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Hosting a Spree webshop on Heroku

over 2 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
Spree is the webshop solution for Ruby on Rails, and Heroku is the place to host your Rails-applications – especially if you like free hosting :) Finding...

Get a copy of all outgoing ActionMailer emails

over 2 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
People care about emails. They don’t like to be bothered with emails they find unimportant, especially not if they are sent by mistake, have the wrong...

Introducing darebusters.com

~2 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
Most of us enjoy getting a link to something entertaining once in a while. In the early days of the World Wide Web, we send each other funny pictures via...

Happy New Year

~2 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
Enjoy the new decade – take care of our world....

Multiple Ruby versions with RVM

~2 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
Rails 3 is just around the corner. It is optimized for the better performance and superior features of Ruby 1.9, but it also plays nicely with version 1...

Community Day ‘10 is coming up

almost 2 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
I did a well-received talk on ActiveRecord at last year’s Community Day. Community Day ‘09 was the first of its kind in Copenhagen, and it was quite...

Curiosities of HTML5

almost 2 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
Molly Holzschlag talked about HTML5 (yes, apparently the convention is no space between HTML and 5) at the MIX 10 conference. I didn’t get any ground-breaking...

The culture of development communities: Ruby vs. .NET

almost 2 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
I have worked professionally with Ruby on Rails for the past 4 years and definitely consider myself as a part of the Ruby community. Before that, however...

Bundler and Rails 3 environments

almost 2 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
I usually write very long blog posts. Not this time! This is just small tip, the first of probably many learnings I’ll make as I create my first project...

IronRuby on Rails

over 1 year ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
Rails, say hello to .NET. IronRuby went 1.0 at April 12th, and it runs Ruby on Rails for real. I demonstrated it myself to a packed room of (mostly) .NET...