Jamie Flournoy's Software Development Blog
Extreme Programming Experiences: Introduction
Over the last six months I’ve had the privilege of working in a software development team that was practicing the closest thing to a full implmentation of XP that I’ve ever seen.
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From the README:
AvantiConveniences is a set of convenience code for Ruby on Rails applications.
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The new features in Ruby on Rails 2.2.2 have been well documented, and I’m looking forward to using several of them on WhatYouAte.com. If you’re reading this you probably are too.
However, if you’re upgrading an existing project and you’re sticking with official releases (as opposed to edge Rails) like I am, your code probably needs some tweaking to work with Rails 2.2.2. Mine certainly did. Although there were a lot of failed tests with ugly stacktraces, there were only a few API changes in Rails that needed to be accomodated to fix them all. Here’s a list of the changes that broke my app, and what I had to do to get it working again.
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I recently upgraded WhatYouAte.com to Rails 2.2.2. I had been using advice from the Rails Wiki’s HowToUseValidationsWithoutExtendingActiveRecord page. I was using a class based on the RailsWeenie code (that site is down now) and it stopped working. Here’s a new replacement hack that works almost identically.
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A year and a half ago I installed the excellent PostgreSQL via MacPorts, and had to create a user account manually. Annoyingly, this postgres user shows up in the GUI login screen and Fast User Switching menu under Leopard. I found a fix today.
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