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Rails, Internationalization, and Tú
July 2, 2009 - Internationalization (or I18n if you’re hep) is a bear of a problem to deal with in software development. I’ve had to work with a multi-lingual site in PHP before. It wasn’t painful, but it was constantly annoying. I just got a chance to work with…
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Hackday Recap
July 14, 2009 - Saturday (July 11th) marked the first Ruby Hackday event organized by the Ruby Hacknight group, and hosted here at Viget Labs HQ in Falls Church, VA. The idea for Hackday was simple: provide a free-of-charge, guided discussion on Ruby- and Rails-related topics that was open…
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Single-Use jQuery Plugins
July 16, 2009 - One of the best features of jQuery is its simple, powerful plugin system. The most obvious reason to write a plugin is the same reason you’d create a Rails plugin: to package up functionality for reuse. While code reuse between projects is certainly a worthy goal, it sets…
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Provisional: New And Improved!
August 3, 2009 - Back in May, we announced Provisional, our tool for automating bootstraps. Since then, we've made a few changes that we think are worth mentioning in a new post. Check out our Provisional commercial after the cut.Hi, Heroku here! Heroku is an “instant Ruby platform”…
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Supercharging Routes.rb
August 7, 2009 - I’ve crusaded against the catch-all route in Rails applications for a while now: ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map| # ... map.connect ':controller/:action/:id' end At the same time, I’ve been guilty of using something just as bad:…
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Git: A Designer’s Perspective
August 20, 2009 - Let me start by saying I'm not one of those super tech-minded designers who loves to dive into new programs. Especially when those programs involve heavy use of the command line and every tutorial written about them is so technical it might as well be in another language. I was…
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Viget Devs Storm Chicago
September 15, 2009 - This past weekend, Ben and I travelled to Chicago to speak at Windy City Rails. It was a great conference; highlights included Dean Wampler’s discussion of functional programming in Ruby, Noel Rappin’s talk on handling difficult-to-test portions of your…
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Wrapping Rails Session Hash
September 16, 2009 - The best way to use session data in Rails is sometimes a bit elusive. One technique I see from time to time is using a before_filter to pull data from the session, and store it in an instance variable. class AccountsController < ApplicationController before_filter…
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Getting Started with MongoDB & MongoMapper
September 17, 2009 - As part of our NoSQL exploration, I’ve spent some time lately with MongoDB. MongoDB bills itself as a “schema-free document-oriented database.” In using MongoDB, I’ve found it to be an easy transition from RDBMS’s because of the way it organizes…
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Using ruby-debug to Find Those Hard-To-Reach Places (bugs)
September 29, 2009 - I've been writing Rails applications for a little over two years now, but only recently has ruby-debug been added to my tool belt. Since then, I've been using it almost every week and have found it super useful. If you take five minutes to learn the six commands I'll provide for…