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Monthly Archives: June 2008

Globalize for Rails 2.1

Posted on June 27, 2008 by joost
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Apparently there is now a Globalize branch on github for Rails 2.1. Awesome!

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jQuery here I come

Posted on June 27, 2008 by joost
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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!

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Faster erb templates

Posted on June 25, 2008 by joost
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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)

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Vulnerabilities in Ruby

Posted on June 21, 2008 by joost
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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)

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Rails 2 and RSS parsing gives weird errors

Posted on June 16, 2008 by joost
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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.

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Installing RMagick on OS X

Posted on June 14, 2008 by joost
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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.

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Things I love the bestest about Rails 2.1

Posted on June 11, 2008 by joost
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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]

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