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Announcing pulse-0.3.0

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I just released a new version of pulse. Pulse adds an action to your rails project that can be used for external health checking. The most common use is by a...

The state of Flex development

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I’m currently working on a project which has a Flex front-end talking to a ruby on rails back-end. Someone recently asked me what I thought of Flex, and my r...

Factory pattern with syntactic sugar

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Dan Manges has a nice write-up on why the factory pattern is better than Rails fixtures: Rails: Fixin’ Fixtures with Factory. The factory is used to create v...

Dynamically generating FlexUnit test suite

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I have been working with Flex recently, which is a framework for building Flash applications. The standard testing framework for Flex is FlexUnit. A good exa...

Flying towards a hub

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Most people who work for ThoughtWorks in the US travel for a living, so we spend a fair amount of time talking about travel. Lately, we have noticed a patter...