Snowflakes 2014-06-27

Snowflakes 2014-06-27

Rails, Javascript, Programming, etc

validates_presence_of and accepts_nested_attributes_for

I had to use this. Is accepts_nested_attributes_for evil? Especially when used with a backbone view?

Byebug

Co-worker added this to our project. Haven’t gotten around to playing with it yet.

RR Scaling with TwitPics Steve Corona

Great explanation of how they moved from PHP to JRuby/Torque box.

Hirb

We could spend hours hacking with this one.

Random

Chicago is not that windy

Interesting background. Will we stop calling the Windy City?

Boris Karloff

Holy crap, did not realize this guy was in over 200 movies. Talk about hard working!