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Rails provides several handy options for specifying how to deal with associated models upon deletion, for example: class Blog has_many :posts, :dependent => :destroy end The destroy value for the dependent option will call the destroy method for...

Default request parameters in Rails functional tests

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

One of our Rails applications has to consume an RSS. Nothing fancy here, we simply wanted to extract some fields from each item and store them in the PostgreSQL DB (app was hosted on heroku). Simply slicing the string seemed to work at first: summary

Nuntium: exponential backoff and new xmpp library

Upgrading to Rails 3: @routes is nil