Month: October 2008
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Django, anyone?
I do write this blog in English (duh, at least I try :) ) but according to Google Analytics readers from Poland are quite numerous so… Friend of mine (Marcin Kaszy?ski) in October will run workshops “Creating applications with Django“. If You want to learn about Django framework You have good opportunity to gain some…