Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods - Worth reading if you're tinkering with a non-trivial web application.
How to Permanently Prevent OS X 10.7 Lion from ever Re-Opening Apps After a Restart - Useful tweak.
Rails has Two Default Stacks - Or many, really. A small exploration of why it's getting really hard to learn " Rails" these days.
Draper 1.0.0 released - One of the more complex alternatives for decorators.
This week just...disappeared. Getting old, I guess.
Writing Beautiful RSpec Matchers - How to extend the DSL.
PgPower - Active Record extension to tap some of the features of PostgreSQL.
Testing Your Factories First - Smoke tests for your testing infrastructure.
What's My User Agent? - Useful little tool for wringing troubleshooting info out of non-developers.
Rack::Insight - Souped-up descendant of Rack::Bug.
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Rails, Objects, Tests, and Other Useful Things
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. …
- O'Reilly Media: Ruby and Rails: Rails Recipes
- Giles Bowkett: Sing Robots Series: Current Status
- Ruby on Rails Tutorial News: Some free Rails Tutorial screencasts
- New Relic: Reflections on RailsConf 2012
- PragDave: Premature optimisation in my Rails session code?
- the evolving ultrasaurus: nreduce: self help for startups?
Yet another example: A Politician Looking for Funds? Here are Two Useful Addresses
Article in the New York Times that revealed, with the help of campaign contribution data, which addresses were associated with the most donations to presidential campaigns
These addresses are:
865 South Figueroa, Los Angeles CA (investment management company handling $ 90 billion in assets circa 2004) and
146 Central Park West, New York NY (which at one point …
- Global Nerdy: Scans of My "Hacks/Hackers" Notes
- Unspace Blog: Upcoming speaking engagements
- ronin coder: Never do today what you can put off 'til tomorrow
- Signal vs. Noise: Q&A with Tobias Lütke of Shopify
- Jason Seifer: On Passwords
- Simple thoughts - articles: After Ostrava
…have put together a collection of Ultimate HTML5 Tutorials and Useful Techniques , and whether you're new to HTML5 or an old hand it at already, there should be something in this set that you'll find useful.
I've taken the links from Dzinepress' article and grouped them into categories below:
Introductory Stuff
Coding A HTML 5 Layout From Scratch
HTML 5 and CSS 3: The Techniques You'll Soon Be …
- casperfabricius.com: Curiosities of HTML5
- Life at the Speed of Green: #airfail for HTML Developers
- Lee Munroe: Are you an HTML5 web designer?
- Dalibor Nasevic: Blog application migrated to Rails 3 and UI re-designed
- A Piece of Our Mind: Friday Morning MetaBits - Oct. 15, 2010
- Fingertips: The Meaning of HTML5
…wasn't a requirement of winning this Exhibition Match, but several of the entrants did. For example, MovieNight used VideoJS, the free, open-source HTML5 video player created by Zencoder.
Zencoder competed in the Rails Rumble in 2009, and built ZenVDN , which won the "Most Useful" prize. We didn't compete this year.
- RubyLearning Blog: Almost everything is an object (and everything is almost an object!)
- Trevor Turk: Links for 10-21-10
git add —patch Useful for staging changes you've made to files. It allows you to pick and choose which changes you want to include in your next commit.
git rebase —interactive Very powerful command, but also has the potential to be dangerous. This command allows you to edit the commits which are being rebased. To put it simply, you can use this during a rebase to reorder your commits, remove unwanted patches, and make edits along the way. I recommend reading this article …
- Ruby on Rails Tutorial News: A new Chapter 2 for Ruby on Rails Tutorial
- Edd Dumbill's Weblog: Behind the Times: Improvements to the DOAP schema
- Pragmatic Bookshelf: PragProWriMo, Git cast, Mastering Ruby/Rails
- flow: git really is better than svn
- RailsCasts: Episode 96: Git on Rails
- Rails Rumble: 2010: The Year We Made Rumble History!
…'post-receive' file written in Ruby:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
STDIN.readlines.each do |line|
rev_old, rev_new, ref = line.split(" ")
# You will get in here as many times as branches were pushed
end
rev_old is the old commit hash, rev_new is the new commit hash, and ref will be something like: "refs/heads/test_branch" Useful information.
Git often passes things into it's hooks, check the git book docs to find out what.
- Jake Scruggs: Using Git Inside a Git Hook
- Graceless Failures: Add A Remote In-Process REPL To Your Scala Project
- blog.webandy.com | Andy Atkinson: Using Git with a team on OS X
- High Scalability: Strategy: Caching 404s Saved the Onion 66% on Server Time
- All About Ruby: Hosting your Rails app - first look at Heroku
- JarrodSpillers.com: git merge vs git rebase: avoiding rebase hell
Good news, everyone! Our friends at Zencoder , who took home the ‘Most Useful' category prize in 2009 RailsRumble for ZenVDN , just found out that they've been accepted to Y-Combinator , the influential seed funding program run by Paul Graham and co.
Over the last few years, Y-Combinator has spawned success stories such as Reddit, Loopt, Xobni, Dropbox, Heroku, and Disqus to name but a few. Keep an eye on these guys, they're going to do great things. We wish them the best of luck!
- : Rails Rumble: Please Tag Your Photos
- News Feed: Heroku Hijinks
- JJinuxLand: Scheme: My Y Combinator
- Zerosum Dirt(nap): Reflections on *Camp
- Dead Programmer Society: Heroku, Why Haven't I Been Using You Till Now?
- Litany Against Fear: RailsCamp NE Adventures
…originally wrote this as a reply to Unit and Functional Tests are as Useful as 100% Code Coverage .
First, lets clear some things up. 100% test coverage shouldn't be a goal for your project. I believe that you should track test coverage over time, and make sure that coverage is always increasing rather than diminishing. This metric over time will tell you if you have the right amount of coverage.
Second thing. Rails got it wrong with the name of tests. What …
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #700
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Cucumber, Webrat, HTTP auth, and your API
- JJinuxLand: Ruby: An Introduction to Behavioral Driven Development with RSpec and Cucumber: Version 2
- Expected Behavior : : Fun with Object#send...
- Freelancing Gods: A Month in the Life of Thinking Sphinx
- Litany Against Fear: Testing as Communication: Real-World Techniques Notes