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		<title>RSpec 2.0 rake tasks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RSpec is going through a transition with a huge refactoring for version 2. It&#8217;s currently only in beta, but if you want to get the jump on things with RSpec 2.0 there are a few changes worth knowing to ease the upgrade path. The rake tasks have changed a little. There has been a namespace [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://duckpunching.com/rspec-2-0-rake-tasks</link>
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		<title>Timely assistance with cron intervals using Cronos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For anyone who has used cron before I am sure there have been occasions where you have buggered it up and run the task too few or too many times or at the completely wrong time. I know I have. Its not the cron is terribly hard its just sometimes is not the best mental [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://duckpunching.com/timely-assistance-with-cron-intervals-using-cronos</link>
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		<title>Pagination for make_resourceful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hampton Catlin the creator of make_resourceful has let his thoughts on pagination known and in summary he is not a fan. Hence there is no DRY way to add pagination to m_r without overriding the defaults methods repeatedly. I am not so anti pagination and often find it mildly useful. But mostly my clients want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://duckpunching.com/pagination-for-make_resourceful</link>
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		<title>mocked_fixtures: reuse fixtures as mocks without the database</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a while I have sitting on this plugin called mocked_fixtures. I wrote most of it a few months ago and added a few things here and there but just hadn&#8217;t got round to releasing it. Basically it loads your fixtures files as mock model objects with the values from the fixture stubbed out on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://duckpunching.com/mocked_fixtures-reuse-fixtures-as-mocks-without-the-database</link>
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		<title>Passenger (mod_rails) for development. Now with debugger!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dev mojo After reading the great posts by Geoffrey &#8220;PeepCode&#8221; Grosenbach and Manfred Stienstra about using Phusion Passenger for development I had to give it a try. My doctor she&#8217;d never heard of mod_rails but gave me antibiotics for it just in case. After little bit of setup I can say I am much happier [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://duckpunching.com/passenger-mod_rails-for-development-now-with-debugger</link>
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		<title>Run plugin specs/tests with gem or vendored rails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I create a plugin I set up the tests or specs to be able to run stand-alone, that is not inside Rails app. But when you want to try the plugin out inside a real app, it can help to be able run the specs against vendored version of Rails if the application has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://duckpunching.com/run-plugin-specstests-with-gem-or-vendored-rails</link>
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		<title>ar_mailer gem forked on GitHub, goodies added</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that GitHub has a gem server it allows the process of managing your own fork or customisation of a gem ridiculously easy. No need for your own gem server or shipping around gem files, just put it up on github and nominate it as a gem in the project config. GitHub will automatically compile [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://duckpunching.com/ar_mailer-gem-forked-and-now-on-github</link>
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		<title>date_time_text_field_helpers plugin moved to GitHub</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My date_time_text_field_helpers plugin allows you to use text input fields for dates and times instead of the Rails standard select dropdowns. The plugin was up on Google Code but since I am mostly using git now, I just had to bring it over GitHub. Updates will only be pushed to git from now on. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://duckpunching.com/date_time_text_field_helpers-plugin-moved-to-github</link>
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		<title>Google-by-keyboard Firefox search plugin for Australia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t seen it yet, Google has a project in its labs for the navigation of search results with keyboard shortcuts. Its great for geeks who love the keyboard. Well a reader at LifeHacker knocked out the search plugin for Firefox. I took that and tweaked it for the Australian search engine for those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://duckpunching.com/google-by-keyboard-firefox-search-plugin-for-australia</link>
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		<title>Using ActionView in standalone tests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When writing Rails plugins I like to be able to test them as a stand-alone library rather than inside a specific Rails project. I find it more productive and it avoids clashes with other plugins. It also allows you to test it against multiple rails versions. One frustration I have had is when just want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://duckpunching.com/using-actionview-in-standalone-tests</link>
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