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About scaffolding

almost 4 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
For everyone who ever wondered why their patch adding a form partial to the scaffolding in Rails didn’t get accepted, here’s my take on it....

Do or do not…

almost 4 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
Chris came up with this excellent little snippet, try, as seen on Ruby Inside. That inspired me to a create a similarly sugary method for an idiom I use...

A quick testing tip

almost 4 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
Generally, when you run your tests in a Rails app you get something like this: Started .................E...................   1) Error: test_editors_for_returns_none_f...

The evil, unnecessary has_and_belongs_to_many

almost 4 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
Just a quick couple of reasons why you should not use HABTM: It’s too magical. The join table is hidden, and with the emphasis on has_many :through the...

Testing iPhone web applications

almost 4 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
One of the ongoing frustrations with web application development for the iPhone is testing - until last week, you were either forced to use an actual iPhone...

Javascript database

almost 4 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
This is cool… TaffyDB is an in-browser javascript database. This could be really useful for doing changes to a dataset without moving page to page, and...

The rumors of iUI’s demise

almost 4 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
With the release of the iPhone SDK last week, there’s been some speculation that the end of iPhone web application development (and of the usefulness...

Integrating Scribd with your Rails application

almost 4 years ago by Ben on BenCurtis.com.
I recently integrated the Scribd API with my resume management application, Catch the Best, so I thought I’d share a few details here about how I did...

The dreaded :false

almost 4 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
If you use the restful_authentication plugin, you’ve probably run up against :false. If not, let me explain: Restful_authentication provides a method...

Still no baby

almost 4 years ago by Ben on culann.com.
So our daughter’s due date was last Saturday, but she’s been somewhat reticent to join us in the outside world. We’re expecting her at any point in...