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I live in San Francisco and am the Co-Founder of Two Bit Labs where we develop iPhone, iPad, and Android mobile apps for our clients. I love the mix of team leadership and working as a hands-on contributor. My technical passions include Swift, Kotlin, Ruby, Cloud Computing, and open-source software.
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Category Archives: Ruby
Acceptance Testing non Ruby web applications with Cucumber
If you’re looking for the sample Standalone Cucumber Test Suite to get you started testing non Ruby based applications with Cucumber, here’s the source: http://github.com/thuss/standalone-cucumber. Sometimes you inherit a non Ruby based web app written in PHP, Perl, Java, C#, … Continue reading
Posted in Continuous Integration, Java, Quality Assurance, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Testing, Web
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Code readability through conciseness
One of the things I love about newer languages like Ruby and Scala (and to a degree Python and Groovy) are the language features that allow you to dial conciseness up or down for readability. Take for instance the typical … Continue reading
Posted in Java, Ruby, Scala, Software Engineering
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Standalone Migrations: Using Rails migrations in non Rails projects
Update 8/7/2010: Standalone migrations is now a gem (sudo gem install standalone_migrations) so disregard the outdated installation instructions below Update 7/8/2009: With the latest batch of contributed patches standalone migrations now works just like Rails migrations Update 12/26/2008: I switched … Continue reading
Posted in Database, Java, Linux, MySQL, Ruby, Ruby on Rails
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Search Engine Friendly URLs with Ruby on Rails
Update 2/5/07: I’ve since discovered five plugins that address this very problem with slightly different approaches (the latter two store a permalink in the table, good for mutable titles): acts_as_sluggable acts_as_urlnameable acts_as_slugable acts_as_friendly_param permalink_fu Obie’s recent post on search engine … Continue reading
Ruby on Rails Dreamhost plugin
Update 2/11/07: Just to clarify, this plugin won’t keep your Rails site running on Dreamhost if the sum of all your running processes exceeds 200MB (which is when their process monitor kills your processes). Run ps aux and sum the … Continue reading
Posted in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Systems Administration
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Keeping Rails running at Dreamhost Part 2
Update 2/2/07: Per Thomas’ comment I’ve released the code below as the dreamhost rails plugin. Update 1/25/07: People have reported difficulties copy and pasting the dispatch.fcgi source code from this blog post so here is a dispatch.fcgi to download. Make … Continue reading
Posted in Linux, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Systems Administration, Web
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Switching from Edge Rails to 1.2 stable with Piston
Update 1/25/07: Francois pointed out that now as of Piston 1.3.0 you can now do this all with the following command: piston switch http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/tags/rel_1-2-1 vendor/rails For starters, if you’re still using svn:externals to manage your vendor/rails directory it’s time to … Continue reading
Posted in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Source Control
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An interview with the authors of JRuby
The Java Posse hosted a great podcast interview with the authors of JRuby: Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo. Additionally you get to hear what Tor Norbye is up to with his work on NetBeans Ruby integration and it looks like … Continue reading
Posted in Java, Ruby, Software Engineering
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Keeping Ruby on Rails running at Dreamhost
Update 1/12/07: This solution has reduced my 500 error rate down to less than 0.2% but it’s still not perfect. I continue to plug away at this… Update 1/24/07: I’ve finally solved my Dreamhost 500 error problems with a different … Continue reading
Posted in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Systems Administration, Web
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The Rails Way delivers the goods
I had a piece of data import code in Wind and Tides that I just knew could be cleaner and more elegant. Last week I submitted it to Jamis and Michael who write the Rails Way blog and their refactoring … Continue reading
Posted in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Software Engineering
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