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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Phenomenal Cosmic Power

Jeff Atwood thinks monkeypatching should frighten you:But if wielding that power doesn’t scare and humble you a little, too, then maybe you should leave the monkeypatching to the really smart monkeys.
Reg Braithwaite thinks it should exhilarate you:And ultimately, that is what this line of code says to me about Ruby. It says that this […]

Revision-Stamp Your Rails Apps

One of my biggest pet peeves in doing QA is when I spend half a day trying to track down why a bug I thought I’d fixed has cropped up again, only to discover that the reporter was looking at an old version of the application. Good revision tracking is vital to doing efficient […]