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Update 12/15/2011: Released as a plugin on github Blazing fast way of finding references to the current partial you’re viewing using this simple script. Requires git-grep.vim. Bonus: at the bottom of the script I also define “K” to git grep the current word. Very handy for fast function reference finding. Like this post? Here are [...]
Disclaimer: This post contains evil (but highly fun!) code. Proceed at your own peril… I was recently designing an application that needed to execute some long running requests against an external host. If you’ve ever tried doing something like this in Rails, you’ll find your mongrels will block up waiting for the request to complete, [...]
Sometimes you have a data migration that creates or modifies records in some way, and you would like to test it in your unit tests right? Except that Rails typically just clones the structure of your dev database, not its data. So how do you test that a migration succeeded? Simple, just invoke it during [...]
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