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Does your Rails application have lots of little tables for keeping track of things like genders, states, colors or other enum-like data? Way back when, when I was learning database development, a mentor of mine showed me a technique that he liked to use to consolidate similar enum-esque database tables...

Scenarios is a little RubyGem for organizing arbitrary snippets of Ruby code. We specifically use it to load up the development database with data. It’s especially powerful in combination with a nice factory gem like Factory Girl / Object Daddy or, for loading up the database with lots of data,...

RackBox is a new RubyGem that adds Merb-esque blackbox testing to Rails applications. Because it’s based on Rack, RackBox also works with most other Ruby web frameworks, eg. Camping, Sinatra, etc. http://github.com/remi/rackbox ( original screencast ) To view this screencast, visit http://remi.org/2009/01/29/introducing-rackbox_merb-esque-blackbox-testing-for-rack-and-rails-apps.html