2009-06-09- Today’s Ruby/Rails Reading
Quick article on the importance of small bits of text on your website - microcopy
A List Apart: Articles: Indexing the Web—It’s Not Just Google’s Business
How and why to index with MySQL examples. Also some tips on optimization like how to watch for full table scans using slow query logs or EXPLAIN and restricting queries to just the columns you need.
Ruby on OS X Conference Videos · Fingertips
A collection of Ruby on OS X Conference Videos(M4V and torrent links): How I built LimeChat by Satoshi Nakagawa. Introduction to HotCocoa by Rich Kilmer. Introduction to Rucola by Eloy Duran. Building games with MacRuby and OpenGL by John Shea. Testing Cocoa applications with Ruby by Manfred Stienstra. Experiences from PyObjC by Koen Bok. Showing off RubyStein 3D and Gosu by Ninh Bui & Julian Raschke.
13 Must-Have Add-ons To Strengthen Firebug
Collection of addons for firebug, the indispensable web development plugin for firefox (and others now)
Adam Goucher » Blog Archive » Scaling Rails
Nice summary of the Scaling Rails videos from Pivotal Labs
Building a Forum From Scratch with Ruby on Rails - Nettuts+
Nice detailed introductory level rails tutorial
Great list of how to setup a fresh project - Iteration zero - repository, skeleton app, gem setup, developer test setup, integration test setup, continuous integration, deployment script, app monitoring and finally setup your CI to run a code metric check. Budget about a week for two devs.
The Better You Program, The Worse You Communicate (4 reasons why).
1. D.R.Y. Does Not Apply.
2. Humans don’t mean what they say.
3. Programs don’t need to see an example.
4. Programs love definitions; Humans get flummoxed.
Selenium and CruiseControl.rb - RailsOnWave Ruby on Rails web 2.0 Ajax
Instructions for moving your selenium tests to your CruiseControl Continuous Integration server.
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