Saw some cool uses for SASS a the Ruby Brigade meeting last night #
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Tedious test cases with a ton of arithmatic are a pain in the ass to debug # Picasas 3.6 installs using wine under Ubuntu. Map locations don't work though http://bit.ly/14WzMU # Just found out today about the program sar for keep system statistics as part of the sysstat package. It's great #
I’ve run across Stack Overflow plenty of times in the last year or so while looking for answers, but until now I hadn’t been motivated to sign up and post questions and answers. I finally decided it might be a good thing to try out when I saw they had a jobs section, because presumably [...]
If you’re wondering what happened to this site, I decided that I was sick of trying to use Mephisto for blogging software. I love Rails development, but Mephisto was a pain in the ass and a major memory hog compared to a much more stable WordPress. It was taking down my slice pretty regularly and [...]
I’ve got a new job and it’s working almost completely in Perl. Who’d have thought? Fortunately, it really is true that if you know one programming language fairly well, you’ll understand others fairly easily. Modifying code in Perl is easy as long as I have other code to refer to, and I often forget it’s [...]
Since the old rails breakpointer quit working in versions of Ruby after 1.8.4, the preferred method for debugging rails has been to use ruby-debug. This is a separate gem, so to install you just do gem install ruby-debug However, the current version of ruby-debug (0.10.1) runs into problems on Windows, namely it doesn’t work and [...]
Now that I’m finally back in the USA it’s time to start blogging about technical things again. I doubt anyone really noticed, but this site was down for the last few months as my free Rails hosting expired back in February and I didn’t bother to renew it. I was also too busy to resetup [...]
update: I finally noticed that some people still visit this post. scope_out was great, but it’s been integrated into Rails now. It’s called name_scope and it works right out of the box with will_paginate. Round 1: scope_out A plugin I have found immensely useful is the scope_out plugin by John Andrews. The rationale for using [...]
I just signed up for a slicehost account today and am trying to setup my new server according with the deprec capistrano recipes according to the free bonus peepcode video: Building a Full Rails Stack on Ubuntu 6.06. The first capistrano task you have to run is really hard to read since the free video [...]
If you haven’t been doing test driven development, and you should be, you may not be sure how well tested your rails application is. You can use rake stats to get your code to test ratio, but that only gives you a general sense of how you’re doing, but just knowing that your ratio is [...]