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Welcome to the future

almost 5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Welcome to anyone visiting from DHH’s blog. Here you shall find many treasures you’ll probably use in the future. Not right now, perhaps, but...

“Reads -> slaves, writes -> master” plugin

almost 5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic. [Linked from: Mike Does Tech]
Another solution to multiple connections in Rails has been put together by the Revolution Health team. Look at this sweet database.yml syntax: dbs: ...

Aliases to the latest branch folder you’re working on

almost 5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
For my Rails and RubyGem projects I’ll run multiple branches plus a trunk. The trunk represents the live, public/production code, and the branches...

An Interview with Dr Nic

almost 5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Do you want answers to questions like: What do you think about the current Twitter vs DHH discussion? How did you come by with the Magic Model solution...

Railsconf - the sessions I’ll be attending

almost 5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
http://myconfplan.com/conferences/RailsConf2007/users/drnic This is a new site called MyConfPlan, built using Hobo, on Rails. Hobo is awesome, but more...

Railsconf => 4 tracks; JavaOne => simultaneous 14 tracks!!

almost 5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
MyConfPlan now includes all the sessions for next month’s JavaOne conference. It is huge! 400+ sessions, with up to 14 simultaneous sessions. I&...

My railsconf sessions in my sidebar

almost 5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Jesse Newland got the JSON API a day ago and already built a reusable Javascript widget to show conference session selections on his blog sidebar. So I...

12 new Railsconf sessions

almost 5 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
The expansion of the Railsconf schedule has added a dozen new sessions, so I’ve added them to RailsConf2007 on MyConfPlan. I personally am keen to...

RejectConf at RailsConf

over 4 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
At last year’s RubyConf, Ryan Davis (zenspider) and Jacob Harris organised a RejectConf late one night. Apparently it was a great event that included...

Functional Testing using a Matrix to cover all edge cases [video]

over 4 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic. [Linked from: Polishing Ruby]
I’ve been a fan of Ryan Davis‘ (zenspider) and Eric Hodel‘ ZenTest library (including its autotest CI tool for rails and gems), and their...