Improve Your Rails Development Workflow Ruby Peru meeting - March 26, 2011 Florent Guilleux 

Disclaimer: mastering your editor and shell are probably the most important things to do to improve your workflow But let's concentrate on tools for today... 

1. Speed-up application initial setup with a Rails application template 

2. Automate the launch of commands needed for your application with Terminitor 

config file example for a Rails project window do before do run "cd ~/projects/demo" end run "git st" run "mate ." tab :name => "server" do run "rails server" end tab :name => "console" do run "rails console" end tab :name => "spork" do run "bundle exec spork" end tab :name => "autotest" do run "bundle exec autotest" end end 

3. Make your application 10 times faster in development mode with RailsDevelopmentBoost 

4. Automatically refresh your browser when a file has changed with AutoRefresh 

5. Improve your rails console with Hirb and Wirble 

>> Post.all Post Load (0.7ms) SELECT "posts".* FROM "posts" +-----+-------------------------+----------+ | id | created_at | title | +-----+-------------------------+----------+ | 907 | 2009-03-06 21:10:41 UTC | hello | | 906 | 2009-03-06 08:47:04 UTC | world | +-----+-------------------------+----------+ 2 rows in set 

6. Easily know the attributes/columns of your models with Annotate 

class LineItem < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :product # ... end # == Schema Info # # Table name: line_items # # id :integer(11) not null, primary key # quantity :integer(11) not null # product_id :integer(11) not null # unit_price :float # order_id :integer(11) example of model annotation 

7. Generate diagrams of a Rails application with Rails ERD or RailRoady 

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8. Open gem code quickly with qwandry 

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