Robert Lysik's List: Ruby on Rails

"Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails plugin for generating administration style interfaces. It abstracts common business application patterns to make it simple for developers to implement beautiful and elegant interfaces with very little effort."

"Class methods are methods that are called on a class and instance methods are methods that are called on an instance of a class. Here is a quick example and then we’ll go into a bit more detail."

"Testing fever has infected the Ruby programming community, and the infection is spreading. One of the most promising innovations in testing in the past year is the introduction and rapid growth of RSpec, a behavior-driven testing tool. Learn how RSpec can change the way you think about testing."

"RSpec is a great tool in the behavior driven design process of writing human readable specifictions that direct and validate the development of your application. I've found the following practices helpful in writing elegant and maintainable specifications."

"In March 2009, Golan Levin, the director of Carnegie Mellon University’s interdisciplinary STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, invited an enigmatic and famed computer programmer known to the virtual world only as “Why the Lucky Stiff” or “_why”—no, not a typo—to speak at a CMU conference called Art && Code—also not a typo—an event where artsy nerds and nerdy artists gather to talk shop."

"Use before and after hooks to execute arbitrary code before and/or after the body of an example is run"