Mike Clark has laid out a comprehensive tutorial on how to upload images with Rick Olson’s attachment_fu plugin. I don’t have much to add to this, but I thought I’d share my personal experience...

As you can see, it seems during my little vacation someone was kind enough to totally abuse my site by posting over 2,500 trackbacks for drugs and god only knows what else. Typo cant even handle v...

I was playing around with layouts in Rails the other day… I know, clearly I have too much time on my hands. But anyway, I found that you can fake a nested layout scheme in Rails by delegating vi...

Every night before I go to bed I try to sit down and read for five minutes. Five minutes of reading may sound really useless when ones goal is to finish a book but that is not my intention. I spend ...

Me desaparecí completamente de la web y me parece que ya era hora de regresar. Me gusta ser un blogger y tener mi información en internet. Ya veremos como va la cosa. Nuevamente no tengo...

In a word iterators. No single language feature has changed the way I think about code more than the simple, now seemingly obvious, pervasive, compelling act of passing anonymous code into a method ...

I’m always forgetting the handy Ruby tab triggers for TextMate. Today I went through them and highlighted a few that you just can’t afford to miss. r # => attr_reader :attr_names...

On our current project we use Rails migrations for table creation, table modification, and data initialization. Our migrations worked well enough when they were run incrementally through the course o...

Así es. Es el turno para México y nace un partido que esta en contra de las patentes. Y lucha por los derechos de los ciudadanos a informar y ser informados. Como ponen en su sitio web, NO se trata ...

One way to generate a lot of “500 – Application Failed” errors in Ruby on Rails applications running on Dreamhost is by throwing a lot of errors. Right now my newly downloaded Typo ...

Sweet little framework that it is Camping doesn't waste space providing a means for authentication. Most Camping apps probably don't need it, and those that do probably need something rather custom. ...

I only came across H.264 recently, up to that point I thought DivX was supposed to be the be all and end all of video encoding. Two things brought it to my attention, first the promise of much smaller...

Hace 2 meses, realizamos el cambio de RubyLandia para que fuera más eficiente, para que tuviera mayor impacto. Este cambio resultó: más que duplicamos el número. Y más visitas significa más alca...

Remember DiggDong (the dashboard widget that lets you keep track of your Digg submissions automatically)? Well, you can now check out the source from my project repository:svn checkout http://missingm...

… or so it seems! I was trying to profile a worker running in BackgrounDRb and I kept getting errors almost as soon as I’d call RubyProf.start looking like this: ./script/../vendor/rails/activer...

In the early part of 2006, in my hometown Pune, everyone would associate Ruby with 'Ratnaraj' or "king of precious stones" as per our ancient language of Sanskrit. Over the year th...

Man, the Ruby Inside Advent Calendar 2006 is pretty cool. That guy from Err the Blog even made a guest post about Piston. Too bad there isn’t a Rails-specific advent calendar… Well, ...

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I was talking with a friend of mine last week about the new Rails deprecation warnings that you’ll see when you do naughty things like access @cookies from your controller or use deprecated meth...