Archive for the ‘ rails ’ Category
To celebrate the release of Rails 3, DHH has started a campaign to raise $100,000 for clean water in Africa. You can help too, by donating. Since Rails 3 is free, you can spend some of your saved cash on this charity, right? [ READ MORE ]
RubyAndRails Europe is held on 21-22 October 2010. I will be attending! This year marks the debut in Pakhuis De Zwijger which is a pretty nice place. The old one was good too, but this one is just a tad more upscale. And in the center of Amsterdam (i.e. closer to my home) so that’s [ READ MORE ]
Just came across this Ruby on Rails icon pack and wanted to share! [ READ MORE ]
A patch of mine was accepted for Rails just two hours ago. True, it’s only a documentation fix. I’m still proud though And I have done a great deal more l33t things recently, all of which I will be blogging in due time. [ READ MORE ]
I am not only an Apple fanboi, but also a Rails fanboi. What do fanbois do? They watch keynotes from their heroes. Here’s the one DHH did at RailsConf2010. [ READ MORE ]
I’m at RailsWayCon2010 and yesterday attended ‘Small is Sexy’ by Nick Sutterer. Besides funny, it was a great little presentation from someone yearning back to components in Rails. [ READ MORE ]
I am at RailsWayCon 2010 and just enjoyed a pleasant presentation by Jonathan Weiss. He told us about CouchDB as a document store and why it rocks. [ READ MORE ]
A recent blog post on the Rubyonrails weblog led me to a great presentation about modernizing specs written in RSpec. In the everlasting quest to reduce LOC I made great progress. Away went most before_each blocks and in came let, implicit subjects and explicit subjects. RSpec let() is especially cool, I wish I had known [ READ MORE ]
Today I migrated one of my apps to Ruby 1.9.1. Just for fun. It actually went quite well. There were a couple of issues, most of them related to old gems. After getting everything up-to-date though two issues remained. [ READ MORE ]
This week saw the launch of Z@PPzone: an new online world/game for children. It revolves around the five Z@PP characters Chica, B.B., Lizz, Olec and Spark. They all live on the Media Park and you can help them navigate the world of television. [ READ MORE ]