links for 2010-01-30

2010-01-30 by jcf. Average Reading Time: less than a minute.

Why Arel? « Magic Scaling Sprinkles

The reasoning behind the new Rails 3 API for generating SQL

(tags: ruby rails3 db sql rubyonrails design database arel activerecord)
The new Actionmailer API in Rails 3

Introduction to the new API

(tags: rails3 ruby rails rubyonrails actionmailer)
gist: 289467 – GitHub

Evolution of a python programmer – could easily be substituted with Ruby. Wonderful showing, that programming languages matter, and by using one (and it's idioms) you gain power.

(tags: programming software code fun python geek humour)