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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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…)

Here is a quick listing on some of the useful Rails gems and plugin that I use in our projects everyday.
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If you are looking for handy plugins, gems in rails and some advanced recipes which make your work 10 times easier ,I suggest this book Advanced Rails Recipes. This book is a collection of practical recipes for spicing up your web application without a lot of prep and cleanup. You’ll learn how the pros have solved the tough problems using the most up-to-date Rails techniques so you can deliver your stunning web app quicker and easier. Our company (Spritle Software) bought this book “Advanced Rails Recipes” and I started reading it and found it very useful. It has some cool searching gems, clientside validation plugins and much more advanced topics which will definitely come handy in webapplications
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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…)

One funny video going around in Internet (Youtube) with the title “The downfall of Agile Hitler”.
If you haven’t watched it yet, do check it out now. (more…)