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Let's Push Things Forward: September 2009
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Let's Push Things Forward. Monday, September 28, 2009. Seed data in Rails 2.3.4. Very nice addition to Rails as part of the security updates in 2.3.4- an easy way to load seed data. Added db/seeds.rb as a default file for storing seed data for the database. Can be loaded with rake db:seed (or created alongside the db with db:setup). (This is also known as the "Stop Putting Gawd Damn Seed Data In Your Migrations" feature). Posted by Matt McKnight. Links to this post. Thursday, September 10, 2009. Calls in...
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Let's Push Things Forward: October 2012
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Let's Push Things Forward. Friday, October 05, 2012. Should the domain model be separate from the serialization format? For example, if you are using something like Avro. As your serialization format, does it make sense to have all of the objects in your domain modeled as objects generated by these technologies or is better to just model them as Plain Old Java Objects. And then find a way to serialize those? There is a great body of knowledge out there that supports not putting a dependency in your code ...
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Let's Push Things Forward: December 2010
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Let's Push Things Forward. Saturday, December 25, 2010. Webber, Paristaditis, Robinson REST in Practice: Hypermedia and Systems Architecture. I've been waiting a long time for this book (ever since How to GET a Cup of Coffee. Morville, Search Patterns: Design for Discovery. If you are working on application that includes search and discovery features, this book sets forth a great pattern language. There are tons of examples and ideas here. Fried, Hannson, Rework. The author of the awesome The Red Queen.
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Let's Push Things Forward: Patents
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Let's Push Things Forward. Tuesday, August 21, 2012. The patent system, and intellectual property rights claims in general, are out of control. You may think I am referring to the current Apple v. Samsung case where the invention of the rectangle is in question. I am actually more concerned about the White v. Heinz case. Posted by Matt McKnight. Blog comments powered by Disqus. Smart Solutions @ LMN. Smart Jobs @ LMN. Smart Ideas @ LMN.
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Let's Push Things Forward: Domain Modeling
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Let's Push Things Forward. Friday, October 05, 2012. Should the domain model be separate from the serialization format? For example, if you are using something like Avro. As your serialization format, does it make sense to have all of the objects in your domain modeled as objects generated by these technologies or is better to just model them as Plain Old Java Objects. And then find a way to serialize those? There is a great body of knowledge out there that supports not putting a dependency in your code ...
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Let's Push Things Forward: March 2014
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Let's Push Things Forward. Saturday, March 01, 2014. Another post about nothing. Posted by Matt McKnight. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Smart Solutions @ LMN. Smart Jobs @ LMN. Smart Ideas @ LMN. Another post about nothing.
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Let's Push Things Forward: Rails Fixtures and Seed Data
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Let's Push Things Forward. Saturday, July 11, 2009. Rails Fixtures and Seed Data. One of the things that makes Ruby on Rails a great web framework is the quantity of tools available that are focused around the task of making web applications easy to build and encourage good software engineering practices. UPDATE ALERT. Rails 2.3.4 has a nice, new way to do this. Namespace :fixtures do desc "Load fixtures into the current environment's database. Load specific fixtures using FIXTURES=x,y" task :load = ...
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Let's Push Things Forward: October 2009
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Let's Push Things Forward. Monday, October 26, 2009. Tips for using Rails migrations. Here are a few things we've done in the process of keeping migrations under control:. Don't edit an existing migration, create a new one. Editing an existing migration defeats the whole point. You might be able to get away with it if no one has run it. One obvious exception to this is if someone creates a migration that doesn't run and checked in. They must get the pig. Assign models to class owners. Once you've been go...
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Let's Push Things Forward: Default route...
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Let's Push Things Forward. Thursday, September 10, 2009. One of the things that has been bothering me in Rails since everything switched to resources is how we lost the easy way any public method in the controller became an accessible URL without having to write a rule for it. For example, in a person controller, I could define a search method like this:. Def search results = Person.seach(params[:q]) end. And it would be accessible, just like that. http:/ myapp/people/search? In any case,. I even wrote a...
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Let's Push Things Forward: Money for Music
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Let's Push Things Forward. Thursday, November 15, 2012. Reading this semi-widely shared piece. It's more like a radio station with 7,000 listeners playing it once. How much is Galaxie 500 making in radio royalties? I haven't heard them on the radio for 15 years. They should be comparing their $1.21 to $0.00. Posted by Matt McKnight. Reading this semi-widely shared piece. It's more like a radio station with 7,000 listeners playing it once. How much is Galaxie 500 making in radio royalties? Smart Jobs @ LMN.
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