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Chad Fowler surveyed his Twitter audience and came up with 20 Rails Development No-No's. It makes for entertaining reading.
In short, people hate:
- Code in views
- Bad tabbing / spacing indentation
- Lack of tests
- Misuse of Single Table Inheritance
- Poor exception handling
- Ruby idioms they don't understand
- Rails idioms…
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Peter Cooper on March 28, 2009 :
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Harsh (or Github repository) is "another Rails syntax highlighter" that comes in plugin form and makes it easy to perform syntax highlighting on code in your Rails views. Harsh works in both Erb and Haml views, adopting a rather interesting configuration syntax for…
A few months ago Mike Gunderloy wrote 3 Plugins for Safer ActiveRecord Deletions for Rails Inside and mentioned acts_as_paranoid, a plugin that flags ActiveRecord objects as deleted without actually deleting them (this is useful if you might need to "undo" the…
"Better" Rails documentation efforts aren't anything new but Vladimir Kolesnikov's attempt titled "Rails Searchable API Doc" is notable for its simplicity and smart presentation. He hasn't changed the usual IRB layout except to add a rather Mac-looking search frame to…
The "longer than average release candidate phase" is now over and Rails 2.3.2 (don't ask about the .2) has been released. At least, the gems have been pushed to RubyForge and you can now install it with gem install rails,…
A couple of weeks ago, Olimpiu Metiu got in touch with me to tell me about his new Rails magazine, Rails Magazine. We've heard a lot of promises about English-language Rails magazines in the past but little has materialized (not…
Back in January, Planet Argon (a company with a very long history in developing and hosting Rails apps) launched a Rails Hosting Survey. They wanted to find out stuff about Rails developers, their deployment requirements, their experience, what tools they use, and…
FancyRoutes (or Github repo) is a new Rails plugin that provides a less crufty way to define routes, developed by TRED (a team of Australian Rubyists, including Chris Lloyd, Myles Byrne, Tim Lucas, Carl Woodward - amongst others).
FancyRoutes is just a layer…
It was over a month ago that Rails 2.3 Release Candidate 1 was released with the note that it'd be a "longer than average release candidate phase" due to all of the amazing things that are going in to 2.3. So…
If you're a Rails developer, the current recession needn't be too hard.. well, depending on where you live! There are quite a few good Rails jobs going out there. If you're looking for one you're in the right place! Recently…
