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Protip: Passing Parameters to Your Rake Tasks

over 2 years ago by Patrick Reagan, Development Director on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
For the times I have needed to pass parameters to my Rake tasks from the command-line, I have always used environment variables (as Ryan describes in this...

Hackday: Effective Testing for Rails

over 2 years ago by Patrick Reagan, Development Director on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
This past Saturday we hosted the second Hackday at the Viget Labs office (photos). For this event, Matt and I focused on the tools and techniques for testing...

Using Object-Oriented Programming to Manage Control Flow in Rails Controllers

8 months ago by Patrick Reagan, Development Director on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
This post made the rounds the other day and really left us all scratching our heads. In the post, the author gives an example of how he relies on the use...