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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...

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

This week we’ve updated nuntium to version 2.8, yay! Aside from some minor bug fixes, nuntium now implements an exponential backoff strategy when a message delivery fails. Previously, it worked like this: A message failed to be delivered. If the...

Upgrading to Rails 3: @routes is nil

Introducing cukecooker: writing cucumber scenarios with aid

Gettext C# Utilities

As an intermezzo in the blog posts regarding my thesis, I’d like to point out an unexpected (or at least, unexpected for me) behaviour in Python’s way of constructing default arguments. Suppose we have the following python class MyClass, with an initializer...

Introduction Disclaimer: this section is just happy talking, if you want to get right to the beef, skip it and go right to the beef. Yesterday was a sad day for me. It wasn’t meant to be like that. I began the day with the intention of setting up...

Many times we end up having similar tests: same logic but different inputs and expected outputs. For example, suppose we need to test our brand new sqrt function: test "sqrt 1" do assert_equals 1, sqrt(1) end test "sqrt 4" do assert_equals 2,

Deleting children with accepts_nested_attributes_for in Rails