Yes, it's true. After 700 postings, I'm calling an end to Double Shot.
But don't despair: I'm still going to be collecting pointers to stuff I find useful, and commenting briefly on it. But these resource listings are moving over to the new Larkware site, where I'll be joined by Dana Jones, Mike Breen, and Russell Norris. Our hope is to bring you longer blog postings as well as the short bits, and to make the overall experience more useful.
A nice round number again.
Unit and Functional Tests are as Useful as 100% Code Coverage - I'm starting to agree with an emphasis on integration tests. I'm still not a fan of cucumber though.
Steak - Plain Ruby alternative to cucumber for acceptance tests. Runs on top of RSpec.
PayFacade - Looks like a new attempt to simplify interacting with credit card processors. Taking beta applications now.
…even further the substantial pool of developers who have helped make Rails what it is. Mike Gunderloy has put an excellent guide together that outlines how to get started with the Rails Core source code. We'll be updating it to reflect the latest changes in the beta releases.
Participants can help in 4 ways:
Confirm that the bug can be reproduced
If it can't be reproduced, try to figure out what information would make it possible to reproduced
If it can be reproduced, …
…A Fresh Cup , because it gives him quick access to good information: " Mike Gunderloy does such a great job of tracking down and compiling links to cool stuff out there, saving me the trouble of doing so."
As far as development tools are concerned, Joe is an emacs user through and through. Being able to learn all the emacs tricks from a senior developer he used to work with prompted him to adopt this as his editor of choice early on. "I'm old school," …
Mike Gunderloy's a fresh cup
Elad Meidar's bag o' links
David Trasbo's L33T LINKS
Peter Cooper's rubyflow
I watch a bunch of tags in my delicious aggregator, URLAgg .
Occasionally I'll see something of note pass by on twitter, though I have to be watching one of my lists to see it, otherwise there's just too much noise.
…factory_girl . The core team involved this weekend included José Valim, Pratik Naik and Michael Koziarski.
I thank RailsBridge for hosting this event. The efforts of Dan Pickett, Sam Elliot, Elad Meidar and Mike Gunderloy made this possible. I am looking forward to participate in the upcoming BugMashes and urge other Rails developers to do the same.
RailsBridge: Rebooting the Rails Community by Mike Gunderloy
Prince: Powerful PDF Generation by Michael Bleigh
Ruby C Extension Development by Claudio Fiorini
Using the Twitter API with Ruby by Brian Rivard
Continuous Integration Tools in Rails by Saurabh Bhatia
Active Scaffold by Payal Gupta
Implement a Full Text Search Engine with Xapian by Amit Mathur
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Mike Gunderloy - RailsBridge: Rebooting the Rails Community
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Claudio Fiorini - Ruby C Extension Development
Brian Rivard - Using the Twitter API with Ruby
Saurabh Bhatia - Continuous Integration Tools in Rails
Payal Gupta - Active Scaffold
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Prince: Powerful PDF Generation by Michael Bleigh
Ruby C Extension Development by Claudio Fiorini
Using the Twitter API with Ruby by Brian Rivard
Continuous Integration Tools in Rails by Saurabh Bhatia
Active Scaffold by Payal Gupta
Implement a Full Text Search Engine with Xapian by Amit Mathur
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