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Help Vampires: A Spotter’s Guide

Posted on December 22, 2006, 3:34 am, by Amy Hoy, under pages.

It’s so regular you could set your watch by it. The decay of a community is just as predictable as the decay of certain stable nuclear isotopes. As soon as an open source project, language, or what-have-you achieves a certain notoriety—its half-life, if you will—they swarm in, seemingly draining the very life out of the […]

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Secrets of the Rails Console Ninjas

Posted on December 21, 2006, 6:23 pm, by Amy Hoy, under articles, development, pages, rails, tips and tricks.

Have you ever used the Rails console? I’d love to see a show of hands (or comments, really). If not—boy, are you in for a treat. The console lets you fiddle with parts of your Rails app—models especially—in a real-time environment, instead of waiting for page reloads and clicking on links and using object dumps […]