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The Maintainability of Unit Tests

14 days ago by Jay Fields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
At speakerconf 2010 discussion repeatedly arose around the idea that unit tests hinder your ability to refactor and add new features. It's true that tests...

Rails 3 Generators: The Unusuals (part 2)

14 days ago by Ben Scofield, Technology Director on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
After the first two installments of the Rails 3 generator tour, you may be asking yourself, “Hey, what about session_migration? Or performance_test? I...

How Ruby Manages Memory and Garbage Collection

14 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Garbage Collection and the Ruby Heap is a presentation given by Joe Damato and Aman Gupta at the recent LA Ruby Conference. You only get the slides for...

5 Chapters of O’Reilly’s Ruby Best Practices – Free!

14 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Ruby Best Practices is a book by Gregory Brown (and published by O'Reilly) that looks into the "Ruby way" of doing things in the Ruby language and, specifically...

Election special

14 days ago by joost on Space Babies.
Seems like the crisis in our parliament has become global news. Guess “our boys” did some fine things in Uruzgan. Too bad the majority of the country...

Ruby Tuesdays: RBP Chapter 5

15 days ago by Gregory Brown on Ruby Best Practices.
If you’re reading this blog, you probably know that the Ruby Best Practices book exists. Even if you haven’t read it, you might have a sense for the...

RPCFN: Broadsides (#7)

15 days ago by Satish Talim on RubyLearning Blog.
Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies RPCFN: Broadsides (#7) By James Edward Gray II About James Edward Gray II James Edward Gray II was called into the...

Next steps for Monkeybars Rawr

15 days ago by James Britt on James Britt - Code, Content, Caffiene.
As of today I am the admin for the Monkeybars and Rawr projects I’m taking over from Logan Barnett who has, without a doubt, done a fantastic job...

Google Analytics API with Ruby and Garb: Making it Even Easier

16 days ago by Tony Pitale, Web Developer on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
Garb is now at 0.7.0! We’ve added many new features to make accessing Google Analytics even easier. Recently added features include: OAuth support, multiple...

Ruby and Rails Conferences 2010

16 days ago by Gregg Pollack on Riding Rails.
There are an incredible amount of Ruby & Rails conferences coming up in the next 6 months. See below to find one in your neck of the woods. March...