Robby on Rails

Announcing RailsDeveloper

2010/09/01
By Robby Russell
Announcing RailsDeveloper

Earlier today… our team at Planet Argon launched a new site for the Ruby on Rails community. If you have a few spare minutes, I’d love it if you’d to head over and read the announcement on RailsDeveloper.Enjoy!
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Join the zsh revolution

2010/05/27
By Robby Russell
Join the zsh revolution

I love the OhMyZsh community. Let’s grow it a little more this next Tuesday.

Twitter / Oh My Zsh: Declaring that next Tuesda ...

Join the Zsh revolution here…

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Planet Argon Blog

2010/02/17
By Robby Russell
Planet Argon Blog

Just a quick update to let you know that I’ll be moving more of my business-related topics to the Planet Argon Blog. I invite you to subscribe to that feed as well. :-)

p.s. We just published Episode 4 of the Planet Argon Podcast, which was on the topic of Hiring designers.

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Installing Ruby on Rails, Passenger, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oh My Zsh on Snow Leopard, Fourth Edition

2010/02/08
By Robby Russell
Installing Ruby on Rails, Passenger, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oh My Zsh on Snow Leopard, Fourth Edition

Welcome to what seems like my tenth installment (actually, it’s the fourth) of showing you how I setup my development environment on a fresh OSX install. In this case, I’m actually getting a MacBook setup for a new employee with Snow Leopard.

Over the years, I’ve evolved these following steps and they’ve helped our team...
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(oh my) Zsh themes Gone Wild! 18+

2009/12/27
By Robby Russell
(oh my) Zsh themes Gone Wild! 18+

Earlier this evening, I accepted a pull-request for theme number 18, which is now included in Oh My Zsh. To celebrate, I’ve updated the themes wiki page with fresh screenshots.

Here is a sampling of some of the themes that you can use out of the box with Oh My Zsh.

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RubyURL goes GOP…

2009/12/16
By Robby Russell
RubyURL goes GOP…

Will refrain from any political commentary, but was notified by some friends that the GOP was using the source code for RubyURL for their new URL shortening site (gop.am).

To celebrate, I decided to daisy chain a few rubyurl-based sites together and came up with:

Enjoy!

As always, you can fork/clone here

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Sending email: Controllers versus Models

2009/11/16
By Robby Russell
Sending email: Controllers versus Models

While reviewing some code recently, I came across controller code that resembled the following.

if @customer.save
  CustomerMailer.deliver_welcome_message(@customer)
  flash = "Your account has been successfully created. We've sent you a welcome letter with..."
  redirect_to dashboard_path
else
  ...
end

Fairly typical Rails code. Nothing alarming here, but I wanted to evaluate the call to the mailer...
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Using BETWEEN for SQL comparisons

2009/11/14
By Robby Russell
Using BETWEEN for SQL comparisons

Recently, Carlos, suggested that I should start sharing some basic SQL tips that help with performance and/or general usage. I recently came across some code that I didn’t like to read and/or write. For example, let’s take the following…


SELECT * FROM brochures WHERE published_at <= now() AND archived_at >= now()

Essentially, this is pulling...
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Launching Ruby on Rails projects, the video

2009/11/11
By Robby Russell
Launching Ruby on Rails projects, the video

For those of you who didn’t make it to Rails Underground in July to witness my mind-blowing talk, Launching Ruby on Rails projects , it appears that Skills Matter has finally posted a video of it online. :-)

The sound levels are really low… but hopefully you’ll find it helpful.

You can also...
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Planet Argon Podcast, Episode 3: How We Manage Bugs

2009/11/11
By Robby Russell
Planet Argon Podcast, Episode 3: How We Manage Bugs

Earlier this week, we published Episode 3 of the Planet Argon Podcast. In this latest episode we responded to one of the ideas someone in the audience asked on this brainstormr, which was, “How do you manage bugs?”

We had a round table discussion about how we classify and prioritize bugs with our...
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