Category Archive for: ‘Ruby on Rails’

• Women: the Technology Bell(e)wether

  When I first arrived at RubyConf, one of the first people I met said, “Wow. I think you’re the first woman ever at a RubyConf.” Since there were six women at RubyConf, I can’t say as I’m the first, since we all arrived at the …

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• Validating Markup in Functional Tests

  Occasionally, one finds little gems in patches rejected for inclusion into Rails. This is one of those gems. You can take the code, plop it into your test/testhelper.rb, add an “assertvalid_markup” to the right functional test and then it’ll tell you exactly how borked your …

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• SubEthaEdit and Conference Notes

  One of the features commented upon at RubyConf was the high percentage of people using Macs: approximately 80%. Really! So, being enterprising folks, some people started conference notes for each session in SubEthaEdit, then sharing them for others to edit via Bonjour. Since many people …

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• Rails 1.0 Session

  David Heinemeier Hansson spoke about new features in Rails 1.0. Here are my notes on that talk in PDF form.

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• A Good Set of Tips about Rails Deployment

  While posted specifically about deploying at TextDrive, it’s not specific to TextDrive. http://forum.textdrive.com/viewtopic.php?id=6419

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• Java is Aristocratic; Ruby is Democratic

  A week or so ago, I was trying to explain to someone (who is not a programmer) what the difference in object inheritance between Ruby and Java is. I explained duck typing, but the person still wasn’t getting at what I meant. I blurted out …

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• New AJAX Beta Book

  The good fellows over at the Pragmatic Programmers have found yet another way to extract money from me, in this case a brand new beta book on AJAX techniques, using several languages for the examples. So, while I’ve checked rails off as a category for …

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• Test Fixtures/YAML tip

  I wound up getting an error in my test fixtures that it took me a while to figure out, in part because the text in that part of the fixture was several pages long. Here’s the error: Fixture::FormatError: a YAML error occured parsing ./test/unit/../fixtures/stories.yml. Please …

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• Saturday in Marin

  Today, we decided to go get away from the stressors of the week and drive up to Marin to visit one of our favorite haunts, Sweden House in Tiburon. We sat out on the back deck and had lingonberry pancakes and other yummies. I looked …

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• Ruby on Rails Humor

  Occasionally, one gets pointers and tips about Ruby on Rails coding style in the oddest manner… From IRC (irc.freenode.net, #rubyonrails) ksteev: validates_penis_length patpatnz: oksteev: actually, validates_length_of :penis oksteev: o right… Puns about constraint checking ensued.

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