Archive for November, 2008
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! [ READ MORE ]
… start your engines! It seems engines are making a return to Rails. What’s next, components? [ READ MORE ]
Every day the power of the Ruby programming language amazes me. It makes programming so much simpler. Example. [ READ MORE ]
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 [ READ MORE ]
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. [ READ MORE ]
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 [ READ MORE ]
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. [ READ MORE ]