Motivation game
At MegaCorp where I am currently working, there is a small team that is dedicated to find solutions to software bugs that regularly happen in production. The...
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Rails autoload good practices
I started using rails autoload to load files in my lib folder of http://www.mes-courses.fr. Before that, I had been using hand written require statements, an...
Rails url_helpers mixup when using rails engines
I just tried to integrate the blogit rails engine directly inside www.mes-courses.fr. Up till now, I was using a separated radiant app to deal with the blog ...
Hackers et peintres
This is a french translation of the famous Hackers and painters essay written by Paul Graham.
Setting up Postgre 9.1 for rails development
I am using rails to build www.mes-courses.fr. I use ubuntu for my development os, and heroku for deployment. As heroku enforces the usage of Postgre, I chose...
Ruby thirdparties best practices
I am just finishing migrating www.mes-courses.fr from rails 2 to rails 3, and I can assure that I learnt these lessons the hard way …
stub_model and mock_model
I decided to stop using stub_model and mock_model. I do not use them enough to get fluent with them. Every time I have to deal with them, something breaks in...
Including Rails.application.routes.url_helpers from a module
When I migrated from rails 2.0 to rails 3.0, I had to change inclusion of ActionController::UrlWriter to Rails.application.routes.url_helpers. I started to g...