getting started with drupal
Emeline Glynn and Anthony Glynn gave a helpful talk called “How to teach anyone Drupal in 7 months.” The timeline was based on their experience where Anthony, an experience Drupal developer, taught...
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Bryan Braun (@bryanebraun) gave a refreshingly opinionated talk Empowering Content Creators with Drupal. Coming directly from the Ruby and Rails communities where a core value is to articulate best...
View Articlerails 4 with mongodb on osx
This post covers getting started with Rails 4 and Mongodb, using the Mongoid gem. As part of getting up to speed, I enjoyed reading Rails + Mongo take on the object-relational mismatch by Emily Stolfo...
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rails 4 twitter omniauth with mongodb
If you are brand new to MongoDB and Rails 4, take a quick look at my very basic rails 4 mongodb tutorial before diving into this one. Gems: mongoid, omniauth, figaro Let’s get started Make sure you...
View Articlerspec: mixing transcations and truncation database clearner strategies
I’m using capybara-webkit for integration testing with rspec, which is awesome, because it is faster than other full-browser testing solutions, like Selenium, but it is slower than RackTest (default...
View Articleruby to find latitude/longitude for a list of cities
I have a relatively short list of cities which I want to plot on a world map. The list is a little too long for a manual lookup, but I don’t know exactly how I’ll use it in an app, so I figured out how...
View Articlejekyll dektop app with node-webkit on osx
I had an idea this morning that I could make a simple desktop app by combining the lightning-fast website generation capabilities of jekyll with the awesome Node-Webkit that lets us native wrappers for...
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time tracking with google calendar
I just created a very lightweight time tracking system where we can use a Google Calendar to track who does what when and then get a spreadsheet that shows all of the hours worked by individuals. It...
View Articlerspec 3 upgrade: conversion of should to expect
update: follow the rspec upgrade guide and try the transpec gem Upgrading a Rails app to RSpec 3, I appreciated Jake Boxer’s guide. However, his regular expressions didn’t work in the editors I use, so...
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simple test first express setup & tutorial
It has been surprisingly hard to find a very simple tutorial to get started with Express, along with some common helpful tools, including tests! Here’s a little tutorial for Node.js v0.10 and Express...
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