When you finish Rails Best Practices you're going to get free peepcode screencast . You can use this credit to maybe grab a VIM, cucumber, RSpec, or play by play screencast produced by Geoffrey Grosenbach. You can even watch Rails & Ruby committer Aaron Patterson himself build a Rails app in his play by play cast .
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I was bouncing around the Rails API documentation yesterday, and I noticed a few rails console tricks I haven't seen before . There's been plenty of posts about irb and Rails before, but I'm hoping you'll learn something new here. The following console samples were taken with Basecamp Next on Rails version 3.2.3.
Dive into your app
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We'd proudly like to announce that, due to their contributions, two specific members of our team were recently awarded by the Ruby on Rails community (by the Rails Core Team, to be more precise).
Without further ado we'd like to congratulate our fellow Carlos Antonio ( @ cantoniodasilva ) and Rafael França ( @ rafaelfranca ) for honorably earning the commit access to the Ruby on Rails repository!
@ cantoniodasilva and @ rafaelfranca
Guys, congratulations! …
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As usual, I'm only pulling out the things that look most interesting to developers using Rails; there's a great deal of work still happening on Rails 4.0 internals. This work is valuable and necessary, but it's the part of the iceberg that remains underwater for most Rails users.
Some time in the last week or two, by the way, Rails master passed 30,000 commits.
ceb1dcc3 adds a default humans.txt to new Rails projects. …
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It assumes that more code in the world is an inherently desirable thing. In my thirty year career as a programmer, I have found this ... not to be the case. Should you learn to write code? No, I can't get behind that. You should be learning to write as little code as possible . Ideally none.
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