Robby on Rails

Hello all!

Earlier today… our team at Planet Argon launched a new site for the Ruby on Rails community.

I love the OhMyZsh community.

Just a quick update to let you know that I’ll be moving more of my business-related topics to the Planet Argon Blog.

Welcome to what seems like my tenth installment (actually, it’s the fourth) of showing you how I setup my development environment on a fresh OSX install.

Earlier this evening, I accepted a pull-request for theme number 18, which is now included in Oh My Zsh.

Will refrain from any political commentary, but was notified by some friends that the GOP was using the source code for RubyURL for their new URL shortening site (gop.am).

While reviewing some code recently, I came across controller code that resembled the following. if customer.save CustomerMailer.deliver_welcome_message(customer) flash[:message] = "Your account has been successfully created.

Recently, Carlos, suggested that I should start sharing some basic SQL tips that help with performance and/or general usage.

For those of you who didn’t make it to Rails Underground in July to witness my mind-blowing talk, Launching Ruby on Rails projects , it appears that Skills Matter has finally posted a video of it online. :-) The sound levels are really low… but hopefully…

Earlier this week, we published Episode 3 of the Planet Argon Podcast.

As mentioned in a recent article[^1], I’ve been diving deep into Google Analytics lately while working on a few client projects.

Earlier this week our new podcast was approved and is now available in the Apple iTunes Store.

We’re currently waiting to get our new podcast approved by Apple, but have uploaded episode 1 to tumblr in the meantime.

It’s been just over four months since I posted about my experiment, Email.

Hello fellow PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails geeks, Alexander Tretyakov (twitter) recently released a plugin for Ruby on Rails, which extends migrations and provides you with the ability to create.

Tracking your KPI’s is extremely important in your online venture.

While our team is typically focused on larger client and internal projects, we do get an opportunity to assist businesses on a much smaller scale.

We’ve been doing some early (or late… if you’re a half-full kind of person) spring cleaning on some of our projects.

I wanted to publically thank everyone for helping me get Oh My Zsh out there and continue to improve it.

Yesterday, the Rails team released 2.3.4, which includes standardized way for loading seed data into your application so that you didn’t have to clutter your database migrations.

I just pushed a small change to Oh My Zsh, which gives it rudimentary support for themes.

Inspired by some recent posts from Tom on zsh, I decided that I’d do my part to help people give it a whirl.

_why, If you’re out there and come across this… know that one of my fondest memories on the internet was with you.

Now that the cat is out of the bag, I can share some recent news with you.

Hello from London!

Earlier today, a friend working on a project asked me how we approached routes on our website.

I’m working on my presentation for Rails Underground and was hoping to solicit a few tips from other people in the industry.

On one of our larger client projects (approx. 160 models and growing…) we have a specific model that we refer to quite a bit throughout our code.

Saw this tweet the other day… ::: thumbnail [Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!]

It’s time to find my passport again… I’ve been invited to speak at Rails Underground, which is being held in London, UK from July 24-25th.

Chris Wanstrath (\@defunkt) just posted the following on twitter.

On a recent trip to Las Vegas, I picked up The Four Hour Workweek for my Amazon Kindle to read on my flight.

As if delivering projects wasn’t hard enough.

If you follow me on twitter, you might have heard that we launched a little project that we’ve been cooking up at Planet Argon.

Last month I picked up a new kindle from Amazon and have been reading a handful of books.

It’s been over 83,520 minutes since I made the switch from using mongrel as my development environment web server to Phusion Passenger.

Cucumber has been getting quite a bit of attention in the community and with the new RSpec Book on nearing publication, I predict that by this time next year, it’ll become a household word like boanthropy.

While scanning through Allison’s copy of Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services, I came across this nugget.

Just a quick post to get share something I was tinkering with this evening.

We recently announced a survey that touched on topics related to the deployment and hosting of Ruby on Rails applications.

A quick follow-up to a post from a few months ago on how our team has a naming convention for git branches when we’re working on Lighthouse tickets (read previous post).

Zsh versus Bash.

I asked on twitter but only got a small handful of responses.

We recently switched our default builds of Rails Boxcar to leverage the benefits of using Passenger (mod_rails) for deployment of your Ruby on Rails applications and it’s been working out great for our customers.

We’ll be posting some more updates on the Planet Argon blog in near future, but I wanted to invite you all to check out our new site at http://planetargon.com/.

Alex, Director of Deployment Services, has been hard at work helping us get our new suite of hosting plans out for Rails Boxcar, a deployment environment that we’ve designed to help you get your Ruby on Rails applications running as painless and quickly as

Wow.

I fucked up this last week.

Thanks to everyone has taken the survey and mentioned it on twitter.