We recently worked on a project that required to us to have online streaming video functionality. This streaming video would be then played by browser bases Players(Adobe Flex). We looked at various server options to stream the video.
Here is what we found.
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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…)

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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Its been a couple of months that I started developing commercial projects using Ruby on Rails. Here are some stuff I learned which might be a good practices for aspirant Ruby/Rails developers.
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I just finished watching the video “Agilists and Architects — Allies not Adversaries” that was presented by Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons during the QCon 2008 San Francisco conference and was published by InfoQ recently.

It was a very interesting presentation and highlights the problems that Architects facing while working on Agile projects. The presenters neatly addresses the problems and the proposes the solutions. (more…)

Recently, there was one cool discussion in eXtreme Programming yahoo group about “Agile People Management”.
Some one raised a question about the concept of line management exisit in Agile and who handles it. In response to that question, Alexandru Palade posted an answer with a link a video by Ricardo Semler. (more…)

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…)