Matthew Lang // My Programming Journal

Snippets #114

TDD skills are definitely picking up thanks to a mix of Shoulda and Factory Girl.

Rails 3 Beta 4 on Heroku - I'm still going to wait for an official release of Rails 3 before I start updating some applications.
ExtJS/Rails CRUD Application in 7 minutes - A good idea if your building an admin section for your Rails application, but for anything else I think I would stick to using my own preferred gems and libraries for some of these features.

TeamRoom - A good look at the key components of the agile team room. It's basically the opposite of everything in a typical waterfall development room.
Rails' Next Top Model - Adam Keys' slides from RailsConf, which looks at ActiveModel and ActiveRelation. I can see lots of uses for ActiveModel in some projects, but I need to spend more time looking at ActiveRelation.
The Road to Rails 3 - A look at the compatibility of Thoughtbot's gems for Rails 3.
Unobtrusive JavaScript in Rails 3 - A detailed look at a key feature in Rails 3. Having not spent much time using JavaScript in Rails projects, I'm going to make a point of using this more extensively in future projects.
Hampton's Ruby Survey - It's year 3 of Hampton's Ruby Survey. Take a few minutes out to complete the survey if you can. It's always good to see what trends are emerging in the Ruby community.

Looking forward to the weekend again.

Using Bundler in Real Life - Some recommended workflow tips.
Plugin Authors: Toward a Better Future - Good tips for Rails 3 if you have written a plugin or two.
False positive XSS in Chrome - Not Rails specific but if your app uses a bookmarklet it might be worth reading.
How to Build an Unobtrusive Login System in Rails - A detailed tutorial by Nettuts.
Git v1.6.6.2 - New release of Git if you're DVCS inclined.

I wish had more time to take part in events like the BugMash. It would have been good to get some time to work with Rails 3. Maybe next time.

Discovering Rails 3 generators - Great list of posts from the Rails BugMash.
Hammertime - Interactive error console for Ruby. Need to spend some time with this.
The least you should know about S3 with Rails - Looking into this for a future project.
jQuery 1.4 Released: The 15 New Features You Must Know - Using Javascript more and more in my projects, so this is helpful.
Getting started with Nokogiri - Already sort of familiar with Nokigiri, but it's good to get an overview like this.