Archive for March, 2008

The RSpec post (including an important tip on shared example groups)

March 27th, 2008

So in my Rails apps lately I’ve been using the hell out of some RSpec. I have to say that it’s making me a better, more methodical coder. It’s not just allowing me to define my app in terms of expected behaviors and providing the well understood regression testing capabilities of any testing [...]

Using attachment_fu with :storage => :db_file

March 23rd, 2008

So I recently got to use Rick Olson’s attachment_fu in a Rails application I’m working on, and it is pretty awesome. It takes a lot of the hassle out of managing files that you might need to upload such as images, and even has the capability of doing thumbnails on the fly. Attachment_fu [...]

GitHub: Anarchy for Programmers

March 11th, 2008

I’m at the CVREG meeting watching Jon give his presentation on GitHub, the new awesomeness that everybody (nerdy) is talking about. I’m still learning about it and figuring out how / why it’s different than Subversion, but look for a personal project on there soon.
git is a source code management system designed to make [...]