- Firefly URL shortener in less than 2.5 minutes - A screencast of how to clone and deploy the Firefly URL shortener for yourself.
- Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook - With Rails 3 just round the corner, now is the time to start considering what apps you want to upgrade and how.
- sinatra-bundles 0.3 is out - Daniel Huckstep's asset packaging gem for Sinatra now allows you to define your own location for stylesheets and javascript. Check out the full range of features on Github.
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My name is Matthew Lang, and I'm a software developer based just outside Glasgow in the UK.
I'm very interested in using agile methodologies such as XP to deliver projects with languages such as Ruby and open source frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and Sinatra.
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Posted on 13th of July, 2010
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.
Posted on 17th of June, 2010
Snippets #96
Lots of goodies today!
- Automated Heroku Backups - A great solution that uses Amazon S3.
- The Projector Rule: A Moving Target Code Standard - Great way of knowing when you're done refactoring.
- RSpecfully, I disagree - Bruce Williams talks about why he isn't using RSpec.
- Simple Daily Git Workflow - Good article, but be sure to check out the comments for further ideas on this.
- Rails 3.0: Third beta release - Oh, and a certain little web framework has reached beta #3. You know the one!
Posted on 15th of April, 2010
Snippets #73
My design skills suck. Maybe something to try and improve on for this year.
- Active Record Query Interface 3.0 - The skinny on all the new features for ActiveRecord.
- UTC vs Ruby, ActiveRecord, Sinatra, Heroku and Postgres - Great article for using UTC in your web applications.
- Just In Time, Not Just In Case - A great habit to pick up in your programming.
- Showoff - Never thought Sinatra could be used for presentations!
- The Path to Rails 3 : Approaching the upgrade - The series on Rails 3 continues. A must read.
Posted on 26th of January, 2010
