Ruby Development Environment Setup

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Ruby Environment

Ruby with RVM
URL: http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/
RVM is a command line tool which allows us to easily install, manage and work with multiple ruby environments from interpreters to sets of gems.

Editor

Vim + Janus: Carlhuda’s vim Distribution
URL: https://github.com/carlhuda/janus
This is a basic distribution of vim plugins and tools intended to be run on top of the latest MacVIM snapshot.

Testing Tools

RSpec
URL: http://rspec.info
RSpec is a Behaviour-Driven Development tool for Ruby programmers. BDD is an approach to software development that combines Test-Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, and Acceptance Test-Driven Planning. RSpec helps you do the TDD part of that equation, focusing on the documentation and design aspects of TDD.

Capybara
URL: https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara
Capybara aims to simplify the process of integration testing Rack applications, such as Rails, Sinatra or Merb. Capybara simulates how a real user would interact with a web application. It is agnostic about the driver running your tests and currently comes bundled with rack-test, Culerity, Celerity and Selenium support built in. env.js support is available as the capybara-envjs gem.

ZenTest and autotest
URL: http://www.zenspider.com/ZSS/Products/ZenTest/
Automated test scaffolding for Ruby.

autotest-notification
URL: https://github.com/carlosbrando/autotest-notification
This gem set the autotest (ZenTest) to send messages to software as Growl, LibNotify, and Snarl, displaying a window with the results.

Utils

rbtrace
URL: https://github.com/tmm1/rbtrace
rbtrace shows you method calls happening inside another ruby process in real time. rbtrace works on ruby 1.8 and 1.9, running on linux or mac osx. rbtrace is designed to have minimal overhead, and should be safe to run in production.

jammit
URL: https://github.com/documentcloud/jammit
Jammit is an industrial strength asset packaging library for Rails, providing both the CSS and JavaScript concatenation and compression that you’d expect, as well as ahead-of-time gzipping, built-in JavaScript template support, and optional Data-URI / MHTML image embedding.