Rails has an decent set of validation rules for its database models. You can specify that particular variables must be present or satisfy certain constraints, either by themselves (“must be two characters long”) or in relation to each other (“password can’t be blank for administrators”). I’ve written several of my own extensions to these for [...]
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February 12, 2007
My Full-Circle Journey Back to Smalltalk
I suppose it’s time to tell my story. I was a Smalltalk zealot in the late 90’s, but I left it behind when I started my own business. I’ve now come full-circle, and I’m finding once again that Smalltalk is the best tool for most of the programming work I do.
I learned Smalltalk programming from [...]
