Archive for February, 2008
Saturday, February 16th, 2008
After a couple of posts and a question directed to the Rails-Core mailing list, it finally looks like the core team has explicitly favored one goal of scaffolding over the others. Scaffolding is supposed to be educational!
What does this mean? Well, for starters, it gives patch submitters and reviewers ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
I just wanted to say how ridiculously excited I am about the release of this comic book today. Check out the preview from Newsarama!
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
So last night I submitted the first draft of the final chapter of my book for Apress... There's still a lot of work left to do (especially on that chapter), but I think this is a nice milestone to note.
I'm also close to halfway done on the second drafts, so ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
In a recent Ask 37signals post over at Signal vs. Noise, DHH said the following:
We try to do a fairly good job at keeping our test suites current and exhaustive as well. Basecamp has a 1:1.2 ratio of test code (thanks to the persistence of Jamis!), Highrise has a ratio ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
For everyone who ever wondered why their patch adding a form partial to the scaffolding in Rails didn't get accepted, here's my take on it.
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