Category Archives: Rails

“Quick and Clean” NOVA RUG meeting tonight with Chad Fowler!

I’ve been so heads down in RoR development that I’ve been remiss in my blogging… But the February NOVA Ruby Users Group meeting is tonight! Chad Fowler is our guest speaker and here’s what he’ll be talking about: Rails is … Continue reading

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Rcov

I’ve started to use rcov on all my Rails projects. A project I had started working on last year had already been doing it but it didn’t really click in my brain until recently. Rcov is a great code coverage … Continue reading

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Testing Rails Apps at the Rails Edge Reston

Stu Halloway is speaking about testing. Mike Clark is pairing. assert_raise plus a block helps you verify that code will fail – which is hard to do in languages *cough* Java *cough* without blocks. assert_respond_to allows you to verify duck … Continue reading

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Creating Rails Plugins, Refactoring Helpers and Deploying Rails at Rails Edge Reston

It’s day 2 of Rails Edge Reston. Right now we’re in the middle of the Rails Golden Deployment Path talk by James Duncan Davidson. Jim Weyrich is pair-presenting. Jim told an interesting story: sometime last year he tried to get … Continue reading

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Rails Edge Reston – Day 1

Rails Edge Reston is here. The first day was excellent and I can’t wait for tomorrow. It wasn’t just a conference – it was an event. Like Woodstock for Ruby on Rails developers. It was sold out with about 125 … Continue reading

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Northern Virginia Ruby Users Group – January 2007 notes

David Bock gave a presentation about his experience deploying a Ruby on Rails app at the recent January 2007 Northern Virginia Ruby Users Group meeting. He created an app for wallhogs.com, a site where people can upload their own high-res … Continue reading

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Rails 1.2.1 is here!

Yes, there’s nothing like the smell of freshly released software. Rails 1.2.1 was just released earlier today! Congrats to the Rails Core team and all the contributors! What a great start to 2007 for the Rails community. Get it while … Continue reading

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Silicon Valley Ruby on Rails meeting tonight

My friend Zack is helping to organize and host the Silicon Valley Ruby on Rails (Redwood City, CA) Meetup. It’s tonight at 6pm PST. On January 18th, the Silicon Valley Ruby on Rails Meetup returns from hiatus! Please join us … Continue reading

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My friend Brian deploys his first public Rails app

My friend Brian just deployed his first public Rails app, 12 Stone Art, and blogged a bit about it in Brian T. Cooke My First (public) Rails App Goes Live . It’s nice to see more and more Rails apps … Continue reading

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How to see the different Ruby on Rails svn tags

I was curious to see if there was a new Release Candidate of Ruby on Rails, so I went looking for a new tag named rel_1-2-0_RC3. So I was wondering how you browse tags in Trac. It’s pretty easy – … Continue reading

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