My Journey on Rails, Part 5: Tests
Last time, I was in the middle of plotting and scheming the addition of UJS to my search form and decided that now would be a great time to stop procrastinating my test harness. I’ve had some experience with TDD in the past, but as …
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My Journey on Rails, Part 4: ERB to Haml
Note: This installment was planned, originally, to cover a twofer of topics. I’ll talk about why I chose not to at the end of the article.
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My Journey on Rails, Part 3: Advanced Search Form
On to my next task! An advanced search form. Following along to the revised version of RailsCasts Episode #111, I find that most of my newbie stumbles are around what to pluralize and when (between the classes themselves and the collections of instances themselves) and …
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My Journey on Rails, Part 2: Authentication Model
Alas; work happens! I also took time out to skim some of the UC Berkeley SaaS class. The quality of the course is good, but I found myself ahead of many of the software engineering concepts and ended up toying with several of the exercises …
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My Journey on Rails, Part 1: Tools and Importing Data
We at Wagger Designs have been brewing up a custom web application for some time now. This blog series, in several parts, will follow my research and development process of taking our app from idea to reality. I’ll be sharing techniques and workarounds to issues that …
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