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Depth Charge

over 2 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
Over the past couple of days, I’ve run into two separate problems caused by gems being installed on one machine and not on another. Fool me once, right...

Default routing considered harmful

over 2 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
(I always wanted to write one of those “considered harmful” posts) In case you haven’t realized it yet, if you’re writing a RESTful application...

Note to self: favicons in Rails

over 2 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
Just so I can remember it later: adding a favicon to /public is not enough to get it to show up for a Rails application. You also need to update your layout...

OpenID and standard authentication usability

over 2 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
Maybe it’s just me - I haven’t implemented OpenID anywhere yet (it’s on my list, I swear!), so I could just be missing something - but is there a...

The hardest day

over 2 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
(If you read this blog for the technical bits - or have a dog - you might want to skip over this post. It’s one of those blogging-as-catharsis things...

Scaffolding is supposed to be …

over 2 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
After a couple of posts and a question directed to the Rails-Core mailing list, it finally looks like the core team has explicitly favored one goal of scaffolding...

Hey, it’s Wednesday

over 2 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
I just wanted to say how ridiculously excited I am about the release of this comic book today. Check out the preview from Newsarama!...

First draft - complete!

over 2 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
So last night I submitted the first draft of the final chapter of my book for Apress… There’s still a lot of work left to do (especially on that chapter...

Testing metrics and confidence

over 2 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
In a recent Ask 37signals post over at Signal vs. Noise, DHH said the following: We try to do a fairly good job at keeping our test suites current and...

About scaffolding

over 2 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
For everyone who ever wondered why their patch adding a form partial to the scaffolding in Rails didn’t get accepted, here’s my take on it....