Announcing Winners of Free Tickets for Intro to Ruby Course

November 30th, 2010 by

Almost a month ago we made two exciting announcements – the first was that SmartLogic will be hosting an Intro to Ruby1 course on December 10-11, 2010. The second announcement was that we would be giving away one free ticket to a local college/university student and another free ticket away to the co/founder of a local startup company.

Well, we upped the ante and have decided to give away a total of FOUR free tickets. We received a total of 40 submissions and were really encouraged by all of the enthusiastic responses. Without further ado:

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Intro to Ruby on Rails Course Coming to Baltimore

November 3rd, 2010 by

We are pleased to announce that we’ll be hosting an Intro to Ruby on Rails course December 10-11, 2010. The course will be offered by Jumpstart Lab and taught by our friend Jeff Casimir. Jumpstart Lab offers computer science training – for normal people.

The course will be held in our incubator at ETC Canton and will cost $375 for early bird tickets (purchased before November 20) or $450 for normal-priced tickets.

But wait! There’s more. We’re giving away two free tickets to the course: one for a co/founder of a business located in the Greater Baltimore area (you can be a “technical” or “non-technical” cofounder) and another for a student at a local college or university.
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TestPilot – Rails Integration Testing Pattern

October 26th, 2010 by

I’ve been thinking about ways to simplify rails integration testing. I wanted to see how well I could do it without cucumber and rspec. I decided to go pure minitest with capybara to help out. What emerged was the TestPilot pattern. Let’s check it out.
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Testing AJAX with Test::Unit

October 8th, 2010 by

If you want real end-to-end testing of a page with functioning AJAX, use Selenium. But I was interested in doing just a bit of JS speccing to make sure that the AJAX routes I called worked and that the data that came back fit the JS that I had written.

So, I figured with a little capybara and a little therubyracer, I could test my javascript with real route calls. Let’s check it out.
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Nick’s Highlights from Windy City Rails

September 11th, 2010 by

I attended and spoke at Windy City Rails. I tried to take more notes this time. Out of 6 talks an lightning talks, I have ~500 lines of notes. Enjoy!.
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Nick’s Highlights from Ruby Hoedown

September 7th, 2010 by

I attended and spoke at Ruby Hoedown 2010. Below are my notes from the conference.

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Web 2.0 Expo NYC Wrap Up

November 23rd, 2009 by

John and I went to the Web 2.0 Expo in New York City last week to learn about new trends in Web 2.0 and to try meet interesting people in the industry. We had fun, and I even won a Flip Ultra HD from the folks at a party hosted by Rackspace and Neustar. This post includes my notes from various sessions from the weekend.

Ignite NYC

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DRY up your Controllers with find_or_redirect

October 23rd, 2009 by

Do you do this:

  class ModelsController < ApplicationController
    before_filter :find_model
    def show
    end
 
    def destroy
      @model.destroy
    end
 
    private
 
    def find_model
      @model = Model.find_by_id(params[:id])
      unless @model
        redirect_to :action => :index
        flash[:error] = "Invalid model id"
        return false
      end
    end
  end

in every controller? Gets repetitive doesn’t it?
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Mount options to improve ext4 file system performance

June 4th, 2009 by

I recently boosted my rails test suite running time by around 30% by adding certain mount options for my ext4 partition (works for ext3 too). I thought I’d blog about it because the first time I tried my system wouldn’t boot! So here are the step by step instructions:

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Using Sanitize Email to Preview HTML Emails Locally

April 30th, 2009 by

John Trupiano has a great post to get you started with sanitize_email for Ruby on Rails.

I wanted to preview my HTML emails without having to fill up my online email inboxes with tons of email (and then I’d have to make filters too). I also didn’t want to manage actually sending real email. So, I set up my machine for local delivery. Read on for instructions.
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