Even if you’ve trapped, you can change your programming style and reap some of the benefits of those new...
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...
UML is applying an abstraction at the wrong end of the problem. It is primarily used to sketch object models...
At times when the RightThing is difficult to ascertain and a lot of time has been spent without much progress...
But trust me on the dynamic languages.
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...
You want to try out all of the different ruby interpreters and versions including different patchlevels, but you don't...
Recently I've been made aware of people inside US Government organizations using my Ruby on Rails Security presentation as...
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...
Amidst my 400 unread Boing Boing links are probably ten or fifteen that are probably real gems. But I’ll...
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...
I've recently moved from using Parallels for browser testing to Sun's Open Source VirtualBox. Here's a walkthrough...
On any page accessed with SSL, all Ajax requests must use SSL, or they will fail. To make this happen...
Passing the --profile flag to RSpec produces some additional output, namely the running times of the ten slowest examples in...
Background allows you to add some context to the scenarios in a single feature. A Background is much like a...
All methods generated by string_attr_reader are now added to that new module instead of the class. The result...
The idea behind scrooge is both surprisingly simple and powerful: instead of forcing the developer to manually specify each attribute...