032 RR Ruby Antipatterns

It's great that you guys love the neti pot, just make sure you're using it properly. Recently use of a neti pot with improperly sterilized water resulted in serious infection. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/fatal-infections-linked-neti-pots/story?id=15170230#.Tuur79XhfFE

Unless else is perfectly fine really. To me unless is most useful if it is easier to think of the negative form of a condition in the beginning. If is clearly easiest to use when the positive form is easier to think of at the beginning of the condition. Really the (if not) setup while traditional can get really weird when you read it literally. Though maybe unless else would sound better as unless otherwise.

I wanted to followup on James' EverNote pick. I use EverNote too, but I don't care for their iOS apps. Instead, I recommend AwesomeNote. It has a polished UI worthy of an Apple product, and it syncs with EverNote. You still have all the great sharing and access features of EverNote and a great UI on iPad or iPhone.

Gordon - check out the AndAnd gem - http://andand.rubyforge.org/

I disagree with Josh about formtastic/simple_form. Formtastic itself implements forms in a way even screen reader users can have a pleasant experience. See http://www.alistapart.com/articles/prettyaccessibleforms .

terniary operator => ternary operator

Wish I had this as a blog post. Hard to follow some of the syntax ... "dot and and open bracked colon"