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Things I love the bestest about Rails 2.1

over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
These are the features I am most pleased with. Thanks to Carlos Brando, who created an excellent free PDF. Hey my name is in there too! [return-path bug...

Installing RMagick on OS X

over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
It is what Muad’dib said: “fear is the mind-killer” (full quote below). Oh I feared installing RMagick on OS X. The fear nearly paralyzed me (well...

Rails 2 and RSS parsing gives weird errors

over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Finally! After many weeks I managed to track down a very strange bug. When parsing RSS feeds using Ruby’s built-in RSS::Parser, sometimes I would get...

Vulnerabilities in Ruby

over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Oops! There are some nasty vulnerabilities in Ruby. I guess Zed was right after all. It seems there’s more wrong than even he has led on though. Unfortunately...

Faster erb templates

over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
You can have them too! Even without fancy schmancy haml (which is nice, I admit). Just wait for Rails 2.2 or install edge right now. Massive speed improvements...

jQuery here I come

over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
I have been meaning to switch to jQuery for a while now: phatter effects, cleaner syntax and more lightweight, what more could a boy want? Well, my built-in...

Globalize for Rails 2.1

over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Apparently there is now a Globalize branch on github for Rails 2.1. Awesome!...

Installing Postgres on Mac OS X Leopard

over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Countless tutorials have been written about installing PostgreSQL on Mac OS X Leopard, so I am not going to go in detail. Your best bet is to either build...

NuPlay ultitouch experiment

over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
Daniël has done an awesome mod in the nuPlay environment: he’s built his very own multitouch table.  ...

Coffee geek

over 3 years ago by joost on Space Babies.
I’ve officially become a filthy coffee geek today after purchasing a Magister Stella espresso maker. My days of puny consumer-level drip drab coffee are...