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February 21, 2012

Love Your Lib Directory

by Brian Cardarella

Too many Rails developers incorrectly use and abuse the lib/ directory. I will demonstrate the importance of maintaing conventions in the lib/ directory that conform to what Rubygems is expecting, some "gotchas" if you are not careful, and a pattern I have been using to extract non-application specific code into the lib/ directory as a jumping off point to then eventually extracting that code as a Rubygem

January 10, 2012

Valid Attribute, Stasis, and ruby-debug

by Brian Cardarella

Don't test your validation implementation! ValidAttribute is a new take on how you should be testing your model attribute validations. Stasis quickly allows you to expose a directory and its assets to a browser Debug your code with ruby-debug