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 …

Put’em in the queue

Rails is very good web framework. It works very well, as long You use it as it supposed to be used. Serving web applications means processing HTTP requests (often a lot of them) as fast as possible and send output to the browser. All is fine as long processing is simple and can be done …

How to write DSL (with Acts As Tree in background)

Acts As Tree is useful plugin providing abstract layer for Your models to form tree structures. I was using it recently to store some document structures in DB. Plugin works as a charm and there is not too much to write about. Just follow README ;) But I needed to create documents somehow, and provide …