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Despite leaving it for a while, I’m going to continue my previous article, “A taxonomy of Rails plugins”, relatively soon. I’ve been inspired by the excellent plugins by errfree and come up with a few ideas of my own during the heavy workload of 2007. In particular, I’d like to clarify testing Rails plugins. But more of that in the near future.

For now, have a look at 10 essential ruby gems. It’s hosted on my company’s new blog, where you’ll eventually find more articles by me with a greater emph…

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Start using Test Driven Development today is a post I wrote over on my company’s blog. It covers how TDD has improved my work since I started Helicoid Limited, and how you can start using TDD right now.

1. Learn how to write basic tests in your chosen language – don’t worry about fully learning the test framework, start by copying examples
2. When adding a new feature, start by creating tests first. Write code to satisfy these tests
3. Refactor old code to work well with a…

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