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Category Archives: Rails
Ruby on Rails Programmers Needed in Herndon, VA
Looks like Rails fever has spread to Northern Virginia. There’s two listings, though I think they are for the same position(s). They are both for 2+ months. Looks like it is paying $40/hour and telecommuting is an option. Here’s the … Continue reading
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Dependency Injection in both Ruby and Java
Dependency Injection: Vitally Important or Totally Irrelevant? by Jim Weirich at OSCON 2005. This is a great presentation about Dependency of Inversion (and why you might not need it). It nicely compares and contrasts Java and Ruby. It underscores why … Continue reading
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Getting more plugged in locally
Once upon a time, there was this new technology called Delphi, which was meant to be a Visual Basic killer. When it was released, a young man started using it and was enamored with it and wanted to get together … Continue reading
Rails Beta Book is now at 1.0
Just got the word that the Rails book is now finished. I guess we should stop calling it the “Beta Book” and just call it “THE Rails Book.” Expect the paper book to be out in stores the second week … Continue reading
Reading the Rails beta book
I got the Rails beta book (aka Agile Web Development with Rails) and am reading the PDF on my 17″ PowerBook. After hiding the dock, stretching Preview out to be full screen, hiding the drawer and the toolbar, Zooming to … Continue reading
ActiveRecord Associations / Relationships
When you first start with ActiveRecord, it all seems so straightforward: has_one, has_many, and belongs_to. OK, you have the awkward has_and_belongs_to_many. But while you can design your Rails classes to read perfectly and logically in your mind, you actually need … Continue reading
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Iterating over OrderedCollections
One of the things you want to do after having an OrderedCollection (aka List or Array) is to iterate over the elements. I’ll look at the languages I’m interested in: Smalltalk, Java, Objective-C, Ruby, Python, and C#. First off, Smalltalk. … Continue reading
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Comparison of OrderedCollections in Smalltalk, Java, Objective-C, Ruby, Python, and C#
In my last post, I compared the collections classes at a high level. Now I’m diving into the one that is most often used, the OrderedCollection. What’s an OrderedCollection? It is the collection class in Smalltalk that supports ordering. Seems … Continue reading
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Comparison of Collections in Smalltalk, Java, Objective-C, Ruby, Python, and C#
Why look at collection classes? Well, after reading a bit about the language syntax and writing “Hello World”, I think the next thing you should learn about a language/framework is its Collections classes. Its one of the things that makes … Continue reading
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Why did I add Cocoa and Rails?
Astute readers may have noticed that the title of this blog changed this past month from “Eclipse/Java Programming on Mac OS X” to “Cocoa, Eclipse, and Rails Programming on Mac OS X”. Good thing I didn’t put in Panther in … Continue reading