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BackendFu explained
Last week we started the project BackendFu, as there was a lot of interest, we tried to explain and discuss the possibilities.
Landing a Rails Job with No Experience is just silly talk
As usual, Bryan has a few good points to say against that post about landing a Rails job with no experience.
Ruby Midwest Conference General Admission Ends Today
Today is the last day to register for Ruby Midwest for only $125. This two-day, single track conference features a great lineup, t-shirt, included breakfast & lunch, and the Intridea sponsored, OMGWTFBBQ after party. Don’t miss out!
I just wrote the second post of the seri...
I just wrote the second post of the serie “Rails Best Practices” Move logic to model.
Humanizer 2.0.0 Released
2.0.0 version of this simple CAPTCHA solution was just released. It’s now DB/ORM agnostic, multiple answers supported, I18n support for answers and questions. It’s going to be the best CAPTCHA solution ever ;)
Routes Testing in Rails
We have just release a small article related to routes testing. A Routes Test has basically 3 parts 1. assert_generate 2. assert_recognizes 3. assert_routing More info you can found here
acts_as_list will break in production
A 4 minute screencast and blog post showing how acts_as_list will break, and how to fix
Couple good old usefull ActiveRecord's methods
Don’t forget increment, decrement, toggle etc. ) Couple good old ActiveRecord’s methods
Metaprogramming in Radiant to solve a simple problem
I wrote about some simple metaprogramming in Radiant to solve an annoying problem of not being able to use custom tags in different contexts. Radiant includes custom tags in the Page model, and a popular option for managing stylesheets and javascripts prevents you from using these same custom tags in them. A few simple lines changes that.
Redmine 0.9.5 released
A new version of the stable branch of Redmine was just released. It includes over 31 bugfixes and patches and may be the last release before Redmine 1.0.
Teach Me To Code Podcast #26 - My Journey
This episode of the TeachMeToCode podcast is an explanation of how I came to programming and why I approach things the way I do. It’s a journey through Electrical Engineering, QA, Tech Support, and Consulting.
Notes from Heroku+MongoHQ+Sinatra deployment
A couple of notes from my first heroku/mongohq/sinatra deployment.
resque-restriction 0.2.0 released
I have released resque-restriction 0.2.0, which is mainly contributed by @wr0ngway, fixing some bugs and adding customized identifier for resque queue. I also added an example on README.markdown about how to restrict facebook wall posts 40 times per user per day.
Rails fragment caching
Keep track of fragment cache keys, to be sure that your cache is always up to date
How to Land a Rails Job with No Experience
Looking to break into the Rails world? Got no experience? Here’s how to do it.
Failtale: error reporting
Failtale is an error reporting application. It’s platform agnostic, open source and free. There are allready several libraries available.
The Great Ruby Shootout (Windows Edition)
This post contains the results of a new Ruby shootout I recently conducted on Windows. The implementations tested were Ruby 1.8.7, Ruby 1.9.1, Ruby 1.9.2, JRuby 1.5.1, and IronRuby 1.0. Which one was the fastest? Find out here.
Finally: Releasing Navvy 0.3
It’s been a while, but I finally got a chance to release Navvy 0.3 (the database agnostic Ruby background job processor). In this announcement I’ll cover some of the changes and new features 0.3 introduces.
Ruby Hoedown MMX -- The FREE Ruby Conference
We’re having the Ruby Hoedown in Nashville again this year on 9/3-9/4, and also much like last year, it’s free! We’re currently open for registration, but more importantly, the CFP is open (and closes on July 2, this Friday)!
Elise Huard's new Ruby Challenge
Elise Huard challenges Ruby newbies to the “Game of Life”. It’s free to participate and you could win prizes.
RVM and Rails 3 walkthrough
After discussing the merits of RVM for trying out Rails 3 without disrupting one’s development environment with some local Rubyists, I wrote this quick walkthrough of installing RVM and a Rails 3 gemset targeted toward people who haven’t used RVM.
One-to-Many Associations in Netzke
New tutorial on Netzke (Ext JS and Rails framework): going into details on one-to-many associations in grids and forms.
Humanizer - Very simple CAPTCHA tool for Rails
I just released first version of Humanizer gem. Humanizer is a really simple CAPTCHA tool for Rails (Rails 3 support out of the box).
test_inline - Put tests next to the code being tested
test_inline is a new experiment in automated testing. The idea is to put your tests next to the code being tested. Sort of like how rdoc brought documentation into the code this does the same for tests. If you feel like trying something new check it out.