The State of Ruby ORM

Posted by on November 29, 2011 37 comments

We have a lot of different Object-Relational Mapper implementations in Ruby (and a ton and a half of Mongo mappers ;)) and it’s probably a good thing. It seems like the only ORM that really matters right now is ActiveRecord …

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Making ActiveRecord Models Thin

Posted by on August 1, 2011 20 comments

“Skinny Controller, Fat Model” is a well known best practice in Ruby community. Everybody seems to agree with it and follows it. It’s pretty clear what a skinny controller is. The question is what is a fat model and what …

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Virtus – Attributes For Your Plain Ruby Objects

Posted by on June 6, 2011 2 comments

I’m happy to announce the first release of Virtus gem. It is an extraction of DataMapper Property API with various tweaks and improvements. If you like how properties work in DataMapper and would like to use such functionality in your …

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Custom RSpec-2 Matchers

Posted by on January 14, 2011 5 comments

RSpec is one of my favorite tools. I have literally fallen in love with this fantastic BDD library, especially with its second version. While using RSpec I realized it teaches me how to write tests. Yes, exactly – learning RSpec …

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Moving from WordPress to Jekyll

Posted by on January 5, 2011 No comments

Hello World! As usual it’s been a while since I wrote anything here. Just wanted to say that I’m moving the site from WordPress to Jekyll and I like to share what I have learned so far. If you are …

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Rack Middleware Contest

Posted by on October 12, 2009 No comments

CodeRack is a coding contest dreamed up by a group of the Ruby programmers at Lunar Logic Polska who were excited about the possibilities of Rack middleware. The team wants to encourage Ruby developers to explore the possibilities and what …

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Unobtrusive JavaScript helpers in Rails 3

Posted by on September 8, 2009 1 comment

A while ago I have written a post about JavaScript helpers in Ruby on Rails and tried to explain why they are a bad idea. It’s hard to believe for me that it was almost 2 years ago! Since then …

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Client-side rendering with Prototype

Posted by on January 15, 2009 No comments

Web applications are getting more and more complex. The user interface of a modern web application can be as rich as its desktop equivalent. If we use JavaScript/HTML/CSS trio to build this UI then we definitely want to use AJAX. …

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