Stumbled across this today: when geek-site github was down for maintenance, they showed a cool video 
in stead. Kept me watching long enough to log right back in when the video was done. Brilliant!
Showing a video in maintenance
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Monthly Archives: November 2008
Gentlemen…
… start your engines! It seems engines are making a return to Rails. What’s next, components?
Try is brilliant
Every day the power of the Ruby programming language amazes me. It makes programming so much simpler. Example.
Test driven development: take a step back
When you do Ruby on Rails development for a living, Test Driven Development is a given. I would be very uncomfortable without tests, most likely I couldn’t do a job at all. So far, so good. But RoR, being the hottest web framework there is, draws a very “alpha geek” crowd. You know, people who always flock to the latest and greatest thing. You see, testing is out. Speccing is in. And I don’t like it.
ApplicationController to receive normal name
There are things in life that make perfect sense, until someone points out how illogical it really is. I am not being philosophical (for once). In Ruby on Rails, one of the most important things is named in an illogical way. This will be remedied in an upcoming version.
Keeping an eye on Validatable
Stumbled across this when I was researching the validation order in Active Record. It looks like validations in Rails will be refactored in a hefty way some time in the 2.x branch. Good news all around, this means a more modular OO setup and reusable validations on non-active record classes. It even looks like this change will be backwards compatible with your every day validates_presence_of macros.
Rails 2.2: not yet
Ahhh, darn it. The Rails core team is preparing for a second release candidate, which means Rails 2.2 will not be released soon. I do understand it though, the code has been much too volatile in the recent weeks.