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Pursuing beauty with Ruby on Rails David Heinemeier Hansson Beauty leads to happiness, happiness leads to productivity, Thus Beauty leads to productivity You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right. Richard Feynman, Scientist Migrations Plugins SwitchTower (and Gauge) Functional and unit testing Hook...

Happy programming with Ruby on Rails David Heinemeier Hansson Introducing a silver bullet Motivation Motivation is undoubtedly the single greatest influence on how well people perform. Most productivity studies have found that motivation has a stronger influence on productivity than any other factor. Steve McConnel, Rapid Development Motivation comes from happiness Optimize for happ...

Discovering a world of Resources on Rails David Heinemeier Hansson Create Read Update Delete What they told you... やつらが言ってたのは... Simplistic Unfulfilling Unworthy Shameful 単純すぎる 物足りない ふさわしくない これはひどい They were wrong やつらはまちがっていた How I learned to stop worrying and love the CRUD 私は如何にして心配するのを止めて,CRUDを愛するようになったか? find SELECT create INSERT update UPDATE destroy DELETE GET find SELECT ...