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slash7 with Amy Hoy » Blog Archive » Secrets of the Rails Console Ninjas
http://slash7.com/2006/12/21/secrets-of-the-rails-console-ninjas
Secrets of the Rails Console Ninjas. Posted on December 21, 2006, 6:23 pm, by Amy Hoy, under articles. Have you ever used the Rails console? I’d love to see a show of hands (or comments, really). If not—boy, are you in for a treat. The console lets you fiddle with parts of your Rails app—models especially—in a real-time environment, instead of waiting for page reloads and clicking on links and using object dumps or breakpoints to try and get a picture of what’s going on behind the scenes. I’d love ...
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Creating an API // RailsTips by John Nunemaker
http://www.railstips.org/blog/archives/2011/12/01/creating-an-api
One man, lazily posting some of the things he learns. December 01, 2011. Older: Stupid Simple Debugging. A few weeks back, we publicly released the Gauges API. From the ground up as an API. It was a lot of work. You really have to cross your t’s and dot your i’s when releasing an API. 1 Document as You Build. On our team who powered through it. As we documented the API. Changing from an array to a hash meant that we needed to namespace the array with a key. We then noticed that some places were name-...
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slash7 with Amy Hoy » Blog Archive » Secrets of the Rails Console Ninjas
http://slash7.com/articles/2006/12/21/secrets-of-the-rails-console-ninjas
Secrets of the Rails Console Ninjas. Posted on December 21, 2006, 6:23 pm, by Amy Hoy, under articles. Have you ever used the Rails console? I’d love to see a show of hands (or comments, really). If not—boy, are you in for a treat. The console lets you fiddle with parts of your Rails app—models especially—in a real-time environment, instead of waiting for page reloads and clicking on links and using object dumps or breakpoints to try and get a picture of what’s going on behind the scenes. I’d love ...