Matthew Lang // My Programming Journal

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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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Snippets #59

My top 7 RSpec best practices - I'm still using Test::Unit and Factory Girl, but might need to add RSpec to my toolkit as well.
Rack::Shell - A console for any Rack based ruby web application.

Filed Under // Rack Snippets Testing

Posted on 26th of November, 2009

Snippets #47

21 Rack Middleware to Turbocharge Your Ruby Webapps - An amazing collection of some of the best Rack middleware.
Flash message conductor - A nicer pattern for handling flash messages in your Rails apps.
Plan to write big software - and you have already lost - As an ERP developer who usually works on big projects, I tend to find that most projects I work on are already just big software.

Filed Under // Rack Rails Snippets

Posted on 15th of October, 2009

Snippets #46

Big Old Rails Template - Mike Gunderloy has been updating his Rails template again and this time supports deployment to your Heroku account and also allows you to duplicate the repository to GitHub.
My Tools of the Trade - 2009 - Mike Gunderloy shares his tools of the trade as a Rails developer. Great insight into how what a successful Rails developer uses.
WindyCityRails 2009 - Video's from this year's one day conference in Chicago, have been uploaded and are ready for viewing.
Unicorn! - GitHub share their experiences with the Rack HTTP server.
Lookin' on Up ... To the East Side - John Nunemaker has been getting back to basics with inheritance and mixins. If your a beginner to Ruby, then the code here is great to follow through.

Filed Under // Conferences Rack Rails Snippets

Posted on 13th of October, 2009

Snippets #39

Ruby Version Manager: Easily Multiple Ruby Versions At Once - An amazing and simple way of switching between different version of Ruby.
Using Searchlogic to combine named scopes with 'OR' - Searchlogic gets a new feature to combine named scopes.
Shotgun - Automatically reloads your Rack or Sinatra application on each request. I tried this out last night while working on a Sinatra application and it worked a treat.

Filed Under // Rack Sinatra Snippets

Posted on 27th of August, 2009