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?

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 a nice bonus. See you there?

Just came across this Ruby on Rails icon pack and wanted to share!

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.

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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.

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. Continue reading →

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 about it earlier.

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.

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