Weblog

February 2013

07 Building Internal Apps

04 Wrestling with Bundler

01 Salaries and Raises

January 2013

31 Asking Customers for Feedback on Product Ideas

30 Making Decisions with Team Participation

29 Pairing for Developer Interviews

27 How Incidents Affect Infrastructure Priorities

August 2011

10 ActiveModel::Validations and Command/Query Separation

June 2011

09 Handling Timeouts with Mongrel2 and ZeroMQ

06 m2node - a mongrel2 handler for node.js

December 2008

04 Action Dependent Validations and Why :on => :update is Bad

October 2008

28 Rails Application Visualization

17 Increasing Code Coverage May Be Harmful

08 Ruby DSLs: instance_eval with delegation

04 The Power of Implementing Ruby in Ruby

02 Testing Fragment Caching

September 2008

23 Reminder Tests

21 Rails: Performance Tuning Workflow

06 Smart Model, Dumb Controller

June 2008

01 RailsConf Slides from Testing Talk

May 2008

21 Optimistic Locking isn't a Silver Bullet

20 Rails 2.1 - Partial Updates May Create Invalid Records

April 2008

19 First Class vendor/gems

February 2008

22 The Practicality of the RSpec Story Runner

14 Using DRb to Preserve a SeleniumDriver

December 2007

27 Ruby Syntax Checker using Open3

13 Don't Be Clever

12 Reading Gem Specifications

11 Rubygems 0.9.5 Platform Bug

November 2007

15 Debugging Rails Integration Tests

September 2007

12 DeepTest Now Available

01 DeepTest Preview

August 2007

13 Rails: UnitRecord - Test without the Database

11 Fibonacci Code Golf

08 Modifying Rake Tasks

01 Rails: Fixin' Fixtures with Factory

July 2007

31 Misunderstanding the Law of Demeter

27 Taking DRY Too Far

24 Ruby: Preventing Object#id Warnings

20 Logic Branches Fundamental

May 2007

29 Don't Use ActiveRecord::Base.update

20 Well Named Methods

17 Ruby: View Gem Documentation

16 When Using method_missing, Update respond_to

April 2007

20 Ruby Class to_proc

10 Ruby Anti-Pattern Variety Pack

08 Ruby Pattern: Extend through Include

March 2007

22 Handling Nil, Duck Style

15 CruiseControl.rb Growl Notifier Plugin

09 ActiveRecord Association Loaded?

01 Smooth Migration

February 2007

28 Between Controller and View

10 Scope Out ActiveRecord Conditions

08 Ruby Inheritance Chain

05 Rails 1.2.2 - Protect Those Attributes!

January 2007

30 Thank You Rails

25 .irbrc and testing rails

03 Start Mocking

December 2006

27 config.plugins exclusion

November 2006

22 Finding Unused Code in Rails

19 Oracle CLOBs in Rails

02 Rails Podcast

October 2006

29 Modifying CGI::Cookie

11 Pluggable, Please

08 Not Upgrading Software

02 Embracing Constraints

01 Five Ruby Addictions

September 2006

29 Writing Code That Writes Code

25 Community Crossover

24 How Rails Processes a Request

22 Reading Code

21 Query Stats Rails Plugin

20 New Website

Hi, I'm Dan Manges, a software developer at Braintree. Read more about me.