• RailsConf 2014

    Today wrapped up RailsConf 2014 in Chicago, Illinois and I have to say that it was quite a good time. This was my first RailsConf and it definitely lived up to its reputation. From DHH trolling that TDD is nonsense in his Keynote speech to Tenderlove making a live merge of the "AdequateRecord" branch into Rails master it was never a dull moment.

    April 25, 2014 - 2 minute read - ruby rails railsconf2014
  • Ruby Dir "Random" on Linux but Alphabetical on OSX

    Recently after a co-worker pushed code to our continuous integration server Jenkins was saying that the build was broken and that a constant was being called that wasn’t initialized. What was strange is that the code my co-worker pushed ran just fine when I ran it on my work Mac Laptop as well as some of my other co-workers Mac Laptops. This has to be some sort of weird Mac / Linux difference.

    July 3, 2013 - 2 minute read - jenkins linux mac rspec ruby rails
  • Test::Unit or MiniTest must be loaded *before* Mocha

    I recently ran bundle update on an older rails application that I had been developing. I added a few specs and when I went to run them I was greeted with the following error:

    July 12, 2012 - 2 minute read - gem mocha rails rspec ruby
  • Data Munging in Ruby on Rails

    It has been awhile since my last blog post and quite a lot has happened. Since my last blog post I have completed a large Drupal 5 to Drupal 7 migration (The d5 to d7 migration has actually been an ongoing endeavor that was finally completed after a years worth of development), implemented authorization via cancan on this blog, and implemented nested comments via polymorphic associations and the ancestry gem on this blog. I should have quite a lot to talk about now!

    June 23, 2012 - 3 minute read - data munging migrations ruby rails rake