An abstract Factory provides a common interface for creating families of related objects together. The client object does not bother to build objects directly, but it calls th...

Hello everyone.With this post I would like to start a serie of articles concerning the description of the most common design patterns and how these can be applied with the Ruby ...

Maintain a skinny controller is one of the most important things to increase the readability and testability of the code. Let’s see some practices to move from the logic control...

I’ve decided to dedicate a series of posts to Rails Best Practices because I think it is important to share in order to continuously improve the way you write programs.Write t...

It happens sometimes that you have to implement creation or editing of a model splitted on more than one form. A classic case is a registration form divided into two steps or ...

Often you need to create a search form to filter the rows in a table that corresponds to a specific model. "SearchLogic":http://github.com/binarylogic/searchlogic can be a vali...

As web developer I always thought at Firefox as my preferred browser mainly for its many extensions. There are indeed thousands of addons to customize your browser making him do...

Spring is arrived so we decided to make a full restyling of the DevInterface Blog. From now new design is online and with it we also have made some upgrades. We think that the...

Rails is now closer to its official third release and all plugins and gems authors are working to ensure compatibility of their products with the new version of the framework.Am...

IceFaces provides numerous components to facilitate the development of web applications. Among these, one of the most 'useful' is definitely ice:dataTable. This component, toge...