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David StevensonDavid Stevenson
Standup for 2/9/2012: NP in P time? As usual, no.
edit Posted by David Stevenson on Thursday February 09, 2012 at 03:02PM

Ask for Help

"How can I know all the descendants of a class in the superclass at load time in ruby? I want to create a scope for each subclass."

You can't.

"What popovers should I use?"

We've used at least these two before:

"What recurring billing system should I use?"

We've had good luck with BrainTree and Recurly.

Interesting Things

  • backbone-forms is a plugin to backbone that provides model-based form views similar to rails' form_for functionality.
  • EmberJS meetup will be Feb 21, at our new pivotal office!

David StevensonDavid Stevenson
Standup 2/6/2012: Tracker UI updates
edit Posted by David Stevenson on Monday February 06, 2012 at 01:17PM

Ask for Help

"pg gem version 0.12.2 seems to be leaving connections open sometimes after our application server is dead. This results in transactions that never finish. Anyone know what's up?"

Interesting Things

  • Tracker released major UI updates on Saturday, and we're getting a lot of positive and negative feedback about it. Fear the change!
  • If you change code that's part of the rails asset pipeline, it won't really take effect until you deleted the cached files and allow the asset pipeline to regenerate them. This is because the pipeline watches for changes in the input files, but not in the source code.