Here at Exec, I've been working for a bit now into having a system to allow us to log whatever happens in the system; Either a modification is made by an admins through the admin's dashboard, or a user directly...
For the past few weeks, I've been working on our new mobile website at Exec, so user's wihout our iPhone app can still easily book a house cleaning. For a better experience, I used knockout.js to make the booking flow...
As software engineers, our relation with the tools we are building is completely different than the one the users we are building for have. Because we know what's happening behind the scene, our experience using the tools and how we...
In Chicago. City on the make (http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3484-chicago-city-on-the-make), Jamie from 37signals says > I believe our Getting Real approach and REWORK perspective just would not exist without Chicago’s “real-ness” in our blood. He then asks > What do you love about your...
Today, we are expanding our house cleaning services (http://iamexec.com/race/) to 4 new cities; Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and New York. To celebrate, we are organizing a Race for the Chore, where the city with the most house cleanings booked will get...
ActiveRecord is the database "management" tool used by Rails. To use a smart term, it's what we call "ORM", or Object-Relational Mapping. What does that mean? When you start a project, you could decide to do it in Ruby, Python,...
how git works https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/two/git-from-the-inside-out # remove a file ruby $ git rm /file/path Deletes the file and removes it from the git tracking at the same time. # add all the removed files ruby $ git add -u...
Don't tell me it's impossible. There is no problem, only excuses to stop you from acting. Exactly a year ago, January 1, 2012, I woke up and as every morning, got an allongé and went to read Techcrunch; My...
If you're a Ruby developer and you havn't read Sandi Metz's book POOTR, shame on you. If you havn't heard of her... well shame on you, but trust me, now you know her, you're life is already happier! Whomever you...
Migrations Elevator Psy http://images.wikia.com/mlp/images/4/40/Elevator.gif In rails, modifications on the Database are made through migrations. Migrations are sort of like git, for databases’ schema. Every time you want to modify your database, you create a new migration file, allowing you to revert...