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Automatically Validate Uniqueness of Columns with Scope

over 5 years ago by Simon Harris on My hovercraft is full of eels.
The first cut at Schema Validations only applied validates_uniqueness_of for single-column unique indexes. This removed 80% of the cases in my code base...

RailsConf Europe: DHH Rant

over 5 years ago by Christian on xml-blog.
Too good not to post. In short, this is open source software. Don’t __expect__ stuff and get indignant. If you want to wring someone’s neck...

Rails Conf Europe Notes: Capistrano

over 5 years ago by Christian on xml-blog.
What is Capistrano? Deployment tool, yes, but can be for much more Taking Capistrano Beyond Deployment Version 1.2 Hot off the press: Restricting scope...

Rails Conf Europe Notes: Localizing Rails

over 5 years ago by Christian on xml-blog.
Why Localize? 64% of online users do not speak English Lexicon Internationalization: i18N Handling and processing international text correctly Localization...

RailsConf Europe Notes: Database Engineering and Rails

over 5 years ago by Christian on xml-blog.
Are Rails databases well-engineered? Is it OK if they aren’t? Is there more to it than just giving up? Lessons from REST and CRUD REST Re-using...

Dir.glob("**") is Evil (aka. rubyforge 0.2.1 released)

over 5 years ago by Ryan Davis on Polishing Ruby.
I've said this before but I was lax in enforcing it for rubyforge 0.2.0: ALWAYS deploy from a manifest file! Specifically Dir.glob with ** is evil. Even...

RadRails 0.7.1 Released

over 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
The latest version of RadRails, the Ruby on Rails IDE, 0.7.1, has been released for Windows, OS X and Linux. Some fixes to the reliability of starting and...

Frontcamp News

over 5 years ago by Yurii Rashkovskii on Yurii Rashkovskii's Blog.
Here are you some updates. We’ve almost finalized developing an easy-to-learn template language. Publishing with Frontcamp should be really...

Notre Dame Forum 2006

over 5 years ago by John Nunemaker on Addicted To New.
Here’s a little tip if you want to see some serious web 2.0 action for a good cause (I hate myself for saying web 2.0): Today, at 1:15PM, the Notre...

Rails Conf Notes: Reusing RJS

over 5 years ago by Christian on xml-blog.
What is RJS? Instead of .rthml, .rjs views let you manipulate the dom / client side elements + visual effects with simple syntax Example: def update...