Open Source Tools for Software Development Videos and Tutorials
Git is the source control system used to manage the Ruby on Rails project, as well as many other major open source projects. This talk will provide an introduction to how Git works and how to use it effectively to manage your projects. The talk will cover: * How Git …
Remi Taylor present a short demo of RackBox. RackBox adds Merb-style blackbox testing to Rack apps (including Rails). RackBox home page
No need to pass foreign keys in find conditions, just do the find through a has_many association. http://railscasts.com/episodes/3-find-through-association
This video shows how to chase duplications by spotting the most duplicated project, then drill-down to the code source for remediation. Sonar is an open source software quality management tool, dedicated to continuously analyze and measure source code quality. Sonar home page
In this talk, Yehuda Katz goes deeper, explaining some of the details of the work. He explains how Rails is becoming ORM agnostic, with code samples of work done so far. He shows some of the more significant performance enhancements, and explains why they increased the performance of the framework. …
Shorten simple finds considerably and improve readability by using the dynamic find_all_by and find_by methods. http://railscasts.com/episodes/2-dynamic-find-by-methods