Changeset 3726 adds two little methods to ActiveSupport: Enumerable#group_by and @ Array#in_groups_of@. Enumerable#group_by is for collecting an enumerable into sets, grouped by the result of a block. Useful, for example,...
ObjectiveView, a journal for software developers that focuses each issue on a specific topic, has two Ruby related articles in their latest issue, New Technologies Focus. The first is an...
If you’ve ever tried to properly test complex scenarios involving multiple controller actions, you will notice that the Rails Functional Tests fall flat. The new Integration Tests, which have just...
Jim Weirich has been using Ruby for ages. He’s one of the early-adopter all-stars from the days before Rails. Rails programmers will be familiar with his wildly popular and influencial...
The Apple Developer Connection has a nice Ruby on Rails tutorial called Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X. As the title suggests, it is aimed...
CUSEC 2006 in Montreal this past January featured a great line up of speakers including Chad Fowler, Kathy Sierra and David Heinemeier Hansson. Except snow storms in the midwest kept...
Today someone on the Rails mailing list asked, innocently enough, “Is there by any chance some document available summarizing all the (major) beautiful new stuff in Rails 1.1?” As is...
Campfire by 37signals has launched. It’s web-based group chat for business where file transfers work reliably and where you have shared access to the logs. It’s also dripping with delicious...
Due to the overwhelming success of selling 400 seats in just a week, RailsConf has been able to extend the venue and open up an additional 150 seats. So if...
MySQL developer Lenz Grimmer has a quick chat with David for the MySQL developer zone. Also, uk.BUILDER.com has a long and insightful interview. David explains how 1.0 should have really...