Return Of The ActiveSupport method of the week (Mark Morrison style)

ActiveSupport method of the week File#atomic_write (thanks to Leo)

atomic_write(file_name, temp_dir = Dir.tmpdir)

Write to a file atomically. Useful for situations where you don’t want other processes or threads to see half-written files.

File.atomic_write("important.file") do |file|
  file.write("hello")
end

If your temp directory is not on the same filesystem as the file you’re trying to write, you can provide a different temporary directory.

File.atomic_write("/data/something.important", "/data/tmp") do |file|
  file.write("hello")
end

A Few New Things Coming To JavaScript

Addy Osmani on some of the additions to JavaScript in ES6. Object.observe() *drool* http://addyosmani.com/blog/a-few-new-things-coming-to-javascript

Murray found something interesting about Spotify's process.

Scaling Agile at Spotify

Long piece (it's a PDF? why?) about how Spotify have retained small teams and agile culture despite having a large number of employees split across several offices. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1018963/Articles/SpotifyScaling.pdf

JSFeat: JavaScript Computer Vision Library

JavaScript image transformation and object detection. Check out the face detection demo which uses WebRTC. http://inspirit.github.com/jsfeat/

Lee found some front end goodness (and a trove of Rails 4 bits)

CSS Comb

Not sure if I've submitted this one before but its quite a nice tool for anyone not so great at CSS to help tidy up after themselves and also has a sublime plugin http://csscomb.com

Rails 4 links compilation

A whole load of Rails 4 links and articles all in one place http://blog.wyeworks.com/2012/11/13/rails-4-compilation-links/

An interesting talk by Ilya Grigorik on some of the things we may or may not already know about using Chrome in development http://www.igvita.com/2012/11/14/wait-chrome-devtools-could-do-that/

Matt P was looking into those pesky cukes

Scenarios are not Acceptance Criteria

A blog post by @chrismdp on not conflating cucumber scenarios with acceptance criteria. http://chrismdp.com/2012/11/scenarios-are-not-acceptance-criteria

Leo found

Hide the ORM like you’re ashamed of it

http://weblog.therealadam.com/2011/10/09/your-frienemy-the-orm/