You want a RESTful Rails app with a backend administration? The worst thing to do in my opinion is to use the same controllers for the public and the admin side. At first, it might look wise to do this. I mean, if you have a “books” resource, it would be logical that all methods […]
The situation You want to type “cap deploy” without having to enter your ssh password every time The background You have configured your server to allow public key authentications over ssh and have given the proper permissions to the resulting files & folders (how to do this). Oh and the repository as well as your […]
What if you want to generate reasonably short alphanumeric user activation codes without having to store anything in a DB (so in this case generating random user codes won’t do) ? Why would someone need this? Think about an application where you want to print activation cards and sell them to your customers. The customer […]
When you are developing an app or a website for your client, it is pretty common to setup a sandbox environment where your client can test and see the application while it is still in development. One thing I find useful is to display the last deployment date on the home page. Here is a […]
Hello everyone, For the past few months this blog has been pretty much dead. I could give you tons of excuses as for why it has been so but that’s all they would be, mere excuses! And I assure you that you would not find any of them very convincing. I received several comments recently […]
Hello there, I’m sorry for not updating my blog more often. Now is the time to use the best excuse in the world that will make me look like a busy businessman and you will all be impressed. Here we go : I don’t have the time! I know a lot of you are using […]
This first part aims at explaining how Ruby in the background is not Ruby anymore. In the next part I’m going to talk about HOW to bridge some existing C library with your ruby application. As you might know already, the official ruby interpreter is written in pure C. This means that whenever you type […]
First of all, I’d like to deny the rumor that I am dead. I’m struggling since day #1 to find a good code editor for ruby. Mac users are happy with their textmate… but what’s left for us linux users? I tried gedit, vim, scribes and eclipse (with the aptana plugin) but wasn’t happy enough […]
simplyglobal : A simple globalization plugin for Rails The following is a guest post from Dan Simard Sometimes, you have to reinvent the wheel. It’s really sad to say and you will probably hate me for saying that (and I know that you’ll do because I hate myself for it). I’ve written a new globalization […]
Flashback time. We are in 1999 and you are coding in ASP… yet people are not laughing at you.