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Service Objects: What They Are, and When to Use Them 13 Mar 2013 | 11:00 am
There has been a lot of discussion within the Ruby community around the service objects pattern. The term "service objects" may be unfamiliar to even seasoned Rails developers, because Rails itself im...
Installing Ruby 2.0.0 and Rails 4.0.0 beta 1 on Mountain Lion with RVM 2 Mar 2013 | 01:00 pm
Celebrating Ruby's 20th anniversary, both Ruby 2.0.0 and Rails 4.0.0 beta 1 were released last week. Naturally, we will want to get playing with these new tools right away, but installation has not be...
How to Shrink a Git Repository 11 May 2012 | 03:00 pm
Our main Git repository had suddenly ballooned in size. It had grown overnight to 180MB (compressed) and was taking forever to clone. The reason was obvious; somebody, somewhere, somewhen, somehow, h...
Configure Postfix on OS X Lion to Relay via Gmail 28 Dec 2011 | 05:00 pm
Today I had to test e-mail delivery of an app I was working on from home. Annoyingly, my ISP (O2) block outgoing port 25 because they don't trust their users not to run open mail relays. This meant th...
Resque Worker Management with God 6 May 2011 | 03:00 pm
God is a process management tool, which can watch your Resque workers, ensuring they're running and spawn additional workers as necessary in the background. We install God as below: God uses configu...
Installing Pygments 1.4 on MacOS X 1 Mar 2011 | 04:00 pm
I'm using Jekyll to power my blog. It's a very simple framework which lends itself perfectly to developers used to coding files and the Git workflow, and comes without any of the bloat required for a ...
Incorporating ActionMailer in Cucumber Tests 28 Feb 2011 | 04:00 pm
It is very common for Ruby applications to send transactional e-mails to users. What's not immediately obvious is how, as developers, we can test this functionality using our tools of choice: Cucumber...
Associated Records with factory_girl 12 Feb 2011 | 04:00 pm
factory_girl is a Ruby Gem which makes it easy to build re-usable data objects in a test suite. It works especially well with ActiveRecord models. I was recently working on adding a new feature to a ...
Speed Testing with Spork 1 Feb 2011 | 04:00 pm
Test-Driven and Behaviour-Driven Development (TDD and BDD) have seen massive rates of adoption among the Ruby community, chiefly thanks to its close integration in the Rails framework and the fast pac...
Introduction 26 Jan 2011 | 04:00 pm
Firstly, a big welcome and many thanks for taking the time to check out my blog. I’m a professional Web Developer working at Willoughby Stewart. I’ve been working in the industry for 16 years, starti...
