The Null Object Pattern certainly isn’t a new idea, but it’s simple and can really help clean up some code, so I thought I’d share an example. Background Our login system is based off of acts_as_authenticated, but very few of our pages require a user to be logged in. We want to find out about [...]
Things have come a long way since the first project I developed on rails. Starting out I wanted to keep things simple but now I can’t get enough of the time saving complexity that many great gems and plugins bring! So here they are, in no particular order at all, a few of the recent [...]
Normally I’d suggest starting a blog about code by just jumping in – it ain’t a blog about talking, right? But I’ll disregard my own advice and give you a little background first. Doug and I started ShackPrices.com a little over a year ago and settled on Ruby on Rails a couple of months later. [...]