Category ruby

MAY 21 2011
Hiding ruby gem 'is deprecated with no replacement' messages

Filed under quickie, rails, ruby, and rvm.

How to hide all the ugly ruby deprecation messages when you upgrade... read more
MAY 04 2011
Weekend Project - Time Out In NZ

Filed under announcement, programming, rails, and ruby.

A quick weekend project to help people who've lost their homes in the Japanese quakes... read more
DEC 08 2010
Jekyll plugins for categories, projects and sitemaps

Filed under jekyll, plugin, programming, ruby, and web.

A couple of Jekyll plugins we wrote to generate some of the content on this site... read more
NOV 03 2010
A weekend project - fromthecache.com

Filed under announcement, company, html5, programming, rails, ruby, sass, and web.

A weekend project that provides transparent access to the Google cache via a web app... read more
OCT 21 2010
Introducing Rails Kitchen Sink

Filed under announcement, company, html5, programming, rails, ruby, sass, and web.

Yet another rails-project-starter, but this time it's ours... read more
OCT 12 2010
Static blogging the Jekyll way

Filed under company, html5, jekyll, programming, ruby, sass, and web.

An overview of some of the technologies we used to build the new site... read more
OCT 03 2010
HABTM before_filter in rails models

Filed under database, habtm, quickie, rails, and ruby.

How to automatically add an object to a habtm field on save... read more
OCT 03 2010
Excluding fields from rails json and xml output

Filed under json, quickie, rails, rest, ruby, and xml.

How to stop specific fields from being output when rendering to json or xml... read more
SEP 14 2010
Integrating Jekyll with FeedBurner

Filed under feedburner, jekyll, rss, ruby, and web.

A few pointers on setting up FeedBurner for your Jekyll site... read more
FEB 14 2010
Updating RubyGems on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Filed under git, linux, osx, programming, ruby, and version control.

How to update RubyGems from v1.0.1 to v1.3.5 on OS X... read more
FEB 14 2010
Installing git-up on Ubuntu 8.10

Filed under git, linux, programming, ruby, and version control.

How to get git-up running properly on Ubuntu 8.10... read more
APR 29 2009
'spec/rake/spectask' errors doing rake db:migrate

Filed under linux, programming, quickie, ruby, and web.

What to do if you get "no such file to load -- spec/rake/spectask_" errors running rake db:migrate... read more
APR 26 2009
'Can't find Magick-config' error installing rmagick gem

Filed under linux, programming, quickie, ruby, and web.

How to fix a 'Can't find Magick-config' error when installing the rmagick gem... read more
FEB 24 2009
undefined method assert_valid_keys in Rails

Filed under database, programming, quickie, rails, ruby, and web.

How to fix 'undefined method assert_valid_keys' errors in Rails... read more
DEC 23 2008
Nginx adds strange characters using rails/memcached_pass

Filed under linux, memcached, nginx, programming, quickie, rails, ruby, and web.

How to stop strange characters appearing when using rails, memcached and the nginx memcached_pass directive... read more
DEC 22 2008
Phusion Passenger PassengerMaxPoolSize is ignored

Filed under apache, programming, quickie, rails, ruby, and web.

How to setup apache so that the Phusion Passenger PassengerMaxPoolSize, PassengerMaxInstancesPerApp and PassengerPoolIdleTime directives are not ignored... read more
DEC 03 2008
memcaches_page plugin for Rails

Filed under linux, memcached, plugin, programming, rails, ruby, and web.

A Rails plugin to cache entire pages to memcached, allowing you to use nginx to serve your site directly from memory... read more
AUG 20 2006
Rails NameError

Filed under programming, rails, ruby, and web.

How to fix 'NameError (uninitialized constant UnknownAction)' error in rails... read more