Kleine Ergänzung: Falls jemand von euch mit mir arbeiten möchte, ich bin ab ungefähr Mitte des Jahres wieder für neue Projekte zu haben. Konkrete Fragen zu dem Thema beantworte ich aber auch gerne per Mail. Andere Leute mit Erfahrungen in dem Bereich in Hamburg sind Manuel Wiedenmann und Adam Hawkins
Read moreThinking that you have pretty profound UNIX knowledge? Think again if you don't know how to strace. This introduction to strace by Chad Fowler finally persuaded me to check out this little UNIX tool. I made several attempts in the past, but each time I attached it to a running
Read moreThis is what got me started writing this post: In the Rails world, we are holding up the DRY principle high. One outcome of this is that people do put stuff that has to be done for many applications into gems, to be reused. Authentication is such a case, as
Read moreI am currently working on a project that requires me to scope nearly all database queries by customer_id, because, you probably get the idea, each and every customer has its own set of data. Furthermore, the Customer class does not inherit from ActiveRecord::Base, nor is it an ActiveModel
Read moreWe all like the "Fat models, skinny controllers"-rule, but what to do if your models are becoming too fat? Split them up into smaller chunks, exactly. Of course this technique works for other classes, too. The first thing to do, is to check whether the module you're looking at
Read moreForget what you read here before, and just do the following: curl -O http://files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/ruby-debug19/linecache19-0.5.13.gem curl -O http://files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/ruby-debug19/ruby-debug-base19-0.11.26.gem gem install {linecache19-0.5.13.gem,ruby-debug-base19-0.11.26.gem} \ --
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