Category Archives: rails

amsterdam.rb

Posted on January 18, 2008 by peter

Januari 28 will be the day of the first gathering of the Amsterdam’s Ruby User Group. I’d like to be there but due to the fact that at that time my wife will be over 40 weeks pregnant… I just … Continue reading →

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Using Rails without a database

Posted on December 4, 2007 by peter

Today I was fiddling with Rails to create a simple web UI on top of some REST services. Therefor I didn’t really need (or is it really didn’t need) a database server. Just writing and running Rails code without a … Continue reading →

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Behavior Driven Development

Posted on October 11, 2007 by peter

Some months ago I visited Aslak Hellesøys’ RSpec presentation at RubyEnRails 2007. I was really intrigued by some of the concepts introduced by RSpec. After checking out the way testing/TDD works in Grails I just had to see if my … Continue reading →

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Proficts’ Javasummercamp on Rails/Grails/Java

Posted on August 26, 2007 by peter

Yesterday I visited Proficts’ Java Summercamp called “Rails en Grails en Java: Nieuwe talen op de JVM”. Which in essence should have been a small seminar on the topic of new languages on the JVM. In reality Charles Nutter presented … Continue reading →

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JRuby evening @ Stroom Hotel Rotterdam

Posted on December 20, 2006 by peter

Yesterday evening I went to the JRuby talk organized by Finalist at the Stroom Hotel in Rotterdam. The presentation (by JRuby gurus Charles O. Nutter and Tom Enebo) was quite similar to the presentation they gave at Javapolis but with … Continue reading →

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Reminder: JRuby talk tomorrow!

Posted on December 18, 2006 by peter

(blatant but really important clone from remvee) Both JRuby super hero’s, Charles and Thomas, will be talking about JRuby tomorrow at Stroom Hotel in Rotterdam. Come and find out why having a Ruby interpreter on the Java platform is a … Continue reading →

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Rails update…

Posted on August 13, 2006 by peter

The small Rails app which I wrote for my wife broke down completely just after the installation of the new version of Rails (the ‘mandatory’ 1.1.5 and 1.1.6) by Dreamhost. Couldn’t get it to work at all, and no sensible … Continue reading →

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Major security flaw in Rails?

Posted on August 9, 2006 by peter

Just after writing my previous post I noticed the following post on one of my incoming RSS feeds: Rails 1.1.5: Mandatory security patch (and more) From the article: This is a MANDATORY upgrade for anyone not running on a very … Continue reading →

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