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[Howto] Measure Your Rails App Performance

admin — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:35:52 +0000

Currently the best method I’ve got is too use Newrelic’s RPM service.

Steps to learn building a Rails application — compiled after one year of learning

admin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:15:05 +0000

The most important thing is to keep yourself focused. Rails is huge and complicated, you’ll always have to know what you want to do.

Rails developer = Apple MacBook

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:29:28 +0000

I’ve spent an afternoon to make my Dell / OpenSUSE / Firefox to play Quicktime movies.

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Sources to learn Rails — compiled after one year of learning

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:24:09 +0000

After almost a year of working with Rails this is my guide how to learn Rails.

[Howto] Document your Rails application

admin — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:49:05 +0000

According to DHH a Rails application does not need too much documentation. (check the post here)

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Upgrading Rails? First test your plugins compatibility …

admin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:21:33 +0000

I was trying last couple of days to move my app from Rails v1.2.3 to the newest Rails v2.1.0. Without success.

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[Howto] Add refresh button to ActiveScaffold

admin — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:20:50 +0000

This refresh button will update only the table itself via an Ajax call.

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[Howto] Test controllers with RSpec : Mocks and Stubs

admin — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:42:47 +0000

Testing controllers let me understand what are mocks and stubs.

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[Howto] Test model relationships with RSpec

admin — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:12:26 +0000

Testing has_many, and habtm relationships with RSpec is now DRY. (more…)

[Howto] Document and test code with RSpec

admin — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:31:46 +0000

The first, and the “good enough” reason to test your Ruby on Rails application thoroughly is that Ruby is not a compiler but an interpreter, if not tested your application can halt even on a banal syntax error.

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