- Roadmap for Learning Rails - An excellent guide on what you really need to know when you're learning Rails.
- Flutie - I might be tempted to use this just for the fact it has formtastic styles included.
- The Road to Rails 3 - Officially we're not there yet, but there's no harm in preparing your application at the moment for a future upgrade.
- What's New in Bundler 1.0.0.rc.1 - Bundler is nearing that big release.
- Rails 3.0 RC1 - No long until the official release now.
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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 #124
Posted on 27th of July, 2010
Snippets #123
Read Metaprogramming Ruby last week, but I think I'll read it again this week just to get my around a few things.
- Creating Duplicate Objects - Took me a couple of reads to get this.
- minitest 1.7.0 released - The nimble replacement for test/unit hits a new milestone. I wonder how fast this is over test/unit?
- Rails best practices - Amey Dhoke has compiled an interesting list of best practices for Rails. I wonder how it compares to other best practices developers might have?
Posted on 20th of July, 2010
Snippets #122
Even if you're implementing such a basic feature as single table inheritance, always write unit tests for it to ensure everything is right. I found out the hard way last night.
- Suspenders now with RSpec, jQuery and more - Thoughtbot's Rails project template gets a few updates and is available as a gem. Much easier to start a project now.
- Pair Programming, or Two of a Kind - Noel Rappin has some interesting observations on pair programming. I've not done any pair programming yet, though it is a practice I would like to try.
- CouchDB hits 1.0 - Well done to everyone involved in getting CouchDB to this milestone.
Posted on 15th of July, 2010
Snippets #121
- 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.
Posted on 13th of July, 2010
Snippets #120
It's amazing what a spot of re-factoring does to simplify your application. I just hope I haven't went too far.
- Sinatra-tests - This gem should come in handy for providing extra tests for my little Sinatra apps.
- Simpleconfig - I'm already using basic configuration settings in a couple of Rails apps, but this gem will make my settings easier to manage and use.
- Ruby 1.9.2 RC1 released - Good thing I'm using RVM.
I also started reading The Passionate Programmer last night. I'm already 50 pages into the book, so I'm aiming to finish it over the weekend. The best part will be putting some of this new found knowledge into action.
Posted on 8th of July, 2010
