Unit Testing w/Ruby on Rails
This link was useful, but somewhat incomplete. I’m still looking for a good general reference for building a suite of unit tests to test an actual application, instead of just simple theoretical apps....
View ArticleRails Recipes
I’m only 1/4th of the way through, but already I have to say – Rails Recipes by Chad Fowler is an awesome book – full of nifty examples of things you can do to make your Rails apps better. The first...
View ArticleBlub, Blub, Blub
I am seeing a number of different posts about “Blub” – the programming language that you are most comfortable with, that blinds you to the power in other languages. Which is more powerful? A Maserati,...
View ArticleRails and the Gartner Trough
In the context of technologies hitting a peak, and then experiencing a trough of disillusionment as people discover it won’t really solve the world’s problems in 10 year lessons, Obie asks (read...
View ArticleGreat Article on Good Practices in Ruby
Robert Martin provides us with a great demonstration of how to avoid bad programming in Ruby entitled “The Hungarian Abhorrence Principle” The general rule can be summarized as: When you are tempted to...
View ArticleCritical Acclaim.info
A friend of mine wrote a great Rails app that aggregates movie news from a bunch of sources. Check it out! Critical-Acclaim.info
View ArticleFascinating Article on Ruby, Rails and multiple versions
What happens when you have 4 different versions of a language being worked on at the same time? So, there are 4 Ruby runtimes in various states of being built. They all (except for 1.9) will be fully...
View ArticleArticles on Enterprise Rails
I just registered the domain name EnterpriseRails.com; let’s see whether I can come up with something interesting to put there. Here are some interesting links discussing the concepts around Enterprise...
View ArticleInteresting technique for modifying internal Flex code
You can do this in Ruby, and there is some argument whether it is a good thing to be able to do (in terms of readability, comprehensibility). You can override an existing method w/your own  (I...
View ArticleRails Rant
Every technology needs a good slap in the face once in a while.  While most of this rant from Zed Shaw is insipid, there are some very good points.  Especially regarding the people and ideas that...
View Articlelesson learned…
Never ever ever, no matter how much it makes sense semantically, use the word ‘type’ to describe a column in a database table that will be used by Rails.
View ArticleVisit the Wayback Machine
From April, 2006 – Cedric Beust explains “Why Ruby on Rails won’t become mainstream” Personally, I think he turned out dead wrong on this. If the AARP is building a large-scale software project in...
View ArticleRails to Grails Tips – Flash Messages/Errors
If you’ve used Rails, you’re familiar with the flash, and all the nifty things you can do with it. In Grails, you have flash, but you also have an entire tag library of <g:hasError>,...
View ArticleRails to Grails Tips – GSP tags and Array Primitives
Interesting issue that left me scratching my head this morning… using gsp tags, you can iterate over arrays: <g:each in="${myarray}"> <p>${it.title}</p> </g:each> but if you do...
View ArticleRails To Grails Tips – Closures and Models
One frustrating thing I’ve discovered with Grails is the way data is sent to the view pages. In Rails, it looks a little like this: @scenario = Secenario.new @scenario.title = "New Scenario"...
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