When David Chelimsky was visiting São Paulo in last April, we invited him to go out for some coffee, beers and brazilian appetizers. We had a great time and we talked about different topics like OO, programming languages, authoring books and, as expected, about testing. One of the topics in our testing discussion was the … »

In this blog post we talk about a new feature upcoming on Devise 2.1 that aims to provide developers faster feedback in case a model is missing a field required by Devise behaviors.

Today I want to show you a project I’ve started over a year ago, during Mendicant University core skills course. For those who don’t know, Mendicant University is a group of skilled software developers that offer courses, mentoring, and help out the community, started by Gregory Brown, and that nowadays counts with some other awesome … »

Rails 4 will ship with ActiveModel::Model, a module that includes the minimum required by Action Pack to work in forms, urls and so forth. Learn more about this module, how to use and extend it in this blog post.

The Carnival is over in Brazil but we are still partying at Plataformatec by bringing you, not a small bump, but a shiny new version: Simple Form 2.0. Simple Form 2.0 features a new wrapper API which makes it very flexible and easy to integrate with CSS frameworks like Twitter Bootstrap.

Last week I spoke at Silicon Valley Ruby Group about PlataformaTec’s open source tools, mainly Devise, Simple Form and Responders. When talking about Devise, I’ve mentioned that, before creating Devise, we were alternating between using Authlogic or Clearance in our projects. However, we soon realized that we needed a solution that was as customizable as … »