I’ve created a free 9 day course on Refactoring Ruby on Rails Controllers. It discusses and reviews 9 refactorings that I recently did to ChiliProject’s ProjectsController including: Auditing dead code (or zombie code that looks dead but could come back to life and bite you later) The wrong way to use filters Consolidating your guards …
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Refactoring Redmine – Business Update
It’s been awhile since I posted an update on my Refactoring Redmine ebook, so I wanted to post an update you on how it’s been doing. These numbers are the grand totals since Refactoring Redmine as first launched in September 2010. 11,807 visits 9,363 unique visits Visitor to sale conversion rate of 1.0904% 128 copies …
Attending OSBridge 2011
I’ll be attending OSBridge this week. Feel free to chat with me if you want, I won’t bite (I’m the guy with a broken pinky). Tentatively planning to attend these sessions: Tuesday: Sales-fu Diary of an Open Source Sysadmin Entrepreur or How 5 People with 4 Day Jobs in 3 Time Zones Enjoyed 2 Years …
ChiliProject 2.0.0 RC3 Released
The ChiliProject community found several bugs with the ChiliProject 2.0.0RC2 release. The critical ones have been fixed and I just finished packaging up ChiliProject 2.0.0RC3 for release. It would really help me out if you could take some time to test it out for us. Just make sure you don’t use it on a production system …
Run rake tasks in emacs with rinari
I use emacs and rinari when I’m working on ChiliProject. I learned from reading Continuous Testing is that I should be able to run all of my tests with a single key command in an IDE. Unfortunately, ChiliProject’s full test suite takes about 20 minutes to run on my desktop (a whole different problem I’ll be …