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Rails and penis enhancements
via redemption in a blog by Chu Yeow on January 25, 2008
Funniest bug report I’ve seen on the Rails issue tracker: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10919. Be sure to read the comments, and the resolution:I appreciate that penis enhancements are the norm for most of the commenters here, but their use is definitely not widespread enough to justify fixing this.
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Feeds for Free
via err.the_blog by Chris on January 23, 2008
And money for nothing. Or something like that? Sorry, Mark Knopfler. I’ll pay more attention next time.Anyways, let us be painfully aware that we can get Atom feeds for free. Not as in beer or speech, but as in ‘zero lines of code.’ How? Microformats.You and meFormatsAlmost a year has past since we last spoke of microformats, and way more than a year since our first encounter. Seems...
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Reinventing the Clipboard
via Coding Horror by (author unknown) on January 22, 2008
Over time, I've become something of a desktop mimimalist. Sure, I'll change a few settings to my liking, but I no longer spend a lot of time customizing my desktop configuration. I've learned that if the defaults aren't reasonably close to correct out of the box, then the software is probably doomed anyway. For most users
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Handy dynamic rspec tip
via caboose - blog.caboo.se Home by Courtenay on January 21, 2008
Say you have an email validation regex that you want to quickly spec against a bunch of possible addresses, good and bad.Did you know rspec allows you to loop over arrays, dynamically creating describes and “it”s at will? I solved this tonight like so, with the help of cristi and some code of rick:
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The jSkinny on jQuery
via err.the_blog by Chris on January 07, 2008
j-j-j-jQuery. It’s on everyone’s lips, right? You love it or you hate it, or you’ve never tried it but you love it, or you’ve never tried it but you super-hate it. Yeah, we know.Well, PJ and I launched FamSpam a bit ago and made the bold move of powering all the jabbascript with jQuery. We even wrote our own Fa
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Merb Routing in 0.5
via tech on toolmantim.com by (author unknown) on January 22, 2008
Merb’s routing shiznits needs some serious documentation love. Whilst I have a shot at getting some proper docpatches together here’s an overview of how to use routing in Merb 0.5.Path MatchingThe match methoddefines how to route requests to controllers and actions.r.match("/contact"). to(:contro
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Random Rails Tidbits
via techno weenie - Home by rick on January 21, 2008
With ActiveSupport::Callbacks being extracted out of ActiveRecord and ActiveSupport::Validations on the way, it looks like Josh and lifo both did a large chunk of the work I was going to do for ActiveModel.Apparently the
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Episode 89: Page Caching
via Railscasts by Ryan Bates on January 21, 2008
Page caching is an efficient way to cache stateless content. In this episode I will show you how to cache the dynamic javascript we created last week.
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Ruby Screenshot of the Week #27: Task List
via Tor Norbye's Weblog by Tor Norbye on January 19, 2008
I've posted a number of blog entries showing NetBeans quickfixes for Ruby. This helps you detect problems in code you happen to be working on, since it shows a yellow rather than green file status if there are warnings in the file. (The file status is shown on the right hand side of the editor pane, next to the vertical scrollbar).Unfortunately, this doesn't give you
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