A professor stood before Philosophy 101 with some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full? They agreed that it was. The professor then picked up [...]
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Things Adrienne & Dean Do, Think and WriteBrowsing Posts published in April, 2008
With apologies to Ben Franklin. My last beer fermented a little too warm and turned out full of esters. What I am calling The Fruity Brit is still drinkable as demonstrated last night when Adie and I had eight friends over for pizza and beer. The first keg is at least three gallons light. A [...]
I was extending acts_as_commentable and needed a good RSpec test to check the returned objects from its finder methods belonged to the correct user. For example, Comment.find_comments_by_user( :some_user ) should all belong_to :some_user. I’ll be darned if that doesn’t look like a RSpec description. Since there is no all_belong_to matcher, I wrote one. module ActiveRecordValidations [...]
Weeks in advance the word went out through Craigslist, Facebook and TexAgs, trickling through emails from friend to friends. When brewday about 20 people showed to share beer, make beer, talk beer and have a good time. Three people brought their gear and we made 21 gallons of beer. I made an ordinary bitter, Ian [...]
The water here in Bryan, TX is soft, but stinks of chlorine. I finally decided to put together a water filter for my growing brewery. I got the specs from the January 2007 issue of Brew magazine. They have yet to put that article online, so here it is. I built it for about $40, [...]
Extending acts_as_commentable
acts_as_commentable is a nice little ruby on rails plugin. It extends your ActiveRecord classes giving them comments. We are going to use comments on all kinds of things, starting with recipes, of course. However, AAC lacks a critical feature: the ability for users to approve comments before they are displayed. In this post I am [...]