Category: rails
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How I became a web developer
When I was 6 or 7 years old, my Grandparents bought me the most awesome gift ever… a NES. This set me down a path [...]
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github and submodule weirdness
So I’m not a git or github master by any means. For the most part, I know enough commands to get by and to get [...]
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flickr gadget for google wave
So I got an invite to Google Wave last week. It was pretty fun to play around with the latest and greatest toy from google, [...]
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adding blackbird javascript logging to your rails project
Blackbird is a nifty JavaScript logger that can be added to any web app. Ever find yourself adding alerts into your JavaScript to get some [...]
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rails: building urls to static html in public dir
In rails when you create links in your view it’s best to use link_to or url_for tags when creating urls. However, both of these methods [...]
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getting thickbox, jquery, and prototype to play together nicely
The latest version of the JumpBox admin interface uses ThickBox for its cool visual effects, and prototype for handling AJAX requests. The problem is that [...]
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rails: multiple request values with the same name
Let’s say you have a web app that takes input from the user. How about a phone book app for storing phone numbers. And let’s [...]
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rails: getting ip address from request
This is useful if you want to log the ip address of the person using your rails app (except when the person is behind a [...]
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desert code camp
The second Desert Code Camp is coming up this weekend. “Code Camp is a free, one-day event put on by the local Phoenix community to [...]
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missing gems/plugins
The designer of a project I’m working on decided to use the RedCloth ruby gem in the project we’re working on. He installed the gem [...]
