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Modeling on the Right Side of the Brain
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Call Montréal, Canada 524-949-6869. Tuesday, April 22, 2014. Modeling on the Right Side of the Brain. Update: A transcript exists on Confreak's GitHub translations repository. Update: The presentation is now online. Unfortunately the color has been washed out when the slides were filmed, so I highly recommend you follow along with the slide deck below. Enjoy! If you attended my talk at RailsConf, Modeling on the Right Side of the Brain. Is no longer in print, it can be sourced from Amazon if you wish to ...
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February 2012
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Call Montréal, Canada 524-949-6869. Sunday, February 12, 2012. Heads up: Use spork-rails if you want to use spork 1.0rc in your Rails project. If you are using Spork. 10rc in your Rails project and wondering why your controllers etc are not reloading, it's because this functionality has been extracted to the spork-rails. And factory girl rails. Posted by Nicholas Henry. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Get notified of a new posting:. Subscribe in a Reader. 370 Fairmount Avenue Quest.
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Talk: Meet Trello
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Call Montréal, Canada 524-949-6869. Tuesday, October 8, 2013. A couple of months ago I gave a presentation on Trello. For a lunch and learn at Dynamo. Trello is a collaborative project planning tool that I was trying out at the time. This presentation shares my findings on how to use Trello for project management in an agile development context. Enjoy! Posted by Nicholas Henry. Get notified of a new posting:. Subscribe in a Reader. To develop your next web application. Recently Launched: Quarterly Co.
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June 2014
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Call Montréal, Canada 524-949-6869. Friday, June 20, 2014. Talk: Don't Commit Your Secrets. On Tuesday this week, I presented a talk to Montreal.rb. On keeping your application secrets safe. Posted below is the video, slides and some follow-up questions during and after the presentation. Enjoy! How can I remove a secret from your Git repository? GitHub has an excellent post on how to do this: Remove sensitive data. How can I keep my secrets safe with an application pre-Rails 4.1? Check out these options:.
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Talk: Don't Commit Your Secrets
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Call Montréal, Canada 524-949-6869. Friday, June 20, 2014. Talk: Don't Commit Your Secrets. On Tuesday this week, I presented a talk to Montreal.rb. On keeping your application secrets safe. Posted below is the video, slides and some follow-up questions during and after the presentation. Enjoy! How can I remove a secret from your Git repository? GitHub has an excellent post on how to do this: Remove sensitive data. How can I keep my secrets safe with an application pre-Rails 4.1? Check out these options:.
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April 2013
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Call Montréal, Canada 524-949-6869. Saturday, April 27, 2013. Task Lists in Our Pull Requests. Note: This was originally posted to the Dynamo Blog. Since we have been using Pull Requests to drive development. Over a month or so now, GitHub Task Lists. You can use task lists to break down large issues and discourage the creation of many microscopic issues, allowing you to focus on interacting with the list instead of editing Markdown. A Task List can be created in PR comments using GitHub Flavored Markdown.
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March 2012
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Call Montréal, Canada 524-949-6869. Friday, March 9, 2012. Testing Terminology: Spies, Stubs and Mocks. When referring to the definitions of Spies, Stubs and Mocks I like to return to XUnit Test Patterns. We use a Test Double to. Capture the indirect output calls. Made to another component by the SUT for later verification by the test.". We replace a real object with a test-specific object that feeds the desired indirect inputs into the SUT.". SUT is an abbreviation for System Under Test. 370 Fairmount A...
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November 2012
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Call Montréal, Canada 524-949-6869. Friday, November 30, 2012. Have you tried ctags with Vim? After reading Mislav Marohnić's excellent post on Vim. I decided to add ctags to my development environment. What does it buy you? It allows you to jump to method or class definitions with these commands:. Setup is pretty easy:. You can generate tags with:. But you probably won't want to do all that manually. As Mislav points out in his post, Tim Pope shows us how to automate tag generation with git hooks. Index...
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Vendoring Binaires on Heroku: An Example with Aspell
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Call Montréal, Canada 524-949-6869. Tuesday, October 8, 2013. Vendoring Binaires on Heroku: An Example with Aspell. Recently I needed to install the Aspell. For a side project. By default a Heroku Dyno doesn't include any non-essential libraries so your left to install these on your own. This introduced me to the world of buildpacks and an awesome build tool that Heroku provides to get the job done. The objective is to have a Rails application running with FFI: Aspell. Https:/ github.com/peterkeen/he...
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Rails: undefined method `action' for YourController:Class
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Call Montréal, Canada 524-949-6869. Monday, October 7, 2013. Rails: undefined method `action for YourController:Class. You will receive this error if you have created your controller class manually (i.e. without the Rails generators) and have not inherited from. This is easily fixed by adding. As the parent. Note the change on line #1. Posted by Nicholas Henry. Get notified of a new posting:. Subscribe in a Reader. To develop your next web application. Installation instructions for Quarto on OSX.
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