Archive for March, 2008
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
What with the new baby and all, finding time for coding has been a little tricky. Nevertheless, I have eked out a few moments here and there to continue working on laziness (which Matz mentioned on his blog!). The first version of the plugin is cool, but the tests it ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Or, more precisely, my new daughter. After a rough labor and unplanned c-section, Morgan Dawn Scofield joined the world on Saturday, March 22nd at 2:59 PM. She came in at 6lbs 6oz and 19 3/4" long, and both she and Lacie are doing great.
Blogging may be light over the next ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
The three virtues of excellent programmers are well-known - laziness, impatience, and hubris. Last night, I had an epiphany related to the first of these... and thus was born the laziness plugin.
You know how, when you find a bug in your app, you're supposed to write a failing test before ...
Posted in ruby and rails, testing | 10 Comments »
Monday, March 17th, 2008
So our daughter's due date was last Saturday, but she's been somewhat reticent to join us in the outside world. We're expecting her at any point in the next few days, though, so I may disappear from pretty much everything rather suddenly. Consider yourself duly warned.
Posted in life, metablog | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 14th, 2008
If you use the restful_authentication plugin, you've probably run up against :false. If not, let me explain:
Restful_authentication provides a method called current_user. If someone's logged in, the method returns his or her User object. If no one is logged in, though, current_user returns :false. This is (for me, at least) ...
Posted in ruby and rails | 5 Comments »
