Rails Fails: Don’t sacrifice grepability for terseness of syntax

Rails 3 introduced a very pleasant syntax for using custom validation for your fields. All you had to do was to write a class called EmailValidator, and then declare:

validates :email, email…

Outsource everything — really cool infrastructure tools

When you’re a small startup trying to absolutely kill it, you don’t have time for distractions. Thats why you should outsource everything that is not your core competency. Luckily these days there’s basically an app for everything you…