Alex Payne — Node and Scaling in the Small vs Scaling in the Large
...you can apply every available anti-pattern and still come out the other end with a workable system, simply because the hardware can move faster than your bad decision-making.
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Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way - Axon Flux - A Ruby on Rails Blog
There are a bunch of basic functional elements to building out a popular Rails app that I've never really seen explained in one place, but we had to learn the hard way while building Posterous.
Why UML Fails to Add Value to the Design and Development Process « Learning Lisp
UML is applying an abstraction at the wrong end of the problem. It is primarily used to sketch object models for inferior languages.
Gemspecs must not list the same gem as both runtime and development dependency
When you're developing a gem, never list the same dependency as both runtime and development dependency in your .gemspec.
So don't do this:
spec.add_dependency 'activesupport'
spec.add_development_dependency 'activesupport', '~> 2....
Ruby on Rails » Keeping Up With The Joneses: Keeping Rails and its extensions up to date » Pathfinder Development
There are many wonderful things about Rails and the Rails ecosystem. A clean, well-lighted path for keeping all your extensions up to date is not one of them.
Styling and scaling for mobile devices
If you want your application to display properly on iPad, iPhone or Android there are two things to do:
Define a stylesheet for mobile devices
Using the media attribute on stylesheet HTML tags allows you to have a CSS for mobile browsers...
Ruby constant lookup: The good, the bad and the ugly
In Ruby, classes and modules are called constants. This card explains how Ruby resolves the meaning of a constant.
The good
E. g. in the following example, Array could mean either Foo::Array or simply Array:
class Fo...
Upgrading Cucumber and Capybara to the latest versions available for Rails 2
Specify these gem versions in your Gemfile:
gem 'cucumber', '~> 1.3.0'
gem 'cucumber-rails', '= 0.3.2' # max version for Rails 2
gem 'capybara', '< 2' # capybara 2+ requires Rails 3
gem 'mime-types', '< 2' # dependeny of capybara
...
makandra cards: A knowledge base on web development, RoR, and DevOps
What is makandra cards?
We are makandra, a team of 60 web developers, DevOps and UI/UX experts from Augsburg, Germany. We have firmly anchored the sharing of knowledge and continuous learning in our company culture. O...
The JavaScript Object Model: Prototypes and properties
Speaker today is Henning Koch, Head of Development at makandra.
This talk will be in German with English slides.
Introduction
As web developers we work with JavaScript every day, even when our backend code uses anothe...
Test-Driven Development with integration and unit tests: a pragmatic approach
Test-Driven Development (TDD) in its most dogmatic form (red-green-refactor in micro-iterations) can be tedious. It does not have to be this way! This guide shows a pragmatic approach with integration and unit tests, that works in practice and imp...