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 [...]
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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 [...]
I thought this would be easy, and it was – once I figured out one little thing. You’ll probably come across Microsoft’s KB Article 236621 which got me most of the way there. The second method listed says to search the registry and replace all instances of “Documents and Settings”. This works fine if you’re [...]
I don’t know what possessed me to upgrade before this is technically even in beta, but Kubuntu’s update manager asked if I wanted to with a nice easy to click ‘yes’ button. What’s it doing tempting me like that? For a prebeta it went pretty well. It had to download over a Gig of new [...]
There’s a great article that touches on something I mentioned in my previous Linux post. While I usually perceive a benefit from being able to endlessly tweak Linux, sometimes I don’t and very few other people ever will. Kathy Sierra makes the best graphs and graphics for her article, and one that applies here is [...]
I’ve been running mostly Ubuntu Linux for a few months now and am finally starting to feel comfortable with it. I can navigate around in the command line better than I used to in DOS, and after using vi a few times without getting stuck and unable to even close it, it doesn’t seem totally [...]