Category Archives: ruby on rails

Heroku | The Next Level

What if enterprise apps were built the way you’d build an agile Ruby app? What if they were a pleasure to work with, deploy, and manage? Original Post: Heroku | The Next Level. Yesterday’s acquisition of Heroku by Salesforce.com looks … Continue reading

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TextMate shortcuts you should be using.

Here’s a nifty post on getting more productive with Textmate, a popular tool of choice among Ruby developers. It looks like it’ll save me some time — and it may save you some time as well. This is my list … Continue reading

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A simple example of automating the creation of named_scopes in rails

Here’s a common scenario: You have an attribute that can be a set of specific values, like the status of a transaction that can be ‘processing’, ‘succeeded’ or ‘failed’.  You now want to make it easy to check these values … Continue reading

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Agile Development and Sprints: Feature-boxed or Time-boxed?

When organizing a sprint, there are two ways to ‘scope’ the work for each Sprint: Time-boxed or Feature-boxed. In a ‘feature-boxed’ approach, a set of features, defects and chores are defined to ‘scope’ the work to be done during the … Continue reading

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How to get the contents of the database.yml file from ActiveRecord

Save to delicious. Sometimes when using Active Record you may want to create a database connection to a database other than the default database specified in your database.yml file. When this happens, the easiest way to do it is to … Continue reading

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