The Ruby Reflector

…programming environment - and I hope the Discourse project is an opportunity for everyone to learn and grow, not just me. So what are you waiting for? Go fork us on GitHub! [advertisement] Hiring developers? Post your open positions with Stack Overflow Careers and reach over 20MM awesome devs already on Stack Overflow. Create your satisfaction-guaranteed job listing today!

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…discussions bloom!

So now, when someone says to me ...

You're so right! We need a place for community around our thing. What software should we use?

I can reply without hesitation.

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…might be configured NOT to serve 503s, but instead start ignoring that app server.

A few links I used to write this post:

Stack Overflow post on the cap task for maintenance mode.

Gist for the suggested Capistrano maintenance check.

The Capistrano tasks used to exist but have since been removed . This gem will add them back.

• Topics: Apache HTTP Server, Capistrano, Ruby on Rails, configured, XHTML
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…def bar @ model = Model . find ( params [: id ]) @ model . extend ( Decorator ) @ model . foo end end

Then I would like in the tests to do the following (using Mocha) : test "bar" do Model . any_instance . expects (: foo ). returns ( "bar" ) get : bar end

Is this possible somehow, or do you have in mind any other way to get this functionality???

Stack Overflow question

• Topics: Model, Nikos Dimitrakopoulos, Mocha
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I was playing around with an interface experiment and wanted to convert arbitrary strings into hex codes for displaying colours in a webpage. I just ported the JS code from this Stack Overflow solution to Ruby, now hosted on Github: str_2_hex.rb . Might be useful to someone else.

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A lot has happened since my first article on the Stack Overflow Architecture . Contrary to the theme of that last article, which lavished attention on Stack Overflow's dedication to a scale-up strategy, Stack Overflow has both grown up and out in the last few years.

Stack Overflow has grown up by more then doubling in size to over 16 million users and multiplying its number of page views nearly 6 times to 95 million page views a month.

Stack Overflow has grown out …

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…much came up, so I did a bit of Googling and came across this Stack Overflow page that pointed me in the right direction.

I've written a couple of small rake tasks that have been working quite well for me. The first is the "rake deploy" task. So, now I use "rake deploy" instead of "git push heroku master" when I want to deploy to Heroku. This caches my assets, pushed to github, deploys to heroku, and notifies hoptoad about the deploy.

But the …

• Topics: Ruby on Rails, Heroku, Cloudfront, S3, Speeding
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…SuperUser community Q&A sites and co-hosts the Stack Overflow podcast with Joel " Joel on Software " Spolsky. With a schedule like this and a one-year-old, he somehow stills finds the time to keep his Rock Band skills finely honed. Join us as we chat with Jeff in a one-hour webcast where we talk about the Stack Overflow phenomenon, how Coding Horror grew to become one of the most-read developer blogs and career strategies in the post-desktop …

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…I know it does. I'm right there with you. But do not, under any circumstances, give anyone the satisfaction of seeing you ragequit. They don't deserve it. Play other, better moves - and consider your long game. [advertisement] Stack Overflow Careers matches the best developers (you!) with the best employers. You can search our job listings or create a profile and even let employers find you.

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