June 2008
23 posts
thoughtbot: Shoulda testing plugin →
While Shoulda is a Rails-specific library, the concept of having testing macros is nice. Some of the testing macros may seem redundant with the ActiveRecord validation macros that an application defines in the model, but the testing macros are useful to assure that your validation macros actually do what is expected.
Nice.
sparrow →
An interesting Ruby queue implementation, using memcache.
The MBA myth - (37signals) →
E-Myth is not always the answer.
The Rails Documentation App - Rails-doc.org →
A nice documentation site. APIdock (what it is based on) could really help documentation for OSS projects.
“When the productive have to ask permission from the unproductive in order to...”
– A little something about dumbing code down to the lowest common denominator
.irbrc
def ls
Dir["*"]
end
def cd(new_path)
Dir.chdir new_path
end
def pwd
Dir.pwd
end
What is *jour and why they are killer apps for... →
Bonjour FTW
rewrite
→
Namespace conflicts can be a big pain in any programming language; rewrite is an approach to avoid namespace issues in Ruby. It seems a bit over the top, but hacking is not always about doing something reasonable. :-)
Media Temple launches beta for VPS running on... →
Haven’t heard many good things about Media Temple, but I’m happy to see OS X Server being offered by a big hosting company.
Bashfully Yours, Gem Shortcuts →
Easy rdoc viewing for gems - just add a little magic to your bash profile!
“Quality is a function of thought and reflection - precise thought and...”
– Michael Feathers’ Blog: The Flawed Theory Behind Unit Testing
“Just swap out the word employee for customer. When employees are trusted and...”
– “You have to treat your employees like customers” - (37signals)
Coding Horror: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for... →
So awesome.
Git Magic →
Looks to be a good Git reference. I haven’t read any of it, but I definitely enjoy the ACC reference. :-)
Tumblr, RMagick and a Photo Frame! →
Fuzed - Rails on Yaws (erlang) →
Rails behind erlang - seems interesting. I’ve been meaning to learn erlang for a while now, and I’m feeling more acceleration in that direction. :-)
“What’s coolest about how Gemstone’s persistence engine works within the context...”
– ChadFowler.com Maglev
“jQuery.map() method is now 866% faster”
– jQuery: » jQuery 1.2.6: Events 100% faster
“The principle of subdivision is terrific. But are classes and methods the only...”
– “Lets” organize our Ruby Code - I’ve been using this technique a good bit recently with my Java code. Good to see it encouraged elsewhere. :-)
Announcing SquirrelFish →
Awesome name (and pretty good performance too :-)).
The Holy Grail for Rails Deployment →
Phusion now supports all Rack apps, instead of just Rails. This is an awesome thing for deploying Ruby web applications.