Author Archives: Joey Beninghove

It’s not goodbye…

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Joey Beninghove

Hey there folks, It’s a bittersweet moment for me, but the time has come for me to relaunch my personal blog/brand back under my own name.  I truly appreciate everything Jason, Joe and everyone else in this community has done … Continue reading →

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Vlad, RVM and Bundler sittin’ in a tree

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Joey Beninghove

(Thanks to Chad for nudging me to write this post Up until now, my only experience with deploying Rails or any other Ruby-based web application has been to use the “standard” Capistrano.  For the main Rails 3 application I’ve been … Continue reading →

Posted in bundler, deployment, ruby, rvm, vlad the deployer | 9 Comments

RVM, Bash Scripting and Rails 3 Edge

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Joey Beninghove

I’ve only begun to tap into the power of bash scripting, but I had a need to automate setting up a Rails 3 app on edge, using RVM like I want.  So I decided to whip up a very simple … Continue reading →

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OSX Terminal Automation

Posted on July 17, 2010 by Joey Beninghove

My OSX Terminal Environment (as of today) Some of this might be old hat for a lot of you, but maybe this will help at least a few people.  I’m a pretty big automation addict.  During my Ruby on Rails … Continue reading →

Posted in automation, osx, rails, ruby, terminal | 1 Comment

Getting plugged into Ruby

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Joey Beninghove

Brad Mead asked a question on my previous post about my favorite community hang outs, lists, sites, etc. Instead of posting a long comment reply, I decided to turn it into a post of its own. If you don’t like … Continue reading →

Posted in community, podcasts, ruby, screencasts | 5 Comments

From ALT.NET to NOT.NET

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Joey Beninghove

For a long time now I’ve been known as “joeyDotNet”. Of course I’ll never make the mistake tying my name to a particular technology like that again. Especially given some of the recent changes I’ve made in my career. For … Continue reading →

Posted in alt.net, community, microprenuer, rails, ruby | 25 Comments

Quick Fix (and a question): Mongoid Edge

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Joey Beninghove

I just went throught the process of upgrading my current app to the latest edge for Rails 3, Mongoid and all of my other gems. And when I went to run my specs, I received this error: Database command ‘drop’ … Continue reading →

Posted in mongodb, mongoid, rspec, ruby | 3 Comments

Cucumber, A Brief Overview

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Joey Beninghove

Cucumber I’ve found Cucumber to be a pretty nice way of doing high level acceptance/integration testing. It’s also the first time I’ve ever thought that ATDD (acceptance test driven development) is actually achievable. The idea is that you write your … Continue reading →

Posted in bdd, cucumber, ruby, testing | 3 Comments

The Ruby/Rails Life – My Rails 3 Stack – Part 2

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Joey Beninghove

Rails Deployment & Testing There are some really nice tools available for deployment and testing rails. Below is a brief description of some of the ones I’ve been using with success. Capistrano I remember in the early days of my … Continue reading →

Posted in bdd, capistrano, cucumber, deployment, factory_girl, rails, rspec, rstakeout, ruby, steak, testing | 3 Comments

The Ruby/Rails Life – My Rails 3 Stack – Part 1

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Joey Beninghove

As some of you might know, About a month ago I left my almost 10 year career as a Microsoft developer to become an independent Ruby/Rails developer (a term I’m deeming “pulling a Gunderloy”). It was long overdue for me … Continue reading →

Posted in blueprint, cancan, compass, devise, haml, jquery, mongodb, mongoid, rails, ruby, rvm, sass | 11 Comments