Monthly Archives: February 2014

Rubyfuza 2014 Recap

Rubyfuza is Africa’s premier Ruby-language conference held each year in South Africa at the beginning of February. This year’s conference took place from 5 – 8 February at the Strand Hotel in beautiful Cape Town. Approximately 150 people, (many of

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Software Engineering Ethics: Series Introduction

Ethics is defined as a code of conduct that represents an individual or group’s ideal for appropriate and honorable behavior. To act ethically, you must understand the difference between right and wrong and be willing to accept responsibility and accountability

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Skinny Models and Skinny Controllers with the state_machine gem

Recently we have been working on a project to create a payment system using Stripe.  When you are processing payments you often have a process that goes through a number of steps.  For example,  if you are processing a payment

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