So in my Rails apps lately I’ve been using the hell out of some RSpec. I have to say that it’s making me a better, more methodical coder. It’s not just allowing me to define my app in terms of expected behaviors and providing the well understood regression testing capabilities of any testing [...]
So I recently got to use Rick Olson’s attachment_fu in a Rails application I’m working on, and it is pretty awesome. It takes a lot of the hassle out of managing files that you might need to upload such as images, and even has the capability of doing thumbnails on the fly. Attachment_fu [...]
I’m at the CVREG meeting watching Jon give his presentation on GitHub, the new awesomeness that everybody (nerdy) is talking about. I’m still learning about it and figuring out how / why it’s different than Subversion, but look for a personal project on there soon.
git is a source code management system designed to make [...]
So the other day I was implementing what I considered a simple Rails association helper to make my life easier:
has_many :unapproved_posts,
:class_name => “Post”,
:finder_sql => “SELECT posts.* from posts ” +
”INNER JOIN users ON posts.user_id = users.id ” +
”INNER JOIN groups ON users.group_id = groups.id ” +
’WHERE (groups.id = #{id}) and ‘ +
’(posts.approved is [...]
So as somebody who has experienced their share of headaches deploying Rails apps (and ended up learning how to provision a VPS from scratch as a result) I’m interested in the questions Peter Cooper of Ruby Inside asks:
Is there / why isn’t there a version of mod_ruby that doesn’t have the “class sharing” issue? What [...]
Just had to post this because it was too perfect a shot not to.
The busyness won’t last; stay tuned for real blogging.
So one of the big changes I made on my new slice is to centralize my WordPress blogs. I run three WordPress sites, and having to upload a whole new codebase three times while being careful not to overwrite my customizations, plugins, themes, etc. was beginning to grate. It would be better to [...]
Praise be to jeebus - a development release of Ruby 1.9.0 was announced on ruby-lang.org Christmas Day (nice timing for the western world). I guess it’s too early to install on my new slice, and probably better to wait for the package anyway. Nevertheless, at RubyConf this year we got a sneak peak [...]
Since I’ve been on SliceHost I’ve learned a lot about server management. I’ve also made a lot of mistakes and generally made a mess out of that slice. So I got a new one and am moving everything over. This is the first post from the new slice. If you have [...]
And first YouTube upload ever. Tasha did the video on her new MacBook - like that “Ken Burns” effect? Enjoy!
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