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The archives for ruby on rails

1. Evolving style after six months on Rails

   It’s coming up to 6 months since I announced my transition from PHP to Ruby and I’m really getting the hang of my new web development toolkit by working on a personal project.

   • 4^th February 2010
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   Tagged with:

   • BDD
   • ruby
   • ruby on rails
   • testing

2. How does behaviour drive development?

   Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) is an adaptation of earlier Test Driven practices (TDD) that’s growing on me, but it’s raised an interesting problem: the order in which to describe desired behaviour so that it actually drives development.

   • 12^th November 2009
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   Tagged with:

   • BDD
   • processes
   • ruby on rails
   • testing

3. Another Snow Leopard upgrade story

   The time had come to upgrade our MacBook Pros to Snow Leopard. Not wishing to break my partner’s laptop, I decided to see if the upgrade route would work using my machine as a testbed. Would I live to regret it…

   • 29^th October 2009
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   Tagged with:

   • apple
   • Mac User
   • ruby on rails
   • snow leopard
   • upgrade

4. Switching to Rails

   I know that a good developer should choose the best tool for the job in hand, but their own productivity and inspiration must inform the decision in selecting the best tool.

   • 30^th August 2009
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   Tagged with:

   • frameworks
   • php
   • productivity
   • ruby
   • ruby on rails
   • testing