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Cucumber, meet Routes

I’ve been loving Rails BDD with Cucumber for the past year or so—it helps me focus on the next required step to build a feature in my application, and better focus equals better development velocity. However, one thing I found tedious in starting with Cucumber was defining route matchers in paths.rb.

The stock path_to method...

Because Gem Names Are Like Domains in the 90′s

In which I release a new gem that adds the whois command to Rubygems.

A Nunemaker Joint

In which I share a new project that joins GridFS and MongoMapper so simply you will be rocked.

Canable: The Flesh Eating Permission System

In which I release another project, this one abstracted from a few recent apps.

MongoMapper 0.7: Identity Map

In which I explain that a pattern learned is a query saved.

MongoMapper 0.7: Plugins

In which I show off and explain how to enhance MongoMapper on your own.

MongoTips: All Mongo, All The Time

In which I announce a new blog dedicated to getting everyone on MongoDB.

Great Lakes Ruby Bash

In which I mention a conference you should definitely go to.

Correct, Beautiful, Fast (In That Order)

In which I post some thoughts on the steps to beautiful code.

Just In Time, Not Just In Case

In which I discuss coding only for what is needed today, not what might be needed down the road.

Multiple Domain Page Caching

In which I show the apache/rails trickery we do to support full page caching in Harmony.

I Have No Talent

In which I discuss my lack of talent and intelligence.