Interesting

• When using validates on an association, remember for uniqueness validations to use the associated attribute.

  validates :foo, :uniqueness => true
  

  Should be

  validates :foo_id, :uniqueness => true
  

• You can get a quick an easy git blame with a string, rather than a line number.

  git log –pretty=oneline -S’some string’

Help

• What is the advantage of using scope over a class method?

  scope :new, order(:id)
  

  or

  def self.new
    order(:id)
  end
  

  Some Pivots seem to think that scope doesn’t add the default scope in some cases (a bug?). It appears that class methods are the preferred way moving forward in Rails.

Events

• Tuesday brown bag was a series of Youtube videos of Alan Key speaking about programming.
• Thursday UX Book Club is meeting to discuss Steve Jobs book.