ram.on :rails

setup timezone for rails app & server

execute filtered cucumber features

This script will execute only selective feature files

cukename abc

• recursively find all files having “abc” in their names
• execute them with cucumber as one batch
• show the list of files before executing them

ruby shorthand for creating dynamic symbol

A shorthand for creating symbols dynamically in ruby

» (1..5).collect {|e| :”sym_#{e}” } # instead of “sym_#{e}”.to_sym

=> [:sym_1, :sym_2, :sym_3, :sym_4, :sym_5]

:sym_1 == :”sym_1” == “sym_1”.to_sym

split a phrase into words.strip

Cool Helpers for rails apps

Parsing integer ranges from a string

This is similar to the text box that defines page ranges to be printed (in a standard print dialog box)

Example: “1-3, 5, 9-11” => [1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 11]