A short introduction to new great tool which is CoffeeScript.

This is how my irbrc file looks like:

if ENV.include?('RAILS_ENV') && !Object.const_defined?('RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER')
 require 'logger'
 RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER = Logger.new(STDOUT)
end
require 'rubygems'
require 'wirble'
require 'interactive_editor'
ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT) if Object.const_defined?('ActiveRecord')
Wirble.init
Wirble.colorize

Velocity 2010: Nicole Sullivan, “The Top 5 Mistakes of Massive CSS” (via OreillyMedia)

>> SomeModel.connection.select_values SomeModel.send(:construct_finder_sql, :select =>:id, :limit => 20)

=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20]

Cute little plugin to emulate ruby’s method missing in JavaScript by Pat Nakajima

So you finally finished your work? Everything is checked and the code seems to be working? Brand your application with the “Works on my machine” logo and make sure your customers and co-workers see it.

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