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Hackday: Intro to Ruby Meta-Programming
December 17, 2009 - 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 of Ruby. We found, through several conversations at Hacknight, that people were getting the hang of Ruby through their…
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Rails 3 Generators: An Introduction
February 11, 2010 - Like a lot of people, I've been watching the Rails 3 development process, but I hadn't turned any focused attention on it until the beta release last week. I've been playing with it a little, and one of the first things that struck me were the changes to the way generators work.…
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Rails 3 Generators: Say Hello!
February 25, 2010 - Still with me after the last batch of ported generators? Well, I’ve got something new for you this time – and by new, I mean unseen by Rails 2.3.5-looking eyes. That’s right, it’s time to take a look at the generators that make their first appearance in Rails…
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PUMA Running Strong with Viget
April 28, 2010 - We knew this would be a fun project. Our relationship with PUMA has evolved significantly since our first meeting late last year. What started as a user experience and visual design project grew into a major development effort running in parallel with a series of…
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Secure Ajax from Non-Secure Pages
August 10, 2010 - Ok, here’s a problem: you have a login form on your web app that needs to be protected via SSL. In addition, on every other page – none of which use SSL – you have a miniature login form that submits via Ajax. Of course, the JavaScript same origin policy…
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Getting to Grips with Git
September 7, 2010 - Since this is my first article for Viget Extend, I’ve decided to start with a short introduction. My name is John Dyer and I joined Viget at their Durham, NC, office as a development intern in July. Since then I’ve been working full time on SpeakerRate, an in-house…
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Social Media API Gotchas
September 13, 2010 - I’ve been heads-down for the last few weeks developing the web site for the new PUMA Social campaign. A major part of this site is a web-based game that rewards users for performing activities on various sites across the internet, and as such, I’ve become intimately…
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Practical Uses of Ruby Blocks
October 25, 2010 - Blocks are one of Ruby's defining features, and though we use them all the time, a lot of developers are much more comfortable calling methods that take blocks than writing them. Which is a shame, really, as learning to use blocks in a tasteful manner is one of the best…
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Extending Paul Irish’s comprehensive DOM-ready execution
October 27, 2010 - Way back in March of '09, the intelligent (and dashing!) Paul Irish laid forth a markup-based means of executing JavaScript on page load. If you're unfamiliar with the technique, the basics are: Use class and id attributes on your document's body element that map to keys in an…
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Emacs 24 Rails Development Environment - From *scratch* to Productive in 5 Minutes
January 18, 2011 - I'm a big fan of Emacs. My fellow employees at Viget enjoy a number of different editors including [Textmate](http://macromates.com) and [Vim](http://code.google.com/p/macvim/). I strongly believe that everyone should use an editor they feel productive in and most importantly,…