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  1. the more things change...

    Including AJAX in Rails views.

    Jared Carroll
    July 23, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
  2. when things happen

    Recently in a Rails app, I ran into a strange bug. In this app, we had users...

    Jared Carroll
    July 20, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
  3. against convention

    In Rails we have these nice things we can use in our controllers called...

    Jared Carroll
    July 19, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
  4. pure class

    Specifying your domain model associations in Rails is all done in Ruby and...

    Jared Carroll
    July 17, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
  5. intention

    Now conditional logic asks questions, which sucks, but its always still in...

    Jared Carroll
    July 16, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
  6. what

    Here’s one that might get you Rails developers: class Comment <...

    Jared Carroll
    July 12, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
  7. ints or strings

    Occasionally when developing an app you have to break out an enumeration. ...

    Jared Carroll
    July 10, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
  8. a compromise

    On a sidebar in the latest edition of Agile Web Development I noticed...

    Jared Carroll
    July 9, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
  9. muck focking

    Most of the time in my tests I mock out all external resources, e.g. file...

    Jared Carroll
    July 6, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Testing
  10. any? != ! empty?

    A common Ruby/Rails idiom used in views looks like the following: <% if...

    Jared Carroll
    July 5, 2007
    • Web
    • Rails
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