Postings
rails
Mar 03, 2009
BaseWithoutTable
The BaseWithoutTable Rails plugin is handy for making models that don't have a corresponding database table. I started using it about a year ago and thought I do a little writeup about it.
musings
Feb 01, 2009
Self image
I thought I'd pass along this comic strip which, unfortunately, rings more truth than I care to admit... :)
My NH Ruby Presentation
Last night I presented at the monthly NH Ruby users group meeting.
Show me the response
Using Cucumber, the executable plain-text documentation tool, you may want to see the current page in a scenario. I use a generic "And (show me)" step.
rails
Dec 16, 2008
Oh my, my, my
A technique for handling routes to resources that the current user owns.
Eat Gooey Cookies
How I'm using cookies to communicate non-critical user activity back to the server. My application and this example uses Ruby on Rails with jQuery for client-side javascript, and the jQuery cookie plugin. and JSON .
rails
Dec 03, 2008
A cute little underscore thingy
I found myself frequently doing something like "table_#{id}", so i added a little string method that lets me say 'table'._(id)