"Ruby can't scale."
Tell that to LivingSocial, Groupon, Gowalla, Sony, and the rest of our community pushing millions of requests per day. Scaling an application isn't about piling up hardware and dropping in the newest database fad, it's the c...
We're facing a tidal wave of rescue projects. So many developers dive into writing Rails applications without building a real foundation in Ruby. Instead we focus on the new whiz-bang features of Rails or the hot gem of the week—missing the awes...
Jeff Casimir will lead a follow-up panel focusing on testing topics with Justin Searls, Cory Flanigan and Jim Holmes.
The Ruby community is obsessed with testing, supposedly. In my experience about four out of five applications have either zero or completely ineffective test coverage.
Have the courage to change it. Whether your own projects or recovering someo...
