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 …
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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...
How to mock an out of process COM server with C#
I am currently working to replace a legacy command line front end on a COM out of process server.
Using stock ruby with rbenv
While migrating to ruby 1.9, I started using rbenv. I was wondering how it would handle my stock ubuntu ruby 1.8. It works out of the box with the rbenv “sys...
Devise, SSL requirements and post data
I am using rails 2.3.8, devise 1.0.11 and ssl_requirements 0.1.0. I am having strange behaviour when mixing devise with ssl_requirements. When a form posts t...
Scaling Agile
I have worked in small agile teams, and it does indeed work a lot better than the classical waterfall & hierarchic environment. When speaking with other ...
A useful link to find free pictures
While I was looking for photos for an article on blog for mes-courses.fr, I found this site : http://www.photo-libre.fr. There are a lot of pictures, both €-...