It’s time to say goodbye!

Well, last 6 years I was using Windows as a main OS for my home/developer computers. Partly it was not mine decision, since my employers required me to run Windows. But, since I’ve jumped out of regular 9to5 two years ago this was not true anymore. It was convenient for me to use Windows, and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Shuffling RubyGems versions

I do some Facebook work for my customer, and when I checked out current source into my dev environment, application didn’t want to work :) Basically Facebook related code did not initialized properly. I was curious what is causing it and finally gave up (RFacebook plugin upgrade did the job), but it seemed that it …