About

Not much to say about me. My name is Andrew Bloom and I am a Ruby on Rails developer in Chicago. I graduated from RIT with a bachelors in Computer Engineering in 2007. I am currently employed as a Software Engineer at Leapfrog Online, hired in September of 2007.

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Rails Defaults I Like to Change When working on larger projects the RAILS_ROOT/app folder structure can be a little restrictive. Lately I've taken to adding more sub-directories into RAILS_ROOT/app like, observers, mailers and presenters (check out ActivePresenter and Presenter Pattern if you've never heard of it). It's a simple trivial addition to the folder...
Tall Mocha, no toppings please I finally got around to using a mocking library today at work. I chose Mocha to start, no real reason, just the first name to pop into my head. After about 15 minutes (10 reading docs, and 5 coding) I am in love. Seriously, testing has never been this...
Prototype Scroller Object Recently an old friend, David Moffitt, asked me to tweak some Javascript I wrote for him and his company GTTS over a year ago. Looking at it again after such a long time was scary. The code was terrible. All functions, no classes, just a mess. I rewrote it...
Mack Framework The Mack Framework is a pretty nifty combination of Rails, Merb and many other Ruby frameworks. It's built off Rack and therefore should be simple to deploy. I really want to work with it, but what to do? Does anyone have any ideas? I need a project....
Thoughts on Coding From a recent IM conversation with a good friend of mine: Andrew Bloom 12:51 i hate working on shitty codebases 12:51 i wish i had time to do a major refactoring Stephan Mokey 12:52 yeah, code is never done, it's just due 12:52 we are artists ...