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I am a photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, guitarist, climber, and telemark skier

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Posts Tagged rails

Talk Notes: Rails Sustainable Productivity by Xavier Shay

http://confreaks.com/videos/815-larubyconf2012-rails-sustainable-productivity Here are my notes on Xavier Shay’s awesome video on sustainable productivity in Rails. I agree wholeheartedly with all of his points, and although they’re not particularly new, it’s nice to hear from someone with real world perspective on maintaining a large Rails project. Rails does not make data integrity a priority, so be [...]


Convert rspec pending to xit with vim

RSpec has two ways of disabling tests: pending and xit. Except one of them is truly evil. Pending actually still runs the before block even when it’s disabled. This is bad when you have a test with a very expensive before block. Changing the pending to xit is a great strategy, but tedious. Vimscript to [...]


Dotfiles for insane productivity in bash, git, and vim

Following the principles of insane productivity that I blogged about earlier, I am releasing my dotfile repository, containing customizations for bash, git, and vim. The guiding principles are two letter mnemonics for everything bash and git related, and single letter capital letter actions for all common Vim commands. The selection of vim plugins is best [...]


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