A list of specific blog posts (not written by me) that I believe are helpful for a Rails developer:

Development

• Matt Brictson on Lightning-Fast Sass Reloading in Rails 3.2. How to get CodeKit like reloads with your rails project. This little task is amazing, and will greatly speed stylistic chages.
• Bryan Helmkamp on 7 …

Below is a short review of classes and modules. This post is written so I can cement these concepts for myself. The source material is Metaprogramming Ruby and is mainly a rephrasing of concepts from it. If you would like to understand more, I recommend the book.

Objects

Starting for the bottom, the most basic unit is, …

Read

• Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails
• Eloquent Ruby [Review]({% post_url 2013-08-27-book-review:-eloquent-ruby %})
• Metaprogramming Ruby
• The RSpec Book [Review]({% post_url 2013-09-14-book-review:-the-rspec-book %})
• Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
• Objects on Rails
• David …

Objects

• objects are collections of instance variables and a link to their class

Classes

• Classes are instances of Class which is a subclass of Module
• CamelCased

Instance Variables

• Objects of the same class can have different sets of instance variables as they only exist upon assignment

Method calls

• The object …

I needed to upgrade my linux server’s hard drive from a traditional HDD to a SSD. Unfortunately the old hard drive was 80 GB and the new one is 64 GB. There are commercial programs for this purpose but I figured I could do it with freeware. To that end, you will need:

1. Linux live CD (anything with Gparted on it …

In an effort to gain a better understand of the full stack in web development I tasked myself with improving my static pages. While I am concurrently learning web application development, I thought it would be beneficial to try and solve and better understand a static page. What follows are the simple tricks and tools …

Switch to remote branch

git fetch
git checkout -b **local** **remote/branch**

Merge branch back into master

git checkout master
git merge **branchname**

Delete remote branch

git push origin :**branchname**

Ubuntu 12.04 breaks netatalk and when you try to login in to the apple share you will get errors such as this in /var/log/syslog:

Jun 14 13:03:13 GlaDoS afpd[4395]:
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Jun 14 13:03:13 GlaDoS afpd[4395]: INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 4395 (2.2.1)
Jun 14 …

Soft raid setup with mdadm

I have a Raid-6 running and it currently has 6 drives. My Mobo has 6 sata ports, one of which is used up for the boot drive (not involved in the array). The sixth array drive is on a PCI sata/raid card. The server is headless, which is important because I do not want degraded array events to …

Create a controller without tests.

rails generate controller {controller name} {views/methods} --no-test-framework

Create integration test

rails generate integration_test {test_name}

Roll back a migration

rake db:rollback

Rspec test for Mass Assign Vulnerbility (or attribute not being accessible):

describe …