Category Archive for: ‘Ruby on Rails’

• Migrations, Migrations

  Or, “Migrating a blog is always more painful than you think.” I hope you can see this. If all goes well, this blog has been migrated from WordPress to Typo, running Ruby on Rails over Lighttpd. I’ve seen a few feed hits coming through, but …

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• Some Comments About Shopify

  Shopify has been touted as one of those Rails apps that’s going to change the face of the web. I don’t think so, and my comments about why it wasn’t appropriate for me (for fuzzyorange.com) went completely unanswered. Since others may be considering shopify, here’s …

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• RailsDay 2006

  Well, I missed it (busy doing things I couldn’t move in time), but I thought I’d see who used which plugins for Railsday, just to see if there were any cool new ones. Here’s the list. I got it by checking out the source for …

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• Day with Topfunky

  Yesterday, I went up to the city to spend time at Geoffrey Grosenbach’s Rails workshop, offered by Carson Workshops. While I was already better-versed in Rails than most anyone there, there’s always things you pick up from other people, and it was an excellent recharger …

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• SDForum Ruby Conference, day 2

  Chris Wanstrath offers a pretty complete transcription of a very flawed talk by Alex Chaffee. There were some really interesting talks, but one thing I was hoping for in the domain-specific language talk was, you know, an actual example for creating a DSL. (edited to …

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• Using a Sessions Table in Ruby on Rails

  A few days ago, I changed the table name of the wrong table (without realizing it, of course). Suddenly, my rails app wouldn’t start at all, and no errors in the development log. Naturally, I had a client demo in less than an hour…. What …

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• The Year in Brief

  Trips taken: 7 Seattle, Calgary, Glasgow, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Diego. Airlines flown: 5 United, Air Canada, British Airways, American, Southwest Traveler’s Century Club countries visited: 4 United States (Continental), Canada, England, Scotland (none new) Conventions where I was a speaker: 3 …

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• Inflections, Again

  Back when there was the virus/viri/virii/viruses/virus and octopus/octopi/octopodes/octopuses debate on the Rails list, somehow I missed this article on my husband’s web site. In short, in classical Latin usage, virus was an uncountable noun, thus its lack of a definitive plural. It is only the …

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• Acts as Chunky Bacon

  Ruby on Rails 1.0 is out, along with the new and improved web site. One of the things I like most is the featuring of Why the Lucky Stiff’s Poignant Guide. Chunky bacon! sudo gem update rails –include-dependencies

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• The Clearing of the Decks

  I realized I haven’t been writing too much about Ruby on Rails lately, but there’s been a grand flurry of activity. At one point, I had nine Ruby on Rails projects in the air, which was driving me crazy because I can’t wrap my brain …

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