Lobot needs YOU

The Lobot project is recruiting team members. Mostly that means that when scheduling permits, you’ll work on Lobot as a project. Contact Ken (the new PM), or Davis.

How do RubyMine inspections work?

I have a module that creates methods dynamically, but I want Command-B to work for those methods.

Interestings

before_save on: :create fails silently

before_save and after_save will happily take an on: :create option, and then completely ignore it. before_validation takes an on: :create option, and actually works, which is why it feels natural to put on: :create after a before or after save.

The right answer, apparently, is to use before_create or after_create.

See also: http://grokbase.com/t/gg/rubyonrails-core/12bda67vx2/rails-core-suggestion-%60before-save-on-create%60-should-either-work-or-raise-an-exception

Resque worker shutting down on Heroku – solved

We recently added the resque-pool gem which does alias_method on the resque worker shutdown? method to look at the pid of the process being shutdown. On Heroku this always evaluates to true.
Takeaway message don’t add resque-pool gem to your gemfile for an heroku application.

hackernewsletter.com

Weekly email of curated links from hacker news. Recommended by Rajan.

Thoughtbot is writing a book

Ruby Science: https://learn.thoughtbot.com/products/13-ruby-science

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Any Good iOS Analytics Tools?

Has anyone tried/prefer any particular iOS analytics tools? We’re looking at Google Analytics, Flurry, and Mixpanel. Per-user drill downs would be nice and all features we need are supported by all three (custom events with extra data and session tracking).

Dying Heroku Resque Worker

We’ve got a resque worker on Heroku that dies instantly without any error. When we created one in a rails console it looked as though it was receiving a shutdown signal.

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Remove unused bluetooth devices from your workstation

Do us all a solid and remove those ghost devices from your bluetooth settings pane. This will make it easier for others to pair them up with a new workstation.

Interestings

GitGutter for Sublime Text

Do you use Sublime Text? Would you like to see a git line change indicator alongside your files?

https://github.com/jisaacks/GitGutter

Bonus: there’s a vim version! https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive

Twitter typeahead.js

Twitter have release a js plugin for typeaheads:

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#typeahead

Events

Wednesday: Saturday Pair Exchange

Come take part in the the special new extended Pair Exchange event on Saturday from 12:30 – 5:30.

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Tuesday: Tech Talk: Colin Shield on using Chef Server and Rails

(Davis Frank)

Tuesday: is Extreme: Host Required

(Andrew Bruce)

Host wanted for tonight’s Extreme Tuesday. Acquire within. Talk to Gavin, Andrew, Edgar, or anyone else involved.

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