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john on Apr 23rd, 2013 in
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Comments have been turned off on my blogs for months, and I’ve been happy with the result. Gone were both the SPAM comments and the less than useful comments. There is a full discussion of my reasoning...
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john on Oct 23rd, 2012 in
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I prefer to have my RSpec tests ordered randomly to ensure we have condition independent code. Back in July, RSpec 2.11 was released, which added support for the –order argument on the commandline. Now...
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john on Aug 27th, 2012 in
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For the past several months, I’ve been using a nice feature that I’ve recently found out that many others don’t know about, so thought I’d draft it up.1
You have an issue in Github, so...
Posted by
john on Jul 10th, 2012 in
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Recently, I’ve been fighting with Ruby 1.9 and encoding in a Rails 3.1 app that we’re running on Heroku. The strange thing is that encoding was working fine on any local system we would try, but...
Posted by
john on May 22nd, 2012 in
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So, I have a complicated Rails project. I have a local server, a remote dev server, a remote staging server, and a production server. Recently, I had a situation where the dev server was shunting traffic to...
Posted by
john on Apr 9th, 2012 in
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Today was supposed to be a normal day. A simple pull-request merge, an automated Jenkins build, and then a database migration.
What followed instead was a search for the cause of a build failure– or, rather,...