After listening to this weeks Ruby on Rails podcast where Geoffrey Grosenbach interviewed Bruce Tate, it got me to thinking about why Ruby on Rails appeals to me. For me as a Java person, the real appeal of Ruby lies in Rails and here’s why:
DB Schema Viewer is an Eclipse plugin that builds a graphical view of an existing database. Reverse Engineering is performed through JDBC. The most popular databases are currently supported:
* MySQL
* PostgreSQL
* Firebird
ClassMock is a framework that helps the creation of unit tests for components that use reflection or annotations. In this kind of classes, the behavior is dependent of the class structure. This way, each test case usually works with a different class created specifically for the test. With ClassMock is possible to define and generate classes in runtime, allowing a better test readability and logic sharing between tests.
The Pager Tag Library is the easy and flexible way to implement paging of large data sets in JavaServer Pages (JSP). It can emulate all currently known paging styles with minimal effort. It also includes re-usable index styles that emulate the search result navigators of popular web sites such as GoogleSM, AltaVista® and Yahoo!. The Pager Tag Library does most of the work for you by dynamically organizing your data set into pages and generating a browsable index with virtually any look desired.
For those of you who've got into it you'll know that test driven development is great. It gives you the confidence to change code safe in the knowledge that if something breaks you'll know about it. Except for those bits you don't know how to test. Until now XML has been one of them. Oh sure you can use "<stuff></stuff>".equals("<stuff></stuff>"); but is that really gonna work when some joker decides to output a <stuff/>? -- damned right it's not ;-)
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