August 2009
4 posts
RailsRumble Picks '09
I was randomly assigned a group of Rails Rumble entries to judge this year. I’d like to call out my favourites of the ones I’ve judged. I’m looking forward to seeing the full list after I judge.
In no perticular order, my favourites are:
Tablesurfing
Bartender Cocktail Recipies
omnominator
Heart On
Judging Rails Rumble
So after doing having the great honour of doing the preliminary design for Rails Rumble, It has just been announced that I am joining some amazing people and judging Rails Rumble aswell. It’s a great privallage and I look forward to judging your apps.
Minor Suggestion: Unless.nil? - Down with double...
This is a very small tip aimed for people to clean up their code-base and remove some of the double negatives.
Often I shall see:
unless @user.nil?
The issue with this is approach is that unless is harder to read than if, then you have to mentally process the #nil?
The other approach is:
if @user
However, for a lot of people this is not explicit enough. I find that too few know about...
Deploying Thinking Sphinx with Capistrano.
I’ve had a lot of issues trying to deploy ThinkingSphinx with Capistrano. This has been for a multitude of reasons. The following is my recipe for deploying and hopefully making it public will make a few peoples lives easier.
This assumes you are using the plugin, not the gem.
In your deploy.rb, add the following at the top:
require...