Archive for the ‘ rails ’ Category
Being part of the Rails community is great. It’s filled with admirable people like Katz, Koz, en Fuchs. All are active Rails core members. So I decided to go to RailsWayCon 2010 and meet them in Berlin! [ READ MORE ]
For many years now a pattern has emerged in my Rails websites. Most models will have Title, Description, Online at, Offline at, Is visible, Url and Image_file_name fields. It screams to be solved using an underlying common model using the “is_a” pattern. There is no clean way to solve this in Rails. I discovered this [ READ MORE ]
Seems like the crisis in our parliament has become global news. Guess “our boys” did some fine things in Uruzgan. Too bad the majority of the country wants to end the war. Anyway. I recently built the election special for www.radio1.nl. I just love how fast I can whip up specials like this in Ruby [ READ MORE ]
Late last year I have built the back-end for a very slick online game called MegaMythen. In this game you can play with the ancient Greek Gods and travel up mount Olympus. This game has launched today and it looks even better than I had imagined. The gameplay is very intuitive and smooth. I urge [ READ MORE ]
Z0mg Ruby on Rails 3.0 has hit beta. [ READ MORE ]
I love open source. And I love contributing to open source projects. Every time one of my patches is accepted into a project, I can’t help but smile. [ READ MORE ]
One of the sites I maintain, www.radio1.nl, was recently bombarded by GeenStijl. This is the Dutch equivalent of a slashdotting. The app held up quite well, even though I hadn’t explicitly hardened the application. [ READ MORE ]
For a long time I have been searching for built-in foreign keys in Ruby on Rails. For some reason, the core developers don’t think it’s particularly important. I don’t know why. I think foreign key constraints are absolutely essential, but who am I? [ READ MORE ]
Just thought about this now: skipping gem documentation on the production server. Makes much more sense. [ READ MORE ]
Oops, did it again… I moved my second plugin to Github just now. This one checks a bank account number in a Rails application to see if it’s valid. Dutch bank account numbers conform to the “Elfproef” checksum, so that’s a handy little tool. [ READ MORE ]
