I took the plunge and purchased a PDF version of Rails Recipes by Chad Fowler. I must say, I am very glad I did. The book is fantastic in both the way it is written and the snippets it provides. Infac...

i have just released my first rails plugin, Testable Logger. in a nutshell, it lets you assert that messages were (or were not) written to the application's log file during a test case. from the READ...

I’m writing this post from the comfort of my hotel room bed here at RailsConf 2006. I’ve been talking to a few folks here about the often tedious and error-prone process of configuring a S...

i've added a couple new features to the wish list management tools that make it much easier to deal with multiple wish lists. when you start adding multiple wishlists an annoying little gremlin quick...

in retrospect, i would have planned out a better sleep schedule... oh well. i had to beat a hasty retreat with an hour remaining, removing or commenting out all partially completed code. leaving me...

Well Rails Day ‘06 is finally over. I managed to get my app finished (for some definition of finished) with just a bit of time spare (although I did get some sleep as well). My app is online...

If you are using sqlite, this plugin is a nice way to speed up your tests

I got back to the ruby on rails book. I'm still at p. 163 in the testing chapter and still getting the following errors trying to run the tests: Test::Unit::AssertionFailedError: response is not a...

Although a joke, as is often the case there is a kernel of truth in this: Stephane’s thoughts corner… : Fair trade Software...

Development is going well, there were a few problems but I managed to do add a lot of stuff to the site in the last two days (and learned a lot, too). I made a basic layout for the home page and man...

The Freeborn Bikes website I’ve been working on for the past few months is now live, albeit in a ‘beta’ phase and with the e-commerce still in test mode. The site runs o...

I have now been using the DVORAK keyboard layout for one month. After reading about different keyboard layouts, and people’s success with them, I decided to give DVORAK a shot. So over my sp...

Best Practices: Sessions I've been writing rails apps for a few months now. The most painful lesson I've learned is to be careful how you use sessions…. If you don't handle your se...

Allow users to update content themselves Maintaining Websites is an art, a science, and mostly just a ton of work. Most sites don't get the attention they need, and the ones that do seem to take...

Without even trying, Rails-a-Rama! has begun to show up quite favorably in the search engines.  It’s not a real surprise, since the content of the site (mainly the posts page) is regularly rota...

I stayed up the other night and found that I started to get into a groove with RubyOnRails. The process has reminded me of my early days learning DataFlex. That was back in 1986, DataFlex was my 3rd ...

Just a note from Dmitry V. Sabanin he’s looking for someone to take over MuraveyWeb CMS. This is a full-featured Content Management System built with Ruby on Rails. Follow link to this announcem...

byline: Andrew L. Johnson Browsers can display webpages, and now webpages can display browsers (which can display …). For a quick demo, I created a Ruby mashup of a different sort (javascrip...

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