Background

Many months ago we switched from using subversion to using git. A couple of our braver folks pushed this change through in the face of a few complaints from other team members. There is a learning curve. We got through this learning curve more quickly than I expected. Now looking back, I can see that the learning curve has several plateaus followed by steep inclines. In this post, I will describe where we were in our git scm process and where we are now.

Today we’re back to normal blog mode, where each article stands for itself. Muppet Labs are closed and we will be continuing our journey across the Ruby universe starting with an indepth look at Ruby’s Struct class — Ruby’s Swiss army knife for structured data.

Struct can be used without any additional require statement — it’s just there. This means it comes with zero additional overhead during initial interpreter startup — one of the many advantage of using Struct. But first let’s look at the basics.

Learnivore is a new(ish) site by French Rubyist Thibaut Barrère that aims to aggregate all of the best screencasts in any easy to navigate, searchable manner.

Say we have a website where the customers have 1 week free trials. Say that there are also administrators who want to occasionally reset the trial period of a customer.

The lots of code way

We could do this with a controller action and a link: