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Archive for January, 2008
Edge Rails saw a barrage of refinements and enhancements this week and there’s even talk about Rails 2.1 being just a little around the corner. There’s also been a flurry of contributions to making Rails more thread-safe and performance optimizations (all still work in progress at the moment) – it’s really nice to see how [...]
Retrying code blocks in Ruby (on exceptions, whatever)
In: Ruby
14 Jan 2008I am not certain whether the ability to retry a code block when encountering exceptions was a feature available in Ruby, but I certainly couldn’t find anything on that topic (what I did find were mostly about the retry keyword for iterator loops). Before you ask why I need this, the motivation for this was [...]
My very own X of the Year 2007
9 Jan 2008It’s about 9 days too late, but I figure it’d be fun to just throw these out and see if anyone else enjoyed the same things I did in 2007. PC Game of the Year This has definitely got to go to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. The single-player campaign was short but visually [...]
Yup, it’s time for your weekly dose of the changes on edge Rails, more or less covered in the latest Rails Envy podcast. Using edge Rails is neither arcane nor terrifying, and hopefully weekly reports like these will allow you to take control of your own release schedule with your Rails apps. This week’s report [...]
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