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Posts from March 2008

How to move your domains off GoDaddy

Its common internet knowledge that GoDaddy is one of the worst, most unfriendly registrars out there. Go to NoDaddy for all sorts of nasty things that GoDaddy that make them completely disreputable, or google “godaddy sucks” for a thousand other reasons.
What’s less common is knowing how to actually get your domains off […]


log_buddy Released - your helpful little dev buddy

LogBuddy is your friendly little log buddy at your side, helping you dev, debug, and test. It plays well with Rails and plain old Ruby projects. To use it, sudo gem install log_buddy, then require 'log_buddy' and call LogBuddy.init. It will add two methods to object instance and class level: "d" and [...]


Testing Velocity - Keeping your test suite fast, Part 1

If you are a Ruby or Rails developer, and you know what you are doing, you are writing tests or specs. Tests express the intent of your code, help verify correctness, and aid in design and exploration. Rails gives you helpful conventions to follow and functional and integration testing support for free out [...]


Dave Thomas’ testing library (thrown in github)

Dave recently blogged a very cool little test framework he whipped up. Its under 100 lines of code and he says he definitely does not plan on supporting it publicly.
At the very least I intend on playing with it and incorporating some of the ideas, so I put it up on github. [...]


Staging Environments in Rails

(photo @ flickr)
Most Rails apps that grow beyond the “toy” or “small” stage benefit greatly from the addition of a staging environment. Staging is where you deploy to flush out integration issues, to demo new features to users and clients, and generally put the app through its paces in a “production-like” environment before [...]