Category Archives: programming

On a recent project we have been using ActiveScaffold in an effort to learn the tool and judge it’s usefulness. It also seemed like a really good fit for the CRUD application we are working on. ActiveScaffold is interesting in … Continue reading →

By way of Ruby Inside, this site has a .bash(rc|_profile) function/completion to open rdocs for installed gems on your machine. I changed it slightly so that it would just open in a new tab in firefox. Put this in your … Continue reading →

There is a social networking site just for people interested in Ruby Called acts_as_community. It’s somewhat interesting, and of course I signed up, but we’ll see how much it gets used.

If you are a web developer and you recently installed Firefox 3 you may have realized that the Firebug extension no longer works. I installed the Firebug-1.2 beta this morning and it seems to be working.

If you find that Capistrano is hanging when you are attempting to deploy, adding: set :synchronous_connect, true to your deploy.rb file should fix you right up.

I have been pretty open about my editor use over the last few months. I switched to emacs a while ago, then was trying Open Komodo, etc. Then I became a consultant. It was cool at first, I have computer … Continue reading →

A while ago, I switched from Vim to Emacs. I did this for a couple of reasons. Mostly I was hoping to learn elisp which would enable me to make the editor do what I want, and avoid frustration with … Continue reading →

irb can be a lot of fun. I will usually fire it up to test something out as I am looking over some ruby.

Just to help the cause, I will post that reddit now has a dedicated sub-reddit for Ruby.

Was looking for the Ruby way to return a random array element. array = [foo, bar, baz] puts array[rand(a.size)]