So you’ve installed (or upgraded to) ubuntu 11.10 and everything looks great… Except – uh!, lots of gedit plugins are only compatible with gedit 2! But don’t be sad.. or angry.. This guide points out, how to, nevertheless, create a solid foundation that allows you getting prodcutive with gedit! […]
Three little tips for slimmer Rails migrations
Rails migrations are easy to understand and easy to write. However, you can save some unnecessary key strokes by applying these three tips :) […]
♥ .railsrc / rails console snippets
13 Rails-specific hints for your rails 3 console. […]
Upgrading to Rails 3: Obstacles and helper scripts
Transferring an existing project to Rails 3 is not that hard, but it usually cannot be done in 5 minutes. […]
RubyBuntu -4- Make gedit better than any IDE ;)
You can, of course, use an IDE for coding – but reconsider it: After hours of initialization, it tries to do everything for you… Somewhere in the never ending menu jungle… And you need to click all the time… Stop! Focus on the gist! You want to write code! […]
RubyBuntu -1- Installing Ruby (and Rails) on ubuntu
Installing Ruby/Rails on ubuntu is not hard, but some little obstacles might be confusing. […]
Organise your code comments with rake notes:todo!
Lots of IDEs (e.g. Netbeans) and some editors (e.g. gedit with plugins) have a nice feature: They show comments, which start with something like TODO or FIXME. Those annotations are quickly written and they make it harder to forget some things you wanted to (or have to) do.
I have just discovered that Rails has this feature already built-in!
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Rack::NoTags
This is my submission for the CodeRack contest:
A middleware that removes < and > from all incoming requests. […]
Troubleshooting an aegis-permission problem
In my current Rails project, I use the aegis gem for rights management. And I almost got mad, wondering, why it wouldn’t work.. […]
PlasmaRails.org
PlasmaRails.org is an online RDoc for Edge Rails, which is regenerated every day. It is based on sdoc with some custom css.
Update 06.06.2010: Relaunched with better stylesheets! […]
Create an offline version of the Ruby docs
When I began programming Ruby/Rails, I quickly found the online Ruby documentation at ruby-doc.org and the Rails API, which are both very useful. But unfortunately, one cannot be always online. In this blog post, I’ll demonstrate some ways to generate or get the docs offline and some hints on using them. […]