Introducing the Purple Blog
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Readers of this blog may also be interested in the series of articles I post at the PurpleBlog. The latest entry is called How to Spot a Good Instructor and, if you read between the lines a bit, offers insight into...
Introducing the Purple Blog
Photo credit
Readers of this blog may also be interested in the series of articles I post at the PurpleBlog. The latest entry is called How to Spot a Good Instructor and, if you read between the lines a bit, offers insight into...
Introducing the Purple Blog
Photo credit
Readers of this blog may also be interested in the series of articles I post at the PurpleBlog. The latest entry is called How to Spot a Good Instructor and, if you read between the lines a bit, offers insight into...
Windy City Rails Deadline Approaching Fast
Many of us in the Midwest are looking forward to the Windy City Rails Conference on September 12, 2009.
The deadline is very rapidly approaching for the early bird rates ($99 conference only, or $199 for the conference plus a complete 3...
Join Us at Windy City Rails 2009
I’m glad to announce that I’ll be conducting the morning tutorial session at the upcoming Windy City Rails Conference.
It’s a 3-hour tutorial called REST 101: Best Practices for Rails Developers.
If you’re relatively new to R...
Making Git Commands A Little Shorter
Most of you git geeks probably already knew this, but recently I learned how to make git a little more usable for me.
One of the things I appreciate about Subversion’s command line interface is that, usually, you don’t have to type ...
I Don’t Use RSpec
It seems I’m in a super-minority among Rails developers.
First of all, I write tests. My unscientific guess is that less than half of people who call themselves Rails developers actually write tests.
Second, I write tests first. ...
RailsBridge
I’m glad to help announce RailsBridge, a great idea put forth by Mike Gunderloy. Mike invited me (and many others) last week to join his concept for a positive approach inside the Rails community, and so far things look promising.
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An Essential Rails success story (and win a free book)
Dan Woolley writes:
I took your course in Chicago a couple of years ago – I think it was your first one. I finally left my comfy corporate job and went full time on Rails in July 2008. I recently released my...
Simplifying Your Ruby Code
I used to write Ruby code like this a lot when I my brain was still half .NET.
def is_ready?
if self.status > 3
return true
else
return false
end
end
I see this all the time...
Simplifying Your Ruby Code
I used to write Ruby code like this a lot when I my brain was still half .NET.
def is_ready?
if self.status > 3
return true
else
return false
end
end
I see this all the time...
Do You Test Your Views?
Those of you following me on twitter already know that I’m learning Cucumber.
Traditionally I don’t test my views or controllers all that much. I know, I know, it’s heresy. But I’ve just never gotten much value from writing Ra...
