Archive for June, 2008
Apparently there is now a Globalize branch on github for Rails 2.1. Awesome! [ READ MORE ]
I have been meaning to switch to jQuery for a while now: phatter effects, cleaner syntax and more lightweight, what more could a boy want? Well, my built-in view helpers darn it! Enter jRails (stage left, as they say). All jQuery goodness, no Prototype badness, I rule! [ READ MORE ]
You can have them too! Even without fancy schmancy haml (which is nice, I admit). Just wait for Rails 2.2 or install edge right now. Massive speed improvements in Rails core. 933697a – 0bdb7d3 – 4d4c8e2 (from living on the edge) [ READ MORE ]
Oops! There are some nasty vulnerabilities in Ruby. I guess Zed was right after all. It seems there’s more wrong than even he has led on though. Unfortunately when doing the upgrade by Rails segfaults, so I am between a rock and a hard place. (From RoR) [ READ MORE ]
Finally! After many weeks I managed to track down a very strange bug. When parsing RSS feeds using Ruby’s built-in RSS::Parser, sometimes I would get bombs in Rails when trying to insert item.pubDate into the database. [ READ MORE ]
It is what Muad’dib said: “fear is the mind-killer” (full quote below). Oh I feared installing RMagick on OS X. The fear nearly paralyzed me (well not really). Turns out I had nothing to fear. [ READ MORE ]
These are the features I am most pleased with. Thanks to Carlos Brando, who created an excellent free PDF. Hey my name is in there too! [return-path bug fix] [ READ MORE ]
