Recent Posts Tagged With 'rails'

• How to parse a tweet text from Twitter using Ruby to parse-out ‘@’ and ‘#’

  Posted on Thursday March 5th, 2009 at 03:38 in tips, ruby, hacks, howto, rails, twitter, regex

  Well lot of us love @twitter and also Ruby, and some time work on both And often we need to do the folowing with a tweet Well I had to do the following quite often:- Take out the ‘@’ (i.e. @replies )and ‘#’ (i.e. hashtags ...

• A very hip & cool parenting site called lil’grams which is built on RubyOnRails!

  Posted on Tuesday March 3rd, 2009 at 10:32 in parenting, cool, website, rails, Projects, rubyonrails, lilgrams

  Just wanted to do a very quick post on this very new hip & cool site on parenting - lil’grams And do you know what, its has been made in RubyOnRails! Do check out this site. It the brain child of Greg Narain who is a well know serial e...

• Using ERB as a dynamic template to create a file whose contents are dynamic

  Posted on Tuesday February 17th, 2009 at 04:23 in programming, tips, ruby, hacks, howto, rails, rubyonrails, pastie

  The following code will create a temporary file for say attaching a vcard file to email.The following code is dynamic to use ERB as a template to create the file dynamically every time with the variable “telephone”,”location”,...

• Model name in RubyOnRails should ALWAYS be singular!!!

  Posted on Tuesday December 23rd, 2008 at 08:57 in tips, conventions, rails, model, newbie, activerecord

  Model names in RubyOnRails should be Singular. This will create Table name as corresponding Plural names. You have got to remember that about model naming conventions in rails. .  I know this is a very basic concept in RubyOnRails but sometimes ...

• I am Back!!! and so many interesting changes to Rails…

  Posted on Tuesday December 23rd, 2008 at 08:44 in Personal, rails, screencast, rubyonrails, git, rail2.0, github, rails2.2

  Yeah I know its been long since I have been away. Well lot has happened between my last journey  through RubyOnRail’s universe from May 28,2008 to the current date. New Rails 2.0 screencast by Fabio Akita  which is unspired by the Creating...

• How to force the browser to not cache in Rails

  Posted on Tuesday April 29th, 2008 at 03:23 in rails, browser, rubyonrails, cache

  This is a quick note to self. Though,I found this excellent post by Chad while looking for something else but this post had a excellent note on browser cache also. So this post is mostly a re-post from Chad’s. So here it goes: To ensure that th...

• How to Install Ruby, Rails 2.x, MySQL, SVN, then setup Rails 2.x Application, Configure the database, Run the Rake Tasks, Install plugins and, finally run RSpec for Models on your Local Windows System

  Posted on Friday April 25th, 2008 at 07:39 in MySQL, ruby, rails, Rake, deployment, svn, setup, rubyonrails, rspec, tortoisesvn, rail2.0

  A.) How to setup a Rails 2.x Application on your local system:– [NOTE: The following steps are for Windows OS environment] Setup Ruby and Rails on the local system:- Install Ruby on Windows: The easiest way is using the One-Click-I...

• How to use “position:relative” in CSS

  Posted on Wednesday April 23rd, 2008 at 08:04 in html, css, rails, rubyonrails

  First the definition of CSS position Property: “The position property places an element in a static, relative, absolute or fixed position.” “We can also say that the CSS positioning properties allow you to specify the left, right, t...

• Rails core has moved to GitHub

  Posted on Friday April 18th, 2008 at 04:14 in rails, edge, repository, git, github

  Ya, Ruby on Rails core is now hosted at GitHub, which is uses Git for easy, fast, efficient, distributed version control system and also which looks pretty!!! In DHH own words, GitHub has now officially launched and Rails is right there at the premie...

• How to freeze Rails application

  Posted on Friday April 18th, 2008 at 03:55 in rails, edge, deployment, rubyonrails, rail2.0

  Rails is a moving target. Its core is constantly changing. So sometimes it is advisable to “freeze” your rails application so that even if you upgrade and install the latest new version of Rails, it does not break anything in your applica...

• How to determine whether a request was Ajax or not?

  Posted on Friday April 18th, 2008 at 03:45 in programming, Ajax, rails, rubyonrails

  This is something I wanted to remind self also: Never do the following: if request.xhr? render(:update) { |page| … } else redirect_to(…) end And instead do the following: respond_to do |format| format.html { redirect_t...

• What does “ruby script/about” command do?

  Posted on Thursday April 17th, 2008 at 05:57 in ruby, scripting, rails, rubyonrails

  Well this is more of a note to self. You can tell what version of Rails your application uses with this command under your rails application folder: ruby script/about...

• Steps to Restart a Server on a Linux (ubuntu) Box for Rails, Mongrel and Merb stack

  Posted on Tuesday April 15th, 2008 at 07:28 in ubuntu, rails, server, deployment, rubyonrails, merb

  Actually the title should read as “Restarting Rails, Merb (a file upload framework) and Mongrel (a lightweight Web Server) Cluster” Well this is also more of a reminder to self. So here goes the steps as follows: Step 1: First connect to ...

• :disable_with does not work with Merb

  Posted on Thursday February 14th, 2008 at 08:14 in javascript, rails, rubyonrails, merb, fileupload

  Beside the known problem of :disable_with killing form_remote_tag AJAXiness, I recently faced another one - namely that it seem :disable_with for Submit_tag does not play well with Merb . In the current project I am working, we decided to use Merb fo...