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How to check if object can be destroyed if it has dependent: restrict associations

I was looking for an easy way to force every request in a functional test in Rails to use a set of parameters by default, regardless of being specified explicitly. This is, every time I write: it "should get index" do get :index end Rails should...

InSTEDD at Pacific Endeavor 2011

For those of you not familiar with it, Nuntium is an open-source tool we developed together with InSTEDD for easily building applications that rely on SMS for communication. Even though several other kinds of channels are supported, such as email or...

Let’s face it: as a developer, I’m lazy. I just want to write just enough code. What is more, I want to reuse it whenever possible. I want it to be abstract. If I’m asked to implement a view which needs a sortable grid, one of those whose rows you...

Thesis in Computer Science

Don’t make me think... nor work more than I’m supposed to

Careful when truncating strings

Nuntium: exponential backoff and new xmpp library

Upgrading to Rails 3: @routes is nil