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...
I've recently moved from using Parallels for browser testing to Sun's Open Source VirtualBox. Here's a walkthrough...
Background allows you to add some context to the scenarios in a single feature. A Background is much like a...
Deadweight is RCov for CSS, kind of. Given a set of stylesheets and a set of URLs, it determines which...
decided to go fixtureless with Shoulda + Factory Girl. All good, except one problem. Slow as fuck tests. So here’s...
Google Chrome Frame is a plugin for Internet Explorer that embeds the entire Chrome web rendering engine inside IE.
Apple's random rules for iPhone app approval are a recipe for trivial apps and alienated developers
Concerns is a simple Rails plugin that provides you with a simple way to organise your Controllers, Models and Mailers...
DevIL is a fast and lightweight image library that supports the loading and saving of images in almost any graphics...
If you need big synchronization points, e.g. for big marketing campaigns, you might be better off using an iterative development...
R. Clayton Miller's 10/GUI is probably one of the most dramatic reimaginations of the desktop user interface I’ve...
In the end, the structure of data is something fundamental that can't be simplified or abstracted away. The ORM...