Archive for the 'Ruby' Category

Ruby on Rails Exchange

Well, we made it to the first RoR eXchange - a mini-conference organised by skillsmatter up in London. On the speakers list were some cool ...

Testing Rocks

Well, recently I embraced unit testing. Over the last year I’ve been so busy, with such tight deadlines, often working on existing software (which had ...

How Rails Made Me A Better Programmer

Or How Rails Let Me Embrace My Lazy Side Before learning Rails and Ruby, I was a dabbler. I can program in many languages and have ...

Static site development

When developing a static site, or editing an existing one, its a bitch to try and remember things like relative and absolute paths, etc etc. ...

Mephisto Comment Hack

For some reason, mephisto was breaking when comments were posted. Basically it wouldn’t allow you to post comments if one had already been posted - ...

Propelling

It’s a great feeling when you finally manage to put something live that you’ve made for yourself. Last night we all got that feeling when we ...

Rails code that doesn’t get executed for generations and migrations

At work, we’ve developed some plugins that cause issues when invoked in generators. For instance, you may be creating controllers on the fly, and so ...

Shattered Ubuntu

I've been taking a look at the Shattered 3D Ruby rails-like application framework recently for something to mess about with, but getting it to work ...

XHTML Strict Invalid with RESTful forms

At work, I discovered that using the standard “form_for” helper with simply restful generated invalid markup, since the secret “fake method” input tag was not ...

Tired

I was at work till 3am this morning (woohoo 10 hours overtime!), most of which was wasted on a tiny bug which came down to ...