I found out that I merged a branch that I shouldn’t have. Surely it should be easy to undo this. Sadly no – after researching the documentation I found out that it’s in fact quite difficult. [Read more]

Why use the command line? Because it’s far quicker & more productive than using a GUI. It’s easy to automate & you can search what you’ve previously done. I use the BASH shell which is usually the default. [Read more]

The composed method pattern means breaking up your code into code into quite short, self descriptive methods. The result should be that your code is more readable and easier to debug. [Read more]

Reading notes from Mining the Web, Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Databy Soumen Chakrabarti [Read more]

Have you ever needed to use app routes, eg foo_path(1) or bar_url in ActionMailer and found they’re not available? I’ve needed to generate app routes in plain old classes which do not inherit from Rails classes, eg: [Read more]

I’ve written a gem to simplify creating ActiveRecord clases which don’t need a database table. I’ve found this useful for: [Read more]

Here’s my Ruby / Rails development environment. I use jedit, firefox and gnome-terminal. My operating system of choice is Ubuntu (the rich mans OS X). [Read more]

N.B. Work in progress! Haven’t yet figured out how to declare method private fro m within an instance method. [Read more]

From Continuous Delivery by Farley & Humble. You can check out the book and articles on their web site. [Read more]

Start with a clean slate

1. Triage: move all mail to an archive folder
2. Turn off notifications
3. View unread email only
4. Hide the side bar

Here’s my inbox … [Read more]