…Postgression - Self-destructing PostgreSQL databases for your testing needs.
Geeksphone - Firefox OS preview devices are on the horizon.
mincss - Tool to strip out unused CSS from web pages.
Announcing Ember! Master Space and Time with JavaScript Book 4 - Another ebook from Noel Rappin.
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Building Mobile Web Applications With Kendo UI And Engine Yard
- Ruby Inside: A Mega Ruby News and Release Roundup for July 2012 in 97 Links
Watching a nuclear-powered robot land via sky crane on Mars does make a lot of this stuff seem less important.
MacBacon - RSpec clone designed to work with MacRuby/ Objective-C.
The Origin of Master Space and Time With JavaScript - Noel Rappin explains why he wrote another book.
Noel Rappin reflects on the various ' Object-Oriented Rails' and 'fast tests' discussions going around the Ruby world as of late.
This post won't be without controversy but Steve Klabnik outlines why he thinks the convenience of factories has 'set Rails testing strategies and software design back two years.' Worth a read even if you disagree.
Advanced Caching in Rails: Revised (for 2012)
- Plataformatec Blog: Active Record `attribute?` method
- Hobo Blog: Hobo 1.4.0.pre8 released, master moving to Rails 3.2
- A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure: The App Scrolls for creating and transforming Rails apps
- Invisible Blocks: Rails 3: Selectively Override Email Recipients
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- Ruby Quicktips: Try out your helpers in the Rails console
…and getting geared up for some fantastic events.
- Pat Shaughnessy asks if Ruby is interpreted or compiled.
- Noel Rappin shows the importance of controlling your development environment.
- Descubra por Jera ama New Relic .
- Find out why we're one of the hottest companies in San Francisco.
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Engine Yard Portland is open for business!
- High Scalability: Sponsored Post: Percona Live!, Strata, Box, BetterWorks, New Relic, NoSQL Now!, Surge, Tungsten, AppDynamics, Couchbase, CloudSi
- Ruby Inside: 9 Ruby and Rails Jobs for January 2012
- paperplanes: Web Operations 101 For Developers
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: 7 minute ab: impatient man's load tests for a Heroku app
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #822
Noel Rappin - Test Your Legacy Rails Code
Dr Nic Williams - High Performance Ruby: Threading versus Evented
Ben Scofield - Break It Down
Matt Hicks - Running Red Hat OpenShift with a little help from Ruby
Rogelio J. Samour - No Sudo for You!
Joe O'Brien - People Patterns
Jacques Crocker - Y U NO CoffeeScript?
Rails Test Prescriptions is a comprehensive guide to testing Rails applications, covering Test-Driven Development from both a theoretical perspective (why to test) and from a practical perspective (how to test effectively). It covers the core Rails testing tools and procedures for Rails 2 and Rails 3, and introduces popular add-ons, including Cucumber, Shoulda, Machinist, Mocha, and Rcov.
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Zero to Rails 3 Virtual Training
- RubyLearning Blog: Ruby on Rails Engineer at Tupalo.com
- Ruby Inside: A Review of ‘The Rails 3 Way' by Obie Fernandez
- Talk Like A Duck: Automatic Annotation with Rails 3 With the Annotate Gem
- Giles Bowkett: Your Opinions Please! Archaeopteryx Kickstarter?
- Testing 1,2,3...: ActiveRecord::Base.all (without conditions) Considered Harmful
The Testing Mindset
This guest post is contributed by Noel Rappin , who is a Senior Consultant with Obtiva, and has been a professional web developer for a dozen years. He is the author of four technical books. The most recent, Rails Test Prescriptions , is available for purchase at http://www.pragprog.com/titles/nrtest/rails-test-prescriptions . Noel has a Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he studied educational technology and learner-centered design.
- RubyLearning Blog: Does ROR deployment deprive YOU of your sleep?
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- Ruby Inside: 7 Top Ruby and Rails Jobs for January 2010
- Obie Fernandez: My RubyConf India 2010 Talk Highlights
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: fundamentals: TDD a date helper
- SKORKS: Thoughts On TDD (A Case Study With Ruby And RSpec)
…addition to the standard talks, there was also a tutorial track, featuring Jeff Cohen and Noel Rappin discussing how to get started with Rails, and how to test a legacy environment, respectively.
Finally, there was a coding dojo hosted by the guys over at Obtiva ( @ ObtivaCorp ) where attendees could drop in and practice pair programming, TDD , and learn about cool tech like Redis!
A big thanks to the ChicagoRuby group for hosting such a spectacular conference!
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Today I got to pair with Noel Rappin and Jen Lindner. Actually, it was more tri-programming than pair programming. Jen is an apprentice currently being mentored by Noel, so they didn't want split apart. I hopped in to try to be helpful, but I felt kind of in the way for most of the day.
We worked on an app that is being rewritten from .Net to Rails. It's actually one app within a suite of apps that will share ActiveRecord models. Our first task was to extract the models …
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