08: Know Your Toolset

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Things Mentioned

• Knight Foundation
• How We Migrated To Active Record 4
• Legacy Migrations In Rails
• Establishing a Connection to a Non-Default Database in Rails 3.2
• More advice on legacy data migration in Rails
• Not sure what to test in Rails? This book is a great place to start
• Ruby Metaprogramming Is Cooler Than It Sounds
• Metaprogramming Ruby 2: Program Like the Ruby Pros
• The Infinite Toolset, Craftsmanship, and Developer Sanity - aka learn your tools!
• jQuery’s Relevancy – There and Back Again
• Shoestring - A lightweight, simple DOM utility made to run on a tight budget