Firsthand Web Development, Ruby on Rails, Montréal

Recently I needed to install the Aspell library on Heroku for a side project. By default a Heroku Dyno doesn't include any non-essenti...

A couple of months ago I gave a presentation on Trello for a lunch and learn at Dynamo . Trello is a collaborative project planning tool th...

My last project at Dynamo involved the porting of a Rails application integrated with Recurly to Spree for Quarterly Co. , an LA-based comp...

You will receive this error if you have created your controller class manually (i.e. without the Rails generators) and have not inherited fr...

Installing mysql2 Ruby gem on 10.8.4 with a home-brew install may raise the following error: mysql.h is missing. please check your installa...

Note: This was originally posted to the Dynamo Blog . Last month we leveled-up with Crush Your Achilles’ Heel . This month, it’s about hel...

This is one of my favourite quotes on requirements: Most of us were taught to write down all our requirements at the very beginning of the p...