February 2010
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Easier debugging when refactoring Rails...
When refactoring a big controller with lots of before filters, it’s common (for me anyway) to get into a situation where tests start failing due to before filters redirecting. Today I made it a lot easier to debug these failing tests by adding this to my ApplicationController: def redirect_to_with_logging(*args) logger.debug "Redirect: #{args.inspect} from #{caller[0]}" ...
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To be great, you must understand the competition
I was listening to Morning Edition on the way to work a couple days ago, and something caught my ear. One of the reporters was talking about the recent problems that Toyota has been having. The president of Toyota, Akio Toyota, was seemingly absent from the response until he was cornered at the WEF. What he said wasn’t that big of a deal. But something the reporter harped on struck a...
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