http://usefulfor.com/ruby ruby goodness for your daily needs Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:50:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Although we presented some of this concepts already in dradis reporting: quick & neat word export, here is the step by step guide to get an export plugin recognised by the dradis framework and ready to use! Update (2009-04-09): Checkout the new import/export plugin generators at dradis community forums. Generate the plugin ... http://usefulfor.com/ruby/2009/03/27/how-to-create-a-dradis-export-plugin/ We have already seen how to Use Rails to Create a Static Site. In that article we left the site running, and we recommended the use of wget to generate the static copy. Although this is good enough, with a little bit of Rake we can make deployment easier. The final ... http://usefulfor.com/ruby/2009/03/23/use-rails-to-create-a-static-site-rake-and-subversion/ Dradis is a tool used for structured information storage and sharing. Although it is applicable to various environments, it is originally aimed at information security consultants working alone or in a team. One of the great features of the application is that the client side's functionality can be extended by ... http://usefulfor.com/ruby/2009/02/17/dradis-extensions-how-they-work-and-how-to-write-them/ With over 800 downloads in the first two weeks of dradis v2.0, there is lots of interest on what is going to be next. We are working on solutions for importing and exporting data to and from the repository, but for those of you that can't wait, we have put ... http://usefulfor.com/ruby/2009/02/15/dradis-reporting-quick-neat-word-export/ In this part of the series (see Part 1 and Part 2) we will: Make one of the components compulsory to install. We will look at a way to write our script in such a way that it can be reused for future releases of MyApplication. A few extra tips and tricks. Making a ... http://usefulfor.com/ruby/2009/02/09/nsis-installer-for-a-ruby-application-part-3-a-few-script-improvements/ In Part 1 of this series we had a look at the general structure of a NSIS script as it was created for us by the HM NIS editor and IDE. We previously defined three components to be installed by our installer: Ruby (the target machine that our application is installed ... http://usefulfor.com/ruby/2009/02/09/nsis-installer-for-a-ruby-application-part-2-install-ruby-and-a-gem/ One of the new things we released last week with dradis v2.0 was a new web site for the project (dradis.sourceforge.net). The old site consisted of 20 static pages or so, which was nice and easy but a real pain to maintain or restructure. So we thought that letting Rails do ... http://usefulfor.com/ruby/2009/02/04/use-rails-to-create-a-static-site/ I am working on an NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer for a Ruby application (Dradis - check it out!). In this series I will try to keep log of how I progress with this. I am using HM NIS editor and IDE for NSIS to make the task a little ... http://usefulfor.com/ruby/2009/02/02/nsis-installer-for-a-ruby-application-part-1-hm-nis-wizard-output/ So you want to write some tests for your hot new Rails plugin that extends the behaviour of a ActiveRecord model? The thing is - for it to be decent tests it needs to be functional outside of the context of you Rails application, so you need to create a ... http://usefulfor.com/ruby/2009/01/22/unit-testing-your-ruby-on-rails-plugin/ The new release of dradis is going to use the ExtJS library for the web interface. ExtJS provides lots of JavaScript widgets useful to create complex GUI for web applications. This is the first of a series of posts with small tips and tricks of ExtJS that will also address its ... http://usefulfor.com/ruby/2008/11/12/extjs-combobox-remote-xml/