avinasha

Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

Influenced by the blog post: http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer

I have added some things which make sense at the state I am in.

Conventions for this fork:

• done

avinasha

In Rails 3

If you add a dir directly under app/

Do nothing. All files in this dir are eager loaded in production and lazy loaded in development by default.

If you add a dir under app/something/

(e.g. app/models/concerns/, app/models/products/)

avinasha

In Rails 3

If you add a dir directly under app/

Do nothing. All files in this dir are eager loaded in production and lazy loaded in development by default.

If you add a dir under app/something/

(e.g. app/models/concerns/, app/models/products/)

avinasha

# Run with: rake environment elasticsearch:reindex
# Begins by creating the index using tire:import command
# This will create the "official" index name, e.g. "person" each time.
# Then we rename it to, e.g. "person20121001" and alias "person" to it.

namespace :elasticsearch do
  desc "re-index elasticsearch"
  task :reindex => :environment do

    klasses = [Ticket]

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class CucumberExternalResqueWorker
  DEFAULT_STARTUP_TIMEOUT = 1.minute
  COUNTER_KEY = "cucumber:counter"

  class << self
    attr_accessor :pid, :startup_timeout

    def start
      # Call from a Cucumber support file so it is run on startup
      return unless Rails.env.cucumber?

avinasha

Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

1. Select a particular experience to pursue.
2. Pursue that experience to completion. (Achievement unlocked!)
3. Reflect on that experience. Really soak it in. Maybe a blog post would be in order?
4. Return to Step 1, this time selecting a new experience.

This gist is a fork of the gist from this blog post.