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Ruby on Rails Enumerations and Fixtures
I had to figure out Ruby on Rails enumerations and fixtures today. The solution will be here in just a moment, but first, some gratuitous background: I was working on a Person resource — or a “Contact” resource if you prefer your people to have a CRM flare to them. Naturally, hanging [...]Using Ruby Fixtures at the Console
At the risk of showing how (not) far I am along the learning curve given my Month of Sundays Rails project, here’s a great beginner sort of rails tip I found on how to load fixtures into the console. The meat of it is this, which I like because it simultaneously shows you how [...]Software At The Speed of Part Time
I’ve been working on a Rails application, not all the live long day, but generally on a long Friday night and part of Saturday. Being self-employed during the boom years, now that we’re in a recession I own a real estate company for pin money, and have a full time ecological niche banging on legacy C [...]SVN Recurisvely Show Unversioned Files
Try this: svn status | grep ? Enjoy!A Farewell to SlickEdit
For most men, a mid-life crisis involves either some young bimbo, a motorcycle, or both. My own midlife crisis is unfolding somewhat differently. In a couple of weeks, the age of fifty will come out to greet me, as the windshield greets the mayfly. The local bimbos being unforthcoming, and Harley Davidsons being [...]Graphical Unit Testing for Ruby on Windows
In my last post I discussed some of the pros and cons of Ruby on Rails versus .NET. One of my complaints at the time was that Ruby lacks a good graphical unit test runner, because I’m a sucker for a green bar. I also complained that running tests is cumbersome on Windows. Tonight [...]Videos
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Reductio Ad Absurdam?
I've been reading Andrew Keen's luddite work "The Cult of the Amateur". A lot of people don't like Keen, which I'm sure suits his polemic purposes just fine, but I frankly find him a bit refreshing, given the extent of the hype around real estate blogging, social networks, and Web 2.0.
One of Keen's points is that Web 2.0 has become write-only, that everyone is broadcasting like crazy but no one's listening. Now with Ning it turns out that not only can everyone have their own blog, ever… Continue
One of Keen's points is that Web 2.0 has become write-only, that everyone is broadcasting like crazy but no one's listening. Now with Ning it turns out that not only can everyone have their own blog, ever… Continue
Posted by John Lockwood on November 3, 2007 at 8:25pm
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