Read_from_slave for Rails enables database reads from a slave database, while writes continue to go to the master

An example of the conundrum of transferring print documents to the web, one that has become legendary in some circles...

Despite the many JavaScript libraries that are available today, I cannot find one that makes it easy to add keyboard...

Rake tasks to run specs and tests in parallel, to use multiple CPUs and speedup test runtime.

For instance, the UI finds that a certain card is in the graveyard. It is essential that the UI sub...

We had a conversation about the fact that the 'TDD is about testing vs TDD is about design" debate that...

In a nutshell, Bowline lets you build cross platform desktop applications with Ruby, HTML and JavaScript. The idea is to...

As we get ready to upgrade our servers I thought it’d be a good time to upgrade our deployment...

By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success for the...

In a recent post, Stephan Schmidt makes several suggestions in order to write "Next Generation Java". Unfortunately, I disagree with...

You should endeavor to tell objects what you want them to do; do not ask them questions about their state...

The goal of modelling is to produce something substantially simpler than the world. This is achieved not through endlessly inventing...

For all of my professed admiration of Ruby on rails, I personally don't think that easier and more productive...

At times when the RightThing is difficult to ascertain and a lot of time has been spent without much progress...

A/Bingo is a Ruby on Rails A/B testing framework written as a plugin.

Rio is a facade for most of the standard ruby classes that deal with I/O; providing a simple, intuitive, succinct...

It's important, however, that his wonderful code live on, and we need your help to do so. We've...

Celerity is a JRuby wrapper around HtmlUnit – a headless Java browser with JavaScript support. It provides a simple API for...

The same problem happened with address, which was specified to mean only the contact information for the author of a...

I brought up the question whether tests should call the translation API when checking for the presence of a string...

Write declarative tests using nested contexts without performance penalties. Contest is less than 100 lines of code and gets the...

What if my controller decides to take the Thing.create! and rescue route? What if my model has a special initializer...