If you are one of the victim who got the below error on your Windows machine…

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing rcov:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

F:/--ruby install path--/Ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
creating Makefile

nmake
'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Gem files will remain installed in F:/--ruby install path--/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/ge
ms/rcov-0.9.8 for inspection.
Results logged to F:/--ruby install path--/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rcov-0.9.8/ext
/rcovrt/gem_make.out

the I have a suggestion.
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Book Name: Flex on Rails: Building Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex 3 and Rails 2 (Developer’s Library)
Authors: By Tony Hillerson, Daniel Wanja
Link: Amazon link
Table of contents: See Sample Content
Published on: 2009

If you know Rails and Flex, and if you are desperately looking for a book that can guide you to Integrate Flex and Rails, then this is the book to buy. (more…)

I came across an interesting discussion happening in Linked In RoR group with the topic RoR compared with other development platforms..
Lets see how this topic got started, the community opinion and finally my opinion. (more…)

We have recently launched the pre-beta version of Dunnitt (http://www.dunnitt.com). Like how Twitter is for micro-blogging, Dunnitt is for micro-collaboration. You can check the screenshots of Dunnitt at http://www.dunnitt.com/one_minute_manual

Thought I would share here some of the simple things we do while we are working on our Sprint release.
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Recently I tried to write the integration tests for a Rails app which uses Authlogic for authentication.
We decided to use RSpec for unit and functional testing, and Webrat + RSpec combo for integration testing. That means Webrat with Rspec without Cucumber. The fun started when we want to integrate webrat + rspec with authlogic.
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Recently we saw an advertisement for a Rails Developer contract job in one famous Rails website. The potential client posted a small puzzle in Ruby and asked the potential candidates to solve and apply for it.
We thought we would reply to them in their style itself.
The below code was the email attachment we sent to them. Oops!.. Are we sharing lots of internal secrets.
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Before I jump in to saying how to write unit testing in Ruby on Rails, let me share what i felt about testing. When I was introduced about Unit Testing, I felt its simply a waste of time (IMHO I think many coders before getting addicted to testing might feel the same way), what is so great about testing if I can test my own code manually that’s what coders (people who are not aware of unit testing importance) might think so. (more…)

Clarke Ching has written a book “Rocks Into Gold Pocket Book“. This book is about a programmer who saves his job, his colleagues’ jobs, and perhaps even his company by using just one agile principle. His project was about to be cancelled due to the recession/credit- crunch and he figured out how agile could help. (more…)