http://jeremyweiland.com The home page of Jeremy Weiland Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:31:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://jeremyweiland.com/archives/59 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 ... http://jeremyweiland.com/archives/49 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 ... http://jeremyweiland.com/archives/48 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 ... http://jeremyweiland.com/archives/47 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 ... http://jeremyweiland.com/archives/46 Just had to post this because it was too perfect a shot not to. The busyness won’t last; stay tuned for real blogging. http://jeremyweiland.com/archives/45 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. ... http://jeremyweiland.com/archives/44 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 ... http://jeremyweiland.com/archives/43 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 ... http://jeremyweiland.com/archives/41 And first YouTube upload ever. Tasha did the video on her new MacBook - like that “Ken Burns” effect? Enjoy! http://jeremyweiland.com/archives/39