http://maintainablesoftware.com/articles 2008-04-11T00:00:00Z Maintainable Software http://maintainablesoftware.com/articles/fail_early 2008-04-11T00:00:00Z Maintainable Software

It is well-known that the Ruby-based MySQL driver included with Rails is not suitable for use in production. We can write a short initializer that detects this condition and aborts the application start if the production server is misconfigured.

http://maintainablesoftware.com/articles/rails_asset_cache 2007-12-13T00:00:00Z Maintainable Software

Rails 2.0 uses asset cache to combine multiple Javascript or CSS libraries to a single Javascript and single CSS file. This improves performance by reducing the number of HTTP requests.

http://maintainablesoftware.com/articles/rails_internet_explorer_and_parallels 2007-03-26T00:00:00Z Maintainable Software

Testing your Rails applications in Internet Explorer is still a necessity these days, and Parallels Desktop for the Mac does a great job at making this as painless as possible.

http://maintainablesoftware.com/articles/dry_up_testing_with_autotest 2007-03-22T00:00:00Z Maintainable Software

Autotest will DRY up testing your Rails application by running your tests automatically whenever your files change. We'll explore installing, using, and extending the Autotest utility from ZenTest.

http://maintainablesoftware.com/articles/rails_logging_tips 2007-02-24T00:00:00Z Maintainable Software

Ruby on Rails comes prewired for logging using Logger from the Ruby Standard Library. This article demonstrates how to use the Rails logger, how to create your own logs, and offers some tips for debugging with console logging.

http://maintainablesoftware.com/articles/minifying_your_rails_javascript 2007-02-04T00:00:00Z Maintainable Software

The Javascript libraries that ship with Rails are extremely useful, but have a significant filesize footprint. Writing a simple Rake task to minify our Javascript files using JSMin provides a way cut down the size of your Javascript code before deploying your Rails application.

http://maintainablesoftware.com/articles/testing_javascript_in_rails 2007-01-08T00:00:00Z Maintainable Software

While performing unit and functional tests are expected in any good Rails application, testing Javascript often falls to the wayside. If you have been looking for an elegant solution to testing your Javascript code, the Test.Unit component of Scriptaculous is your answer.

http://maintainablesoftware.com/articles/custom_rescue_templates 2006-12-23T00:00:00Z Maintainable Software

The Ruby on Rails error screens can be easily customized to a different style or to show application-specific data. This tutorial shows how to do it. Featured on the Ruby on Rails Weblog.

http://maintainablesoftware.com/articles/creating_classes_with_prototype 2006-12-21T00:00:00Z Maintainable Software

The Prototype library helps improve the readability of Javascript code by adding a syntactic sugar for creating objects. This syntax organizes Javascript's unfamiliar prototype-based inheritance scheme in a pattern that is more common to programmers coming from Ruby, PHP, or Java.