rails Serving Assets from S3 on Heroku Recently I changed NSScreencast to use a CDN to serve up assets from a different, faster server. Why use a CDN? Using a CDN has numerous benefits. First, and foremost, this alleviates a
rails Is Rails Exempt? If you've been following the Ruby community recently, you'd notice that there's are people calling our Rails (and Rails developers) for treating Rails as if it is somehow exempt from long-standing software principles.
rails Rails Intrigue Video at NHDNUG I gave a presentation at the North Houston .NET User Group a couple weeks ago entitled "Rails Intrigue". My friend, Claudio Lassala recorded it and posted the video on YouTube. In the presentation,
rails Dry up Your Rspec Files with subject & let Blocks Rspec is pretty awesome, however due to its flexibility, often times I find that people write specs in ways that either a) aren't structured very well, or b) use the wrong terminology to
rails Using CarrierWave with Mongoid I'm moving a side project over to Rails 3, and I purposely chose a set of technologies that I hadn't used yet. Rails 3 Mongoid (hosted on MongoHQ) Haml CarrierWave (for file uploads)
rails Installing PostgreSQL for Rails on Mac OS X If you're doing any serious Rails work with Heroku you'll eventually want to run the same database server they are, namely PostgreSQL. One such reason is if you plan on using Geokit, all