A couple of days ago I released RAAKT - The Ruby Accessibility Analysis Kit gem (I know, it really needs a better name). RAAKT is a gem that can be used independently of Rails and my plan was to make a Rails plugin that would add a custom assert method that did the check. It [...]

At RailsConf in Chicago I realized that it would be a good idea to port PAAKT to Ruby and make sure it can be used for automatic accessibility tests in the Rails testing framework. Work has begun and I hope to release it at the end of this summer if all goes well. The project [...]

In an article over at Dancingmango Marc McNeill writes about how new web development frameworks such as Ruby on Rails will have an impact on usability testing practices (“What’s the point of usability testing”). The only real reason to test a mockup instead of a real application is of course that it used to be [...]

At the opening keynote here at RailsConf in Chicago Dave Thomas (of Pragmatic Programmer fame) presented three problems for the Rails community to solve. His idea was that these would help Rails become more popular in organizations. I would like to add two more: a SOAP library and an improved MSSQL-server driver.
Judging from the amount [...]

Stefan Kaes provides a 5-minute solution to improved session handling in Ruby on Rails. Here are some minor adjustments to make it work with Rails 1.1.2.

Update: There is now a nice demo of how selenium on rails works.
Jonas Bengtsson has created an initial version of a Selenium plugin for RoR.
I have been using Selenium for a while now and this certainly looks promising. There are some minor details in this release that need to be fixed such as coloring of [...]

If you are using RadRails when developing your Ruby in Rails applications you will be interested in increasing performance. Christian Pelczarski has an interesting instruction on how you can boost performance of the Eclipse/RadRails combo by switching to the latest Sun JVM (version 6.0) for Windows XP.
You can usually get some extra performance by setting [...]