December 2008
1 post
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merbalist
I’m going to write my own blog and migrate off of tumblr. I’ve been working with Ruby on Rails for a few months but feel it prudent to learn another Ruby framework named “Merb”.
I’m loving what I’m seeing with Merb so far.
November 2008
3 posts
acts_as_rateable issues
If you’re trying to use “acts_as_rateable” bare in mind the tutorials I have found are not yet updated and posing some problems.
The first one I ran into was the migration generated in the tutorial. The tutorials I have found have you script/generate a migration which you add code to generate the ratings table. You need a rates join table as well, which isn’t included...
Projects coming to an end
4 Rails apps are in various stages of completion with one being capified and deployed over the weekend to slicehost.
My initial thoughts:
-Ruby Enterprise Edition DID provide a noticeable performance increase in production.
-Capistrano is by far one of my favorite administration tools.
-Working with Ruby on Rails was 110% times more relaxing than Visual Studio or Delphi. I was focused on...
Missouri Politics
I was out eating for a friend’s birthday Saturday night. Barack Obama was apparently staying at the hotel attached to the restaraunt we were eating at - cops walking the parking not admitting Obama was staying there while smiling at the same time.
My Fiance: “Is Obama staying here???”
Cop: :smiles: nooooooo
My Fiance: “Do you think he’ll come out?”
Cop: No
...
September 2008
10 posts
Expansion? Sure
I’ve taken a break from Rails to just learn Ruby - have some programs I can make in Ruby for systems administration and some task automation - doing this has produced a TON of lightbulb moments relating to Rails. I don’t like dealing with Rails magic and not understanding what’s going on - so I’ve also been reading rails source here and there.
After hearing a Rails...
Scaling?
I have to rant about this.
I know people think wether or not a given..what’s the right word…develomental approach..yah..wether or not a given developmental approach to a problem is “scalable” or not. Ever since I decided to skinny dip in the pool known as Ruby on Rails I’ve been reading countless blogs/forum posts/tattoo’s on the ass of a fat girl/etc about...
Web developing - in hell
Hell?
I’ve obviously realized that since I don’t have a design department..or even a designer staffed..developing web applications means I have to learn things like CSS, proper semantic HTML, and Ajax. The realization hit me HARDER than ever just now though.
See, I was having some issues with Rails earlier. I come from a non framework background..Rails..Django..you name it - they...
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fu
Today we built and distributed an update of our application - only to find out through lack of proper testing a piece of test data got out..a bad piece of test data…
OH WELL
Today I learned what Ruby symbols actionally _ARE_ - symbolic references to a single string..VERY useful if you had a hash of say { ‘first_name’ => ‘Bob’} . Chances are the string containing...
Rails - Issues Thus Far
When converting something like Dr Dispatch from a desktop C/S Win32 application to a web application accessed via a browser a few questions have come up.
1) Reporting? I think I’ve found the closet thing to answer with Ruports
2) Migration? - What’s the easiest method to import desktop application data into the new rails app? Am I looking at dumping to CSV and importing? Seems...
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Rails - it's coming together.
I’m beginning to get the hang of the Rails framework. I’m finding Ruby to be the easy part.
I’m messing around with acts_as_taggable_on_steroids and found it easy to use save for the tag_cloud stuff. The README on the plugin seems to miss a few things…I almost have it up and running though. I’m down to the tag_cloud helper producing invalid links - I think I need...
Fear and Loathing in Windowsland.
After my last post I changed some things about how I work.
I bought an IMac, MacBook, TextMate, and began spending as much time in this environment working on some real Rails code. Code I’ll use for internal management applications my employees will use.
I love it - it’s how I wish I would’ve been developing from day 1.
Anytime I have to boot into Windows via Fusion or on one...
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Bullet? I bit it and now need a rising sound
I finally jumped on the bandwagon and scored a blog.
I’m primarily going to use this to document my adventures of converting my over 1 million lines of Delphi code desktop C/S Win32 app to a ruby on rails application.
I’ve been creating tiny little test apps with both Rails and Django. I’m really liking working with them. It’s making development, after 10 years of working outside of app...