Getting Ruby to talk to MSDE
Getting Ruby to talk to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is one thing. Getting Ruby to talk to Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition 2000, has one twist that threw me off for hours. Here, I’ll show you how...
View ArticleImplementing Ruby jobs in the background
I needed a way to kick off a background job that was triggered by an end-user on my Ramaze-backed website and could run for almost two hours! This article brings together all the elements to get the...
View ArticleWhat makes a top award candidate, anyhow?
In our local Linux user group mailing list, one of the participant asked the group for recommendations for open source software projects that should be considered for a prominent publication’s top 100...
View ArticleOne ActiveRecord Model Acting as a List and Tree
Occasionally, Rails can appear to make your life extremely easy while silently throwing you a curve-ball. I needed a model that required a hierarchy while also preserving order of the records. Although...
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Ramaze and ActiveRecord
Thanks to the great folks on IRC over at Freenode#ramaze, I was able to not only get Ramaze working with Erubis and Activerecord for a pseudo apples to apples comparison of Rails vs. Ramaze performance...
View ArticleInitial release of Elemental
I am happy to announce the initial release of Elemental 0.1.1. Elemental provides enumerated collection of elements that allow you to associate ruby symbols to arbitrary “display” values, thus allowing...
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Rails has and belongs to many (habtm) demystified
Every time I have to implement a many-to-many relationship between Rails models, I seem to have to figure out how to do it effectively all over again. Especially as Rails seems to evolve the relational...
View ArticleConverting Oddmuse Wiki to Edgewall Trac
Our company began long ago with wiki’s, but we chose the Oddmuse wiki way back when. These days, we’re heavy users of Trac wiki because of its integrated ticket support system. So what to do with all...
View ArticleGeocoded Zipcodes
You would think that loading up a database of zip codes would be an extremely simple case of finding a public database on www.usps.gov, and then loading up with a database bulk load. It turns out that,...
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DRYing your Views
Let me start out by saying that I am finally beginning to understand a bit about that magical Ruby block notion and how implementing methods through block passing can really empower you as a Ruby...
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