, around the idea that programmers and businesses still don't seem to be on the same page. I'm not sure if it came up even earlier, but for me it began after I gave a presentation on Lessons Learned Adopting Clojure. The talk is similar to Lessons Learned while Introducing a New Progr...
Keep troubleshooting . Often we learn that it’s easier to give up and ask for help rather than persisting—when we’d get our breakthrough if we’d only delay giving up for another 10 minutes. Respect yourself, go a little further before giving up. Google , of course. Google partial erro...
Some of these are good tricks, some are blindingly obvious to decent programmers, some are unnecessary, and some are actually bad (all IMHO, of course). They are certainly not all things we "should" be using in our own code. 1. Good tip, but the first line is wrong, I think. 2. As Arr...
Go-powered web-services with Rails Posted by nu7hatch on February 28, 2012 — 0 comments Hey folks, my new blog post about Go-powered web-services with Rails is out. Enjoy!
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I often store Ruby code in the fields of ActiveRecord object, giving me the ability to morph the system's behavior at runtime. Metaprogramming in the large , if you will. This is one of my favorite techniques in the Ruby on Rails sphere and one of the reasons I love working with dynam...
Jump to method definitions in gems with ctags Posted by gma on February 28, 2012 — 0 comments Vim and Emacs users can easily jump to any method definition in a project using ctags. You can also configure ctags to let you jump to any method in your bundled gems; this quick post shows y...
Wizard-ify Your Rails Controllers with Wicked Posted by schneems on February 28, 2012 — 0 comments Use Wicked to turn any Rails controller into a step-by-step wizard. To get started read the post or watch the screencast .
For the reasons described above, it can sometimes be useful for application developers to declare a dependency on a gem which has not yet been released. When bundler fetches that gem, it uses the .gemspec file found in the git repository’s root to extract its metadata as well as disco...
, update_attributes() is no longer adequate for both. We need a method that enforces complete replacement of the resource. I read Jose’s objections concerning mapping 1:1 between the HTTP action and the underlying model data, but if you’re going to support the verb and not encourage t...
Global Hack Day #2, Thursday 3/8 Posted by seacreature on February 28, 2012 — 0 comments The idea of having weekly or monthly hack nights has worked great for Ruby users groups all over the world, but the folks at Mendicant University feel like the internet deserves a similiar kind of...
The Watir Team proudly presents the first ever Test Automation Bazaar : a two-day conference in Austin, Texas. The focus of the conference will be on test automation in Ruby (not necessarily Watir), and specification by example : tying automated tests to business context. When: Friday...
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February 24th, 2012 Gem authoring, Humongous mongodb server tools, celluloid and reel, a hot new specjour, custom rails consoles, and a headless poltergeist in this episode of Ruby5! February 21, 2012 See, what we have here is an Enumerization of the Virtus wherein Pelusa, the Deploy ...
The second and older syntax, known as the indented syntax (or sometimes just “Sass”), provides a more concise way of writing CSS. It uses indentation rather than brackets to indicate nesting of selectors, and newlines rather than semicolons to separate properties. Some people find thi...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 5:03AM The promise of the future is often weighed down by the mistakes of the past. Konacha - Rails-aware javascript testing framework that integrates with the asset pipeline. OKAdmin - A custom theme for the RailsAdmin gem. Mutation Testing With Mutant -...
Too LESS? Should You Be Using Sass? Posted by MetaSkills on February 28, 2012 — 0 comments As the author of less-rails and less-rails-bootstrap, I would love to explain why you should not be using LESS and Sass instead.
kendoui-rails 0.0.5 Adds GPLv3 Portions of Kendo UI (http://kendoui.com) to javascripts and styles folders install gem install kendoui-rails Download Documentation Subscribe Stats Authors Brandon Satrom 92 total downloads 14 for this version Owners Links Homepage Bundler gem "kendoui-...
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If you haven’t watched Jim’s talk yet, I’ll remind you to go ahead and do that now. But assuming for some reason you can’t or won’t, you should know that the kinds of complexity that connascence can be used to reason about typically have something to do with coupling. The relationship...
Sharding is usually the final strategy to reach for when scaling a Ruby on Rails app: caching, offloading, and data segmentation are usually the first strategies to implement when scaling your application (they’re usually easier). It probably sounds obvious, but it’s always important ...
