It’s an oft-stated fact that most disasters result not from a single point of failure but from a combination of failures reinforcing each other. I wouldn’t term the problem I ran into last Friday a disaster, but it certainly cost me several hours of time trying to find a workaround.
Culprit #1: Rails
Rails’ ActiveSupport added […]
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 […]
(The title of this post is intended to be deliberately provocative, as well as being a nod to Steven Colbert’s “The People Destroying America” segments. It’s provocative because I want to get people talking about this issue. I don’t actually think that monkey patching is “destroying” Ruby, but I do think the proliferation of the […]
I spent the afternoon coding an alternative to the ARBS and UnitRecord database-elimination plugins. Definitely scratching a personal itch, as I had a project where I wanted to use one of the above-mentioned libraries but i just couldn’t seem to get them to work. I’m releasing it in hopes others will find it useful too.
Here’s […]