Introducing RMM, the Rails Maturity Model - Ruby on Rails meets the business world | Google Groups
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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.
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...
Lightning Talk: Coverage based Test Case Prioritization in Ruby on Rails
For my computer science bachelor's thesis I programmed and evaluated a CLI Test Case Prioritization (TCP) tool for makandra. It has been written as a Ruby Gem and was tested and evaluated against one Ruby on Rails project....
Rails: Custom validator for "only one of these" (XOR) presence validation
For Rails models where only one of multiple attributes may be filled out at the same time, there is no built-in validation.
I've seen different solutions in the wild, each with different downsides:
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validate: wor...
How to make changes to a Ruby gem (as a Rails developer)
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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...
Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way - Axon Flux - A Ruby on Rails Blog
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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.
Plotting graphs in Ruby with Gruff
Geoffrey Grosenbach has created Gruff for easily plotting graphs. It is written in pure Ruby and integrates with Rails applications.
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