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Terrific?

almost 5 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
Don’t get me wrong, I really like it when a site takes some initiative and let’s me know as soon as they can if my username is already taken...

Q&A: ActiveRecord Observers and You

almost 5 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
Yesterday, I wrote a short post titled, Observers Big and Small, about using Observers in your Rails applications. The following questions were raised...

Observers Big and Small

almost 5 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
My colleague, Gary, keeps a stack of Ruby and Rails books on his desk and was implementing an Observer into a client project. It appears that the Agile...

Wouldn't it be cool if it?...oh wait.. it already does

almost 5 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
Working into the evening on a client project (been sick and trying to play catchup) and was chatting with Allison about working in views and dummy text...

You Might Learn Something at the Back of the Train

almost 5 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
I love to look at other peoples code. Initially, that’s what got me excited about Open Source software. Otherwise, I was looking at small snippets...

One of those mornings

almost 5 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
Well, I made it about eight months since I got my new hard drive... and today… I had to run… $ sudo port install mysql Why? I have to...

BDD is still kinky

almost 5 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
I still believe that Behavior-Driven Development is kinkier than Test-Driven Development... ...

Embracing Failure, part 1

almost 5 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
I’m currently reading To Engineer is Human, by Henry Petroski and found the following applicable to software development and managing client and customer...

Happy Birthday Allison

almost 5 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
This morning was delightful. I woke up to find that 37signals had referenced our website on Signal vs Noise this morning. In particular, they referenced...

Do Your Views in Ruby on Rails need a cleaning service?

almost 5 years ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
I’ve been working on a project with Graeme, and we’re spending some time cleaning up some RHTML views. He posted an article earlier, titled...