Agile RTP is a new user group started in the Raleigh area by Jared Richardson. The first meeting will be on March 22nd where we’ll be video conferencing with the agile group in Charlotte to hear Dr. Laurie Williams speak about test-driven development. I was actually considering driving to Charlotte … Continue reading
I added some long-running integration tests to a Rails application today and quickly began getting irritated that issuing the rake command runs all tests… unit, functional, AND integration. Since I run rake quite frequently, any sizable delay can quickly get annoying. The task that gets executed by rake is the … Continue reading
I ran into a situation today where I needed to pull out all key/value pairs from a hash that matched the keys in a pre-existing array. This is what I initially came up with: hash = { :foo => “foo”, :bar => “bar”, :bat => “bat” } hash.symbolize_keys.reject { |k, … Continue reading
I got tagged by my friend Jared Richardson on Wednesday. Now I’m supposed to blog about five things that people don’t know about me. Oh joy. I have to actually do some thinking? This might hurt. I’ve lived in seven different states over my 25 years of existence. I’ve visited … Continue reading
Nice to see Ruby getting some attention on a non-Ruby blog.
Andy Hunt will be speaking at the Raleigh-area Ruby Brigade meetup tonight. It’s sure to be a good show, so grab a fellow geek and head on down to Red Hat headquarters at 7 PM. Signs will direct you to the correct room. Also, if you want an even bigger … Continue reading
Getting Things Done is a book by David Allen. The methodology from the book, commonly referred to as GTD, has become quite popular inside certain tech circles. I’ve been using GTD for roughly a year now. I can’t claim to be an expert at it, but it’s helped me stay … Continue reading
Something I frequently need to do when deploying a Rails application is determine the current migration version of a database. In the past, I’ve done this by bringing up mySQL and typing: SELECT version FROM schema_info Well, I’m finally tired of doing that so I cooked up this Rake task: … Continue reading
I’m proud to announce that Teascript went live early last week. It’s been a long several months since originally conceiving the idea, building the app, beta testing, and deploying but now it’s finally ready for prime time. Teascript is a Rails application that makes it easy to design and build … Continue reading
I’ve been writing Ruby code for over four years now. I’ve been getting paid to do so for about two years. Prior to that, the bacon I brought home came mainly through the careful crafting of lines of Java, PHP, and C# code. Matz spoiled the party for me in … Continue reading