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Testing, Web 2.0 Entrepreneurship, and Karma

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As I mentioned previously, Marcel Molina and I are doing a full day testing workshop for charity at RailsConf Europe next month.

Dr. Nic Williams hopes to attend but rather than donate the required minimum $75…

Dr Nic » One App, One User Account and Multiple OpenIDs

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Summary: Its the future, and its not Facebook. Learn it.
I’ve just implemented OpenID sign-ons for a client site, as a compliment for the standard signup/login process, and I choose the following association:
1 x…

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map_by_method now works with ActiveRecord associations

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I was always annoyed that map_by_method was broken for ActiveRecord has_many associations. 6 mths later I finally fixed it.
That’s the magic of Open Source Software. [/end sarcasm]
So now, the following example works…

Dr Nic :: Sample Rails app: multi-OpenIDs per user

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Last time, on “Dr Nic loves OpenID”…

Dr Nic had watched a video by Simon Willison glorifying the delights of OpenID to some Googlers.
Dr Nic decided that each User might like to lin…

Magic Wiggly Lines => GuessMethod, by Chris Shea

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If you ever make time to code just for pleasure, then method_missing and const_missing are just begging for abuse.
Chris Shea has come up with GuessMethod - a very cool hack that now deprecates my concept of Magic…

One year on the InterTubes

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Dumping thoughts onto the InterTubes, aka blogging, is fun. And I’ve been doing it 1 year now.
Its also challenging.
Its like inviting people over for dinner - you have to clean up your house so they get a…