links for 2008-03-06

• Tarantula vs. your Rails app - Relevance, Inc.
  “It crawls your rails app, fuzzing inputs and analyzing what comes back.”
  (tags: rubyonrails spiders testing debugging)
• try() — ones zeros majors and minors
  def try(method)
  send method if respond_to? method
  end
  (tags: ruby)
• Jay Fields Thoughts: Ruby: Replace method_missing with dynamic method definitions
  “Debugging classes that use method_missing can often be painful. At best you often get a NoMethodError on an object that you didn’t expect, and at worst you get stack level too deep (SystemStackError).”
  (tags: ruby rubyonrails method_missing)
• almost effortless » Sharing Code Between ActiveRecord Models
  (tags: rubyonrails activerecord)
• (A Detailed Explanation of) Ruby’s Symbol#to_proc — Thoughtfolder
  One of the nicer features of Ruby
  (tags: ruby)
• bigfleet’s blanket at master — GitHub
  “Blanket is a flexible backup framework designed to get the drudgery out of the way and to make automated backups easy.”
  (tags: ruby gems databases backups)

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