RubyMine – A New Ruby IDE
Here is something interesting.
JetBrains is releasing their ruby and rails support in IDEA as a specially targetted product called RubyMine. I just took a download of the preview and tried it out. To a long term IDEA user, it looks an awful lot like, … IDEA I guess it is “just” a slimmed [...]
November 4, 2008
Tags: jetbrains, rails, ruby Posted in: Tools 
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ActiveRecord Associative Array Directly Into The Database
The other day, I came across the following code in a Rails project of mine:
value = SystemSetting[:some_key_here].to_i
Hmm, I could not recoqnize SystemSetting, so I guessed it was something a colleague of mine had introduced while I was away from the project. I guessed it to be an associative array, setup in the rails environment files, [...]
February 13, 2008
Tags: ActiveRecord, rails, ruby Posted in: Programming 3 Comments
One ActiveRecord Naming Convention To Take With Me
You can say what you want about the way ActiveRecord pluralizes table names. I for one, do not like it much! But hey, I could get used to it, so what the heck. But one naming convention I noticed that I have taken with me back into Java land, is the one about naming properties [...]
January 10, 2008
Tags: ActiveRecord, Java, rails Posted in: Programming No Comments