Rails Layouts on a Per-Method Basis

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:36:05 -0500

Many Rails developers will create a default layout in application.html.erb and use it as a consis...

multiple values for block parameter

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:35:57 -0400

Not that you would ever do this, but have you ever known anyone who wrote code l...

rSpec: Sending Headers to Controllers

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:08:22 -0400

Didja ever wonder how to send a particular HTTP

jQuery Plugins

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:54:10 -0400

Today I posted a couple of simple jQuery plugins on github. They are:

jquery.focus_fi...

Getting Depot to Work in Rails 2.0

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:07:06 -0500

911 The Depot App in AWDROR Won’t W...

Learn to Program

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:03:22 -0500

Nope. This is not an ad for some technical school. Fooled you, huh? This is more about the techni...

Upgrading to Rails 2.0

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:11:17 -0500

Real quick. What’s Gonna Break When I Upgrade to Rails 2.0.2?

I’m su...

Why Copy Protection Is Not Ok

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:26:31 -0400

This is an old topic, but one worth revisiting occasionally. Most of us use some commercial softw...

Using Conditional Assignments

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:52:12 -0400

Often the programming pattern “set this to such-and-such unless it already has a value̶...

Testing: Mocking, Stubbing, and Rails, Oh My!

Thu, 03 May 2007 15:54:10 -0400

Ruby is a great language and the various test frameworks that support it make writing solid code ...

Bootstrapping RSpec Generation

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:24:56 -0400

For existing projects, I find myself spec’ing ex-post-facto (which I know is not the

Creating New Haml Filters

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:31:52 -0400

Recently (like, yesterday), I decided to create a Haml filter to wrap inline Javascript. If you d...

Using ActionMailer with Haml (and others)

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:35:01 -0400

Haml has made my Rails development far more precise and the number of display glitches far fewer....

rSpec Redux

Fri, 11 May 2007 12:57:32 -0400

If you read my post on rSpec, you may infer tha...

Haml -- Great Alternative to Rhtml

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:28:34 -0400

I’ve become a true Haml convert. What does that mean? First, what is Haml? Haml is a markup...

How Was This Site Built?

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:46:01 -0500

A natural question when you look at a site might be, “how did they build that”? Here ...

Validation Without a Database Table

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:07:18 -0500

Contact forms are a way of life on the Web and so we as developers implement them time and again....

Installing "Stock" Plugins

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:59:40 -0500

After working with Rails for a bit, we form working habits and one of mine is to install the same...

rSpec -- Behavior Driven Development

Fri, 11 May 2007 12:48:05 -0400

rSpec is my favorite tool du jo...

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