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Free Apress books

Posted by Aidan, Wed May 23 11:06:00 UTC 2007

Apress sent us some review copies of some of their recent ruby/rails books along with some Apress branded notepads.

The books are

  • Beginning Ruby, Cooper
  • Rails Solutions, Williams
  • Beginning Ruby on Rails E-commerce, Hellsten, Laine
  • Practical Ruby Gems, Berube

If you are interested in reviewing any of these books see the thread on the mailing list.

P.S. Thanks to Apress for sending these out.

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Speed up Rails tests using an in-memory database

Posted by Olivier, Wed May 16 19:30:00 UTC 2007

One cheap solution to speed up your unit tests is to configure the test database to run in-memory. If your code isn’t database specific, you’ll simply have to follow Geoffrey Grosenbach’s instructions.

Other links you might want to check out on this topic:

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