Robert Mosolgo

Ruby on Rails models tend to grow and grow.

While adding a big feature to PCO Check-Ins, I was struck with this way of describing my approach to adding complexity to the system.

To resolve a bug, a developer must know the behavior and the purpose of the program at hand.

Extending ActionController::Base once, in ApplicationController, is a great Ruby on Rails practice.

You can use C code to prepare methods for mruby scripts.

The cover article of the November 2014 Atlantic Monthly told the story of sexting and police involvement in Louisa County, VA.

mruby is an implementation of Ruby that’s designed to be lightweight & integrated with C.

Sadly, PCO is getting out of the batman.js game.

Batman.js and AngularJS both create hierarchical view scopes, but their implementations are very different.

I was just pondering whether a person ought to have children or not.

Batman.js is a front-end MVC framework with an unrivaled implementation of key-value observing.

In batman.js, event handlers respond to user interactions like “click” and “submit”.

Using batman.js with Devise is pretty straightforward.

Model::transaction provides a deep-copied, “shadow-realm” version of a record which is great for rendering into edit forms.

Batman.js is a CoffeeScript front-end MVC framework.

In this whirlwind tutorial, we’ll build a blog with batman.js and Firebase.

Implementing image preview is breeze thanks to batman.js observers and JavaScript APIs.

Batman.js doesn’t support hasManyThrough out of the box, but it can be implemented fairly easily with Set::mappedTo.

Batman.Object accessors are the bread and butter of batman.js.

batman.js views are one of the best ways to integrate other JS libraries with batman.js data structures like Batman.Object and Batman.Set.

Batman.Set is the array-like enumerable of batman.js.

By default, Batman.Request sends data as HTTP form data.

You can use jasmine to test batman.js controllers by looking them up from the controller directory, then executing actions with executeAction.

In batman.js, properties automatically track their sources.

The “Batman.js MVC Cookbook” is a collection of annotated code snippets for getting things done with batman.js.

You can use batman.js with any backend!

Batman.js’s prevent and allowAndFire make it easy...

Batman.js objects (Batman.Object instances) have properties defined with @accessor.

If the batman-rails gem isn’t an option, gulp.js is a good candidate for compiling batman.js apps for production.

A Batman.Model has a lifecycle object that fires events on the record when it’s being dirtied, cleaned, loaded, saved or destroyed.

Batman.js provides a powerful model associations inspired by Ruby on Rails.

Just a few things I’ve picked up about Batman.RestStorage and Batman.RailsStorage.

Living a day at a time sounds a bit like lazy enumeration.

When working on HTML for Batman.Views, it can be annoying to refresh and navigate back to wherever you were.

Need to add a header to an ActiveResource request?

Debugging can be tedious, especially when cntl-R is your only resort for trying new options.

Here’s how I set up Karma & Jasmine to test a Batman.js app on Ruby on Rails.

You can use Slim (or Haml) to serve your Batman.js templates in the Rails Asset Pipeline. 1.

Creating a dynamic, context-based navigation menu is a breeze with batman.js and batman-rails thanks to Batman’s data-route view binding and the

My involvement with a Google App Engine-based project is winding down, so I’ll share what I’ve learned.

Batman.js’s REST Storage Adapter provides a clean interface for operating on records with vanilla REST urls – but what about when you need a lil’ something more?

I had an existing app, but I wanted to take the front end to the next level.

Countrysaurus is an online tool for merging country codes into a CSV spreadsheet with country names in it.

I learned this the hard way, so I thought I’d share.

Valerie and I are on the way from Charlottesville, VA, to Carlsbad, CA.

Valerie and I are on the way from Charlottesville, VA, to Carlsbad, CA.

Valerie and I are on the way from Charlottesville, VA, to Carlsbad, CA.

It took me quite a while to realize that my GAE backend wasn’t working because I had to use appcfg, not the

Google App Engine’s dev_appserver prevents filesystem writes because GAE has no filesystem – but sometimes you want to write anyways!

On Google App Engine, I had to display the user-submitted image, if there was one, else display a default image.