Justin Marney, Web Developer

Hackday: Intro to Ruby Meta-Programming


over 2 years ago by Justin Marney, Web Developer on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
This past Saturday we hosted the third Hackday at Viget Labs (photos). For this round we decided to tackle meta-programming, one of the more mystical features...

(re)-Introducing simple_importer


over 2 years ago by Justin Marney, Web Developer on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
simple_importer has existed for some time as a lowly little gem that made it easy to create CSV import scripts using the Ruby CSV library. The API was usable...

Rails 3 Generators: Hooks


~2 years ago by Justin Marney, Web Developer on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
As we saw in some of the earlier posts in the series, the Rails 3 generator API provides a feature that allows you to customize the default generators via...