Extending ActionController::Base once, in ApplicationController, is a great Ruby on Rails practice. However, if ApplicationController is your only abstract controller, it’s likely to become a maintenance challenge. To avoid this, you should extend ApplicationController as needed and move as much code as possible into its subclasses.

You can use C code to prepare methods for mruby scripts.

The cover article of the November 2014 Atlantic Monthly told the story of sexting and police involvement in Louisa County, VA.

mruby is an implementation of Ruby that’s designed to be lightweight & integrated with C. To get started, you can run a bit of Ruby code from inside C code.

Sadly, PCO is getting out of the batman.js game.

Batman.js and AngularJS both create hierarchical view scopes, but their implementations are very different.

I was just pondering whether a person ought to have children or not. It’s funny when I try to be the judge.

Batman.js is a front-end MVC framework with an unrivaled implementation of key-value observing. I will explore computed properties in batman.js by contrasting them with Ember.js’s computed properties.

In batman.js, event handlers respond to user interactions like “click” and “submit”. You can use them to modify application state in response to those interactions.

Using batman.js with Devise is pretty straightforward.