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Post-Halloween RadRails trick - all TextMate snippets available

over 3 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic. [Linked from: Ruby Inside]
HTML snippets 48 Ruby snippets 199 I tease myself with things I can’t have - like watching TextMate demo videos. One wonderful video shows a test-driven...

map_by_method now increasingly more niftier-er.

over 3 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Recap on map_by_method magic: >> p.account.transfers.map_amount # amount method mapped to all Transfers => [1878.35, 433.0, 433.0, 433.46, 433.46, 433...

Congratulations to Mr Dilbert - Scott Adams

over 3 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
That he writes the funniest, most relevant cartoon strip around is secondary to the man himself, and his life journey. A year and a half ago he lost his...

53 cheat sheets and growing

over 3 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
I said previously that errtheblog’s cheat app would have 100s+ of cheat sheets. After a month and a half, they are now half way. There is still more...

Create and deploy command line apps with RubyGems

over 3 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
RubyGems have many things going for them: they are a local, central repository for all external libraries, they have explicit versioning, you get inter-gem...

How to make rails scale - get a Sun BlackBox

over 3 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
Here is the answer to the question “does Rails scale?” that you’ve been getting at parties lately:...

Railsconf 2007 - who’s coming?

over 3 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
It probably won’t mean you get free tickets, and if they don’t sell 2000 tickets, it probably won’t guarantee that you’ll get one...

My .irbrc for console/irb

over 3 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
The relatively unspoken warhorse of Ruby/Rails programming is the irb/console [1]. Ruby is such a joy to work with in part from this one development tool...

[ANN] Generating new gems for graceful goodliness

over 3 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
I don’t like you [1]. You don’t share code. I know, I know, you’ve had good reasons - you don’t know how to create a Ruby gem, how...

ls /dev/il to blame?

over 3 years ago by Dr Nic on Dr Nic.
RubyForge has been down a few times in the last few weeks. With halloween approaching, Tom Copeland (maintainer of RF servers), did some daemon hunting...