Ivan Enviroman

Maintainable Software: Rails Logging Tips

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Ruby on Rails comes prewired for logging using Logger from the Ruby Standard Library. This article by Mike Zaberezny demonstrates how to use the Rails logger, how to create your own logs, and offers some tips for debugging with console logging.

Read more | Comments (0) | September 29, 2009

Outside In Development With Cucumber

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Another great slideshow on cucumber and behavior driven development.

Read more | Comments (0) | September 26, 2009

The LAZY Developer’s Guide to BDD (with Cucumber)

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A good explanation of Behavior Driven Development with Cucumber

Read more | Comments (0) | September 26, 2009

Don’t Stop Supporting IE6

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Just don't work too hard at it - send them the printer stylesheet or something!

Read more | Comments (0) | September 24, 2009

Ruby on Rails Code Quality Checklist – Matthew Paul Moore

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Rails best practices. There's a growing need to ensure that code and design strategies maintain an extremely high level of quality across different projects. Ruby has hugely different (and better!) ways of OO design, and the Rails framework has a lot of opinions to be understood and remembered.

Read more | Comments (0) | September 17, 2009

Tutorial on ruby-debug

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A useful cheat sheet for ruby debugging using the ruby-debug gem.

Read more | Comments (0) | September 3, 2009

Massive Regular Expressions Toolbox | tripwire magazine

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One of the best articles on regular expressions that I've found.

Read more | Comments (0) | August 30, 2009

Send photos from iPhoto to Wordpress using Ruby : RubyFlow

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A cool little Ruby command line script to send selected photos from iPhoto to a draft post in a WordPress blog. Uses AppleScript and XMLRPC

Read more | Comments (0) | August 30, 2009

Generate Random Passwords

Posted by ivanoats | Filed under Technology, software

I wrote an article on the Sustainable Websites Blog on a quick program to Generate Random Passwords.

Tags: mac, password, ruby, scripts, shell

Read more | Comments (0) | August 9, 2009

Summer 2009 Photos

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I got a DSLR camera! Thanks Nicole! I am super excited to use it. Not all of these photos are from it, just the last ones.

Tags: photos

Read more | Comments (0) | July 31, 2009