Miles Forrest interviews Avdi Grimm on his new book "Exceptional Ruby". Dealing with unexpected failures in code is tough, and oftentimes error processing is dealt with in a haphazard way. Hear the 5 questions you need to ask before writing code to handle unexpected...
Ruby on Rails makes it easy to bootstrap a greenfield project. Unfortunately not all projects are greenfield, so sometimes you need to work with a legacy database schema. ActiveRecord is a great choice when you have a full control over your database from the very...
Piotr Solnica, one of our team members, has just been added to the DataMapper Core Team. Dan Kubb, the team lead, wrote: "Piotr has been involved in DataMapper for several years now, and has been doing some amazing work on the DataMapper Property API, heading up our...
Just bought our #RailsConf passes. Baltimore, here we come.
Testing CodeColorer, the code highlighting plugin... [cc lang="ruby"] # Everything, including a literal, is an object, so this works: -199.abs # 199 "ruby is cool".length # 12 "Your mother is nice.".index("u") # 2 "Nice Day Isn't It?".downcase.split("").sort.uniq.join...