Witold Rugowski on web20 wave with Ruby on Rails
Last few weeks were somewhat crazy time. But I’m seeing finish line not so far away and I hope to find more time for blogging in upcoming weeks. At least I have few things to share, which could be interesting for other Rails developers. So let’s start with MySQL and it’s collations. I have wrote …
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For one of my customers I was developing API, wrapped around some older service. This API was meant to be used by new application developed (using RoR of course) by customer itself. Since I was only wrapping old code I could finish quite soon, before main application was ready. The problem was that API was …
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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 …
I’m using NetBeans as my IDE for my Ruby related (and not only) work. Since I’m writing RESTful application I do create a lot of Restful controllers. And I was tired creating Golden Seven actions again and again. So I finally sat and learned a little about NetBeans code templates. So here it comes code …
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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 …