Noel Rappin Writes Here

Book Status

RSpec chapter draft handed in to edit. It’s going to need a better conclusion. A lot changed in this one, relative to the Lulu version – this is probably the chapter most affected by my own personal experience since it’s original version.

Links

Haven’t done a link set in a while, this is going to be kind of random.

Still seats available for both WindyCityRails in general, and for my tutorial in specific. But the sponsor list has filled up.

Motorola bought 280 North, best known for their Cappuccino JavaScript framework, and the 280 Slides application. Apparently, Motorola plans to use them to make web apps aimed at Android devices. Should be an interesting culture clash.

I’ve been looking through the Rails 3 unobtrusive JavaScript stuff trying to figure out new practices. The Trevor Turk blog has a code snippet for setting up a form that submits when a checkbox is clicked. Like it. Love to see more examples like this, it really shows how clean the Rails 3 structures will be.

Ever wish the Ruby Date and DateTime classes were faster? Course you have. Here’s home_run, a C implementation of the Date and DateTime classes that claims a 20 - 200 time speedup. The Readme page shows how to use the home_run classes instead of the standard ones, if you are feeling adventurous.

I love stories of tracking down obscure bugs, and Yehuda Katz has a great one about bundler, rvm, and various shell interactions. Debugging is maybe the important skill, so watch an expert’s process at work.

Speaking of rvm and it’s awesomeness, here’s a quick guide to putting rvm, bundler, and passenger together on a Rails deploy.

Here’s a little test snippet to solve the problem of how to test an abstract controller by adding a small controller in the test page and creating a route for it.