Quick Tip: Rails Singularization of -ess
Have you ever created a Ruby on Rails application dealing with businesses or addresses? I’d be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t. Strangely, though, Rails does not have an inflection that deals...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Cucumber Works-in-Progress
After upgrading to the latest gems, including cucumber and webrat, I noticed a deprecation message when trying to run rake features. There are new rake tasks now for running cucumber features: So now,...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Rails Named Bind Variables
Have you ever come across a Ruby on Rails query that has so many conditions that it’s hard to figure out what is being replaced where? While this can be somewhat mitigated by using Rails named scopes,...
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View ArticleHoneypot Captchas for Rails
A while ago, I read a few articles on the technique of honeypot captchas and thought it was a pretty simple, but interesting, technique. Essentially, with honeypot captchas you add fields into public...
View ArticleIE7 resize window problem
While developing an embeddable JavaScript widget, I ran across a problem in IE7 recently that was pretty strange. Some of the elements on the page appeared to be fixed (i.e., position: fixed) when...
View ArticleIE tries to be helpful when using JavaScript to set the href attribute
Have you ever tried to set an anchor tag’s href attribute using JavaScript? It’s pretty easy, even without a JavaScript library (jQuery, Prototype, etc.). All you need to do is find (or create) the...
View ArticleArizona’s First Ruby Conference – SunnyConf 2010
It started as an impromptu chat about getting more Ruby sessions into events like Desert Code Camp. A small group of rubyists met in the courtyard of DeVry University after the lunch break and kicked...
View ArticleSay hello to the new Phoenix OpenCoffee Club
When the Phoenix chapter of OpenCoffee Club was started, it got by at first with a group on Yahoo’s Upcoming event site. That worked for a little while, but I don’t consider it to be a very good...
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View ArticleHow Twitter replaced my RSS reader
I used to subscribe to blogs via RSS through Bloglines, then Google Reader. Now, I don’t subscribe to them at all. Strangely, RSS readers have become an obsolete, thing of the past for me and I didn’t...
View ArticleJekyll Presentation at Ruby AZ
We recently switched from WordPress to the Jekyll static site generator at my Ruby development company, Flatterline. So, I put together a Jekyll presentation based on that experience. Here are the...
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