Monthly Archives: January 2010

Recipe for 5 Whys with an Agile Software Team

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Andy Peterson

5 Whys is a great way to get at the root of quality problems. On my last three projects, when I felt like code quality was dropping, I ran a “5 Whys” session. I have found it adds variety, solves … Continue reading →

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Database Migrations: Fail when database is out of date

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Christian Nelson

The latest release of the Carbon Five Database Migration maven plugin supports a new goal: check. The check goal fails the build if the database isn’t up to date. That is, if there are pending migrations the plugin produces a … Continue reading →

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Erector views – undefined method `default_url_options’

Posted on January 20, 2010 by admin

I’m posting this because it took me too long to figure this out. Hope it saves someone else some trouble. If you want to use named route helpers to generate urls in your erector widgets you need to include ActionController::UrlWriter … Continue reading →

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Automatically deploying to Engine Yard Cloud

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Jonah Williams

I’m working on a application which is deployed to Engine Yard’s Cloud infrastructure and I wanted to automatically redeploy the application whenever our tests passed on our continuous integration server. Engine Yard will eventually allow us to push a branch … Continue reading →

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