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Remember to contribute as much as you can - especially today - to Ron Paul! Both Tasha and I just submitted our donations.

And first YouTube upload ever. Tasha did the video on her new MacBook - like that “Ken Burns” effect? Enjoy!

I’m in the final hours of my first RubyConf, the annual international conference for rubyists being held in Charlotte, NC this weekend. There’s been way too much information for me to possibly absorb completely, but the exposure to the community, the attitudes and thinking, and the possibilities people are exploring has certainly been a [...]

Over at the Central Virginia Ruby Enthusiasts Group (cvreg.org) blog I recently contributed an article reflecting on my talk to a local high school web design class. Since the overwhelming topic was money and jobs, not the art of programming and design, I had a chance to impart some of my observations of the [...]

Over the past few days I’ve been diving into Selenium, a automated functional testing tool for web apps. It’s pretty slick - in fact, like most of the technologies I’ve been using over the past two years, it does so much for you that the obstacle always ends up being a matter of getting [...]

Well, I’ve put the update on my life off for far too long, time to come clean. As of Tuesday I am working for a D.C.-based web development firm that is focusing on Ruby and Rails. I get to work from home in Richmond and the work I’m doing is some pretty cutting [...]

I’ve asked around about this issue and nobody has been able to give me a straightforward solution. It is for that reason that I’m not afraid to share my hack. If there’s a better way to do this in Rails, let me know.
The problem: you’re using some sort Numeric field for storing monetary [...]

It’s not difficult to alter how Rails logs requests. Just look at ActionController::Base#log_processing (see code here), and you can see that’s it’s basically just printing request.inspect. So if you override that method in your ApplicationController, you can change how requests are logged. This was important for me, because I’m using gsub to [...]

Or, rather, the Rails web app I’ve been working on for the past month can. After a very frustrating week of slack-ass-edness from Wachovia, we finally got stuff hooked up right for credit card donations to this new political action committee. So the big hurdle has officially been crossed - though at the [...]

OK. So you have been using migrations to iteratively modify your database and populate it with information as you flesh out your application. Awesome. Now, what happens when you change the model definitions and try to rollback and then roll forward?
This is the problem I’m encountering. For example, I’ve made changes to [...]