Introducing RMM, the Rails Maturity Model - Ruby on Rails meets the business world | Google Groups
A couple of Railsconfs ago, Courtenay and I did indeed discuss
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Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and _why: The disappearance of one of the world’s most beloved computer programmers
Nice article to educate your non-geek girlfriend/boyfriend about the joys of programming.
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.
Google Summer of Code winner: ActiveModel for Ruby on Rails
Finish the remainder of the ActiveModel todo list (observers, callbacks, validations, scoping, and serialization) in addition to associations. Also wire up ActiveModel up to ActiveRecord and ActiveResource.
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.
Use the Ruby debugger on Rails 2 script/runner scripts
This card needs to be updated for Rails 3+.
Since there is no --debugger flag you need to run:
rdebug script/runner lib/scripts/something.rb
That will open an debugging IRB right away, like this:
require File.dirname(__...
Handy! RGB to HSL and RGB to HSV color model conversion algorithms in JavaScript - Axon Flux // A Ruby on Rails Blog
Here is a set of additive color model conversion algorithms that I found published on Wikipedia and have implemented in JavaScript.
Tagaholic - Hirb - Irb On The Good Stuff
Hirb provides a mini view framework for console applications, designed with irb in mind.
The Ruby Object Model
In Ruby (almost) everything is an Object. While this enables a lot of powerful features, this concept might be confusing for developers who have been programming in more static languages, such as Java or C#. This card should help understanding t...
Good real world example for form models / presenters in Rails
We have often felt the pain where our models need to serve too many masters. E.g. we are adding a lot of logic and callbacks for a particular form screen, but then the model becomes a pain in tests, where all those callbacks just get in the way. O...