Re: [rails-oceania] Will a Computer Science Degree make me a better programmer?

2015-09-02 Thread Richard McGain
I found that my degree did not really help me in my first few years as developer, since my course did not teach me to be a professional developer. As I grew to work on more complex problems, my degree has come to be useful though. All that work on compilers, theoretical computing models and even ar

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Recommendation for a distributed CI service

2013-09-26 Thread Richard McGain
We use CircleCI with a very large and complex suite. It runs fairly well, although they are having problems with random kernel panics causing test failures. They are working on it though so I would still choose Circle. We have a separate deployment tool though, so circle just announces successes a

[rails-oceania] Feedback from newbie night

2013-08-29 Thread Richard McGain
Hey, Despite moving to Canada, I am still on the roro list so I noticed that you guys did a newbie night. How did it go? Were there many newbies there and did they find it useful? We are thinking about doing something similar here in Montreal (possibly combining it with an install fest). Having b

Re: [rails-oceania] Taking a long flight, what are some good podcasts?

2013-07-21 Thread Richard McGain
Ruby Rogues is a popular one http://rubyrogues.com/ On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 7:53 PM, David Carlin wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm taking a long long flight, 20-something hours each way, and was hoping > you could recommend some good podcasts to make the hours go faster. > Ruby/Rails related, or Soft

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Reek and/or other code smell detectors

2013-07-09 Thread Richard McGain
An entertaining talk on the topic of metrics and smells (with lots of tools mentioned) by Kerri Miller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfNeXy5zUAQ Richard. On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Daniel wrote: > +1 for Cane. > > > On Friday, July 5, 2013 10:47:21 PM UTC+10, Fred Wu wrote: >> >> We hook

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: sharing business logic between Rails and JavaScript

2013-06-10 Thread Richard McGain
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Re: [rails-oceania] Re: sharing business logic between Rails and JavaScript

2013-06-10 Thread Richard McGain
You could also build a DSL for it, and parse it in ruby and javascript. It might be easier in the long run than using an attempt at parsing the entire language. Richard On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Dane Schneider wrote: > Perhaps you could run a node.js process and call out to that from rai

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Tools for self education

2013-03-20 Thread Richard McGain
Good discussion! I still use google reader daily(hourly?) so I am searching for an RSS based replacement. I have tried other solutions such as flipboard but I can't zero in enough on my particular interests. Gabe, your trending github repos idea is a good one. I wonder if I can get that in rss fo

Re: [rails-oceania] More vulnerabilities today: rails & json need updates

2013-02-11 Thread Richard McGain
Not according to @tenderlove "To be clear, updating Rails doesn't necessarily mean the JSON gem will be updated. Please ensure that you are running JSON version 1.7.7, 1.6.8, or 1.5.5. You can do this by adding the dependency to your Gemfile." Richard On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Tim Uc

Re: [rails-oceania] What security lists should I be following?

2013-02-01 Thread Richard McGain
I have http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/feeds/news.rss in my reader, It has security issues along with the news, so I haven't looked for anything more specific. Between it and the rails group I feel l have it covered (although I expect the next email will disabuse me of that). Richard On Fri, Feb 1,

Re: [rails-oceania] Open Wireless Movement

2013-01-02 Thread Richard McGain
This looks like something my parents were looking in to almost 10 years ago. Living in a semi-rural area, there were no other users close enough for us to connect to, but even back then, the density in Melbourne looked pretty good (my memory is pretty sketchy but I think there were over 200 users b

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

2012-10-24 Thread Richard McGain
I'm going to pipe up here with a counter argument. Buy an ultrabook. Just as light and portable as a mac, just as easy to develop on. Battery life is great and even with 8gb, it's going to be cheaper than a mac. Richard On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Ben Hoskings wrote: > It depends on wha

Re: [rails-oceania] controllers rendering messy json

2012-10-20 Thread Richard McGain
by any other name implements the Presenter pattern. > > On 20 October 2012 22:52, Mike Williams wrote: > >> On 20/10/2012, at 2:38 PM, Richard McGain wrote: >> >> I have just inherited a codebase and I am attempting to clean it up a >> bit. I just can't figu

[rails-oceania] controllers rendering messy json

2012-10-19 Thread Richard McGain
Hi all, I have just inherited a codebase and I am attempting to clean it up a bit. I just can't figure out what to do with some controllers serving up json. This pattern is repeated in a bunch (10+) of controllers def index users = User.find(:all) @json_response_wrapper[:response][:users] =

Re: [rails-oceania] VIM Settings for ruby/rails dev

2012-08-04 Thread Richard McGain
I use Command-t and supertab and not much else. When I started using vim I had so many plugins but I found I used them so rarely, or they saved me so little time that it was just easier to remove them. Richard On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Tate Johnson wrote: > My former co-workers would in

Re: [rails-oceania] Junior Developer in Formation

2012-05-21 Thread Richard McGain
Hi, I am in the middle of making the opposite move (to Montreal, Canada) and am in a similar situation (I haven't worked professionally in Ruby). What I plan to do (and what I would encourage you to do) is go to meetups, talks, conferences etc. My favourites in Melbourne have been Roro meetups and

Re: [rails-oceania] Build Ruby/Rails app using Bamboo

2012-02-03 Thread Richard McGain
eren't for that fact, I would rather go for Jenkins. Richard McGain On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Steven Ringo wrote: > Out of curiosity, what is it about Bamboo that would make it a compelling > choice > over any of the others (like Jenkins)? > > Steve > > > Craig

Re: [rails-oceania] What CI servers are you using?

2012-01-29 Thread Richard McGain
s focus. Still, http://inedo.com/ Richard McGain On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Adam Boas wrote: > Currently Simple Cov and Formatted RSpec output. I was also producing > Metric Fu output for Flog, Reek, Flay, Rails Best Practices and Hotspots > but abandoned them due to Rcov dependen

Re: [rails-oceania] [Melbourne] Xmas drinks tomorrow (Thu) at 6PM

2011-12-21 Thread Richard McGain
The Irish Times is not one of those fancy highbrow pubs either. I will be in shorts and a tshirt! Richard McGain On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Pat Allan wrote: > Mike's answer may have come across as glib, but he's spot on - wear what > you like. It's a pub, there&#x

Re: [rails-oceania] Speeding up Rails specs

2011-08-25 Thread Richard McGain
which db you are using so I won't point out any specifics(I just googled for them anyway). Richard McGain On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Dmytrii Nagirniak wrote: > I would have thought this situation would be fairly common in a rails >> application, how are people handling