Hosted by Ben Orenstein, joined this week by Joe Ferris (and the surprise special guest Seana Quental), the Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots podcast is a new weekly technical podcast discussing development, design, and the business of software development.
Occasionally we have extra tickets to conferences, and it just so happens that Lone Star PHP is one of them! If you are a user group leader and you’d like to have one of our two free tickets to Lone Star PHP to give to your group, then let me know! As we did with our extra php|tek tic...
JRuby 1.7.0 Preview 1 Released 1.7 is proving to be a big release for JRuby and the first preview is out. A key change is that Ruby 1.9.3 is now the default runtime mode (but 1.8 is still available as an option) and support for Java 7's invokedynamic brings some major performance boos...
Part of DataMapper 2 Is Done – Announcing Virtus 0.5.0 Posted by solnic on June 11, 2012 — 0 comments Last week I released Virtus 0.5.0 which is a part of the upcoming DataMapper 2 - check out the announcement on my blog to learn about new features. Comments Post a Comment Comment...
Nick Gauthier on how to write good BDD tests with Capybara and Domino (Free Screencast) Posted by subelsky on June 11, 2012 — 0 comments Nick guest-starred on Ruby Study Hall , reviewing a set of Capybara tests I had written using his Domino gem. Some good tips on how to keep tests cl...
BostonRB Goes Live! Posted by bcardarella on June 11, 2012 — 0 comments Starting tomorrow night (June 12th) The Boston Ruby Group will be streaming its meetings live. We invite everyone to watch! Comments Post a Comment Comment abilities for non registered users are currently deac...
The 'name' function is a clojure function that returns the string for a keyword, symbol, or string. name - function Usage: (name x) Returns the name String of a string, symbol or keyword. At first glace this might not seem that interesting; however, it's good to know 'name' if you've ...
June 11, 2012 Tagged: san francisco workshops apprentice.io Comments (View) Workshops and Apprentice.io in SF We’re opening an office in San Francisco and bringing our full suite of services with us, including workshops and apprentice.io . Workshops Our first two workshops are Design ...
Monday, June 11, 2012 at 5:16AM It's going to be another spotty week here, but I'll update as I can. xip.io - Public DNS server that will resolve nonroutable machines on your local network to their proper IP. This is designed to work well with the latest release of Pow . zucchini - "A...
Monday, June 11, 2012 at 6:10AM Week of June 4 -June 10, 2012 Not a very busy week. The work merged at b4fb80cb starts reducing the number of strings that Rails creates; in the long run, this should have a good effect on memory/GC issues. 4faaa811 adds ActiveRecord::Base#destroy! whic...
Sessions: there's no way to expire sessions if you're using the default cookie store for sessions. You can have a look at the active record session store that should support that. I agree that being able to control session life time from within Redmine is a desirable feature (#6597 )....
tenXer tracks activities from your Pivotal Tracker , GitHub, Phabricator, Google Calendar, and Gmail accounts and provides statistics about your performance. To put it in terms our users are more familiar with, it's about visualizing your "life Velocity". You can read more on the bene...
Class: iTunesPrintSettings Properties: copies (the number of copies of a document to be printed) collating (Should printed copies be collated?) startingPage (the first page of the document to be printed) endingPage (the last page of the document to be printed) pagesAcross (number of l...
Posted by Steven Scarborough on June 11, 2012 | 0 comments Hi everyone. My name is Steven Scarborough and I’m officially the new guy in the Rails Machine office and I couldn’t be more excited about working with such a talented team. Everyday, I’m impressed by the speed, knowledge, and...
help you speed up your test runs by preloading your application’s dependencies and running your test suite without reloading the whole stack each time. That sounds like magic, but it’s actually quite simple to build a tool that can do something like that. In this article, we’ll write ...
Combine 'pry' with 'debugger'. Adds 'step', 'next', and 'continue' commands to control execution.
In the application code, you can also centralize and isolate code which decides what saw implementation to use. In other words, you now may be able to give the responsibility to do wiring to someone else (and only to him), so that objects can focus on their actual responsibilities (ag...
