Machinery to create object graphs and speed up tests

— June 8, 2009

Yet another stab at avoiding fixtures in a more pleasurable way.

Remarkable + Paperclip

— May 25, 2009

What a remarkable paperclip that is.

Problems with ActiveRecord messages? Hello “view-first validations”

— May 8, 2009

Stop ye whining ye yellow bellied, lily-livered landlubber!

Try() as you might

— January 11, 2009

One should not throw shoes at those that want to paint the bike shed with a rather worryingly shade of pink, but darn it, if I can have my say too in trivial matters I shall ! It may be my only freedom left..

Compiler itches

— January 10, 2009

What’s a hacker gotta do when the wife’s gone visiting her parents overseas for a couple of weeks?

You know… stuff.

Venturing into DataMapper + many-to-many self-referential graphs

— October 30, 2008

They found others, but they lack the magic that this has. — dawbs

Custom rails error pages other than 404 and 500

— September 18, 2008

A simple tip on how to generate rails error pages other than 404 and 500.

Unobtrusive jQuery + Rails

— September 4, 2008

This murder is as good as solved.

Spoutcore + Rails, part iii

— August 4, 2008

In part i of the Sproutcore + Rails series I described how to query information from a rails server and display it within a Sproutcore application. In part ii I explained how to wire the other basic CRUD operations together.
In both posts I mentioned that the REST API employed by SproutCore wasn’t really RESTful, and [...]

Automatic input focus

— August 2, 2008

Just a tiny little thing, but o so helpful that I wish everybody would implement.