and make note of what you understand, what you don't understand, and what you think you understand.

ryansobol

Originally published in June 2008

When hiring Ruby on Rails programmers, knowing the right questions to ask during an interview was a real challenge for me at first. In 30 minutes or less, it's difficult to get a solid read on a candidate's skill set without looking at code they've previously written. And in the corporate/enterprise world, I often don't have access to their previous work.

To ensure we hired competent ruby developers at my last job, I created a list of 15 ruby questions -- a ruby measuring stick if you will -- to select the cream of the crop that walked through our doors.

What to expect

Candidates will typically give you a range of responses based on their experience and personality. So it's up to you to decide the correctness of their answer.