Setting up a Rails 3 virtual machine using Vagrant and VirtualBox
I recently started bringing other developers on board to help me with a project that up until then I had been the sole developer on....
Notes on Single Table Inheritance (STI) in Rails 3.0
I’m currently working on a project at Panoptic Development that calls for splitting up a single model into two similar models with slightly differing functionality....
Testing model validations in rspec the short and sweet way
There seems to be a divide in the Rails/TDD community over whether you should bother testing your model validations. On the one hand, it's silly...
Named redirect routes in Rails 3
I didn't see this mentioned anywhere in the Rails Guide or in my admittedly cursory Google searches, but apparently it's possible to create named redirect...
It Should Include Only One Of – An RSpec Matcher
I know RSpec tests should typically be implementation/data agnostic, but I ran into a situation in a unit test where I needed to make sure...
Join (implode) an Array of String Values with Formatting
In programming, I often need to join values together from an array. Typically this will be to do something on the backend, like join a...