How did I overcome TDD fear

I was using Rails for over two years, but I still was not truly converted to TDD. There was no special reason for it, I have tried few times with my own projects to take TDD approach. And I was quickly returning to plain, old code crunching. Why? Maybe I haven’t approached TDD with enough …

Simple search in Rails applications

Almost every application does need search feature. Even if not direct feature You need some efficient way to narrow data selection. And I do like to have clean and compact code :) so I have spent some time to create my own search schema which I’d like to share with You. First – what I’m …

Rake and arguments for tasks

Rake is beautiful tool, helping automate many tasks using Ruby. When You want to pass some arguments You can add VAR=value on command line and then in task use ENV[‘VAR’] to access passed value. But it is not what You alway want. Sometimes You want more compact and clean way to pass arguments. Starting with …

NetBeans, Subversion, SSH and Windows

I have wasted a lot time to fight simple issue. I need to use Subversion on svn+ssh protocol with NetBeans. I was using NB Subversion FAQ, and could not get it up and running. On Windows there is de facato standard of SSH client – it is PuTTY. I was using plink to provide access …