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Planet Argon Blog

26 days ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
Just a quick update to let you know that I’ll be moving more of my business-related topics to the Planet Argon Blog. I invite you to subscribe to that...

Installing Ruby on Rails, Passenger, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oh My Zsh on Snow Leopard, Fourth Edition

~1 month ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
Welcome to what seems like my tenth installment (actually, it’s the fourth) of showing you how I setup my development environment on a fresh OSX install...

(oh my) Zsh themes Gone Wild! 18

2 months ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
Earlier this evening, I accepted a pull-request for theme number 18, which is now included in Oh My Zsh. To celebrate, I’ve updated the themes wiki page...

RubyURL goes GOP...

2 months ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
Will refrain from any political commentary, but was notified by some friends that the GOP was using the source code for RubyURL for their new URL shortening...

Sending email: Controllers versus Models

3 months ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
While reviewing some code recently, I came across controller code that resembled the following. if @customer.save CustomerMailer.deliver_welcome_message...

Using BETWEEN for SQL comparisons

4 months ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
Recently, Carlos, suggested that I should start sharing some basic SQL tips that help with performance and/or general usage. I recently came across some...

Launching Ruby on Rails projects, the video

4 months ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
For those of you who didn’t make it to Rails Underground in July to witness my mind-blowing talk, Launching Ruby on Rails projects , it appears that Skills...

Planet Argon Podcast, Episode 3: How We Manage Bugs

4 months ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
Earlier this week, we published Episode 3 of the Planet Argon Podcast. In this latest episode we responded to one of the ideas someone in the audience asked...

Tracking Google Analytics events in development environment with GoogleAnalyticsProxy

4 months ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
As mentioned in a recent article1, I’ve been diving deep into Google Analytics lately while working on a few client projects. We’re aiming to use much...

Planet Argon Podcast, Episode 2: The Letter Scotch

4 months ago by Robby Russell on Robby on Rails.
Earlier this week our new podcast was approved and is now available in the Apple iTunes Store. We’re also soliciting topic ideas for future episodes on...