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Entries Tagged as 'Ruby on Rails'

Beware the Upgrade

March 29th, 2006 · No Comments

The big news of Rails 1.1 has hit. Upgrades were happening fast and furious all over the land. Except here. We’re just about to deploy our third rails app and there is no way in Hades that we would try and pull an upgrade in the middle of that.

Update: Of course, the […]

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Tags: Ruby on Rails · Web Development

Market Pressure

March 7th, 2006 · No Comments

Wherein we all rediscover MVC, for the first time.

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Tags: PHP · Ruby on Rails · Web Development

Rails 1.1

February 27th, 2006 · No Comments

Wow. Very cool. I know Scott will love that every object now sports a to_json method.

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Reserved Words

February 24th, 2006 · No Comments

If you try and hook up a Rails app to an existing database and it’s acting all funky and you have no idea what the heck is going on, double check to make sure you aren’t using any reserved words in your tables.

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All Along The Switchtower

February 11th, 2006 · No Comments

Yes, yes…a horrible pun. Sue me. I caught a few good Switchtower links that needed to be filed here for all time.

Ode to Switchtower which has a few handy tips, including the update_current task which I wish I had know about this past week.
Jamis Buck on multiple deployment stages

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Hurts So Good

February 8th, 2006 · No Comments

Okay, so everyone (and by “everyone” I mean “the 2.5 people who read this site”) now knows that were digging Rails, despite some minor pains. Today had some particularly brutal points while we hammered out some nice features for our second Rails app. We did battle with MVC, trying to corrupt it’s design […]

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Exploring Rails

February 5th, 2006 · No Comments

Yes, it’s not exactly a secret that Scott and I have been working on some small projects in Rails. The funny thing, to me at least, is that all the hard stuff isn’t getting used to a new language (Ruby). The hardest bits are installing and using new tool chains. It reminded […]

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Just Sayin’

February 2nd, 2006 · No Comments

waldorf:~/Projects/equipment pberry$ rake stats
(in /Users/pberry/Projects/equipment)
——————————————-+———-+————-+————-+——-+———-+
| Name | Lines | LOC | Classes | Methods | M/C | LOC/M |
——————————————-+———-+————-+————-+——-+———-+
| Helpers | […]

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Tags: Ruby on Rails

Rails Single Sign-On

November 16th, 2005 · No Comments

Wherein we play with using CAS with rails apps.

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Tags: Authentication · Ruby on Rails

Rails Without Virtual Hosts

November 9th, 2005 · No Comments

Doing virtual hosts on campus can be a bit of a pain, mostly because we need to get entries made to DNS for each host. It’s not a huge deal, but the Net Ops guys have better things to do. We just aren’t setup for ISP/web hosting like places such as Dreamhost and […]

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