Blog Posts

Keeping Subscription dates tidy during February and Leap years

Crafted 17 days ago ::~ 0 Comments

This will be a quick one.

If a client of yours signed up for your service on jan 30th, and you bill monthly, there are a couple ways you can handle the dreaded ‘end of February’ problem you coul…

Testing ActiveResource - Basic Tutorial

Crafted 3 months ago ::~ 0 Comments

Note: This post may be the first post ever to NOT use an @matz example in it, when demonstrating how to use httpmock in your Test Unit tests.

ActiveResource Testing Basics

In order to tes…

Active Resource to Sinatra DataMapper backend

Crafted 3 months ago ::~ 1 Comment

In my rails app, I’m using Active Resource to ‘talk to’ another Sinatra app that is using Datamapper as it’s ORM. (To learn more about ActiveResource, check out the railscasts 94/95…

ArmRest and the tale of the No Schema Scheme

Crafted 5 months ago ::~ 2 Comments

I spent three weeks in March of 2010 trying to make CouchDB and Ruby do what i wanted. The idea was simple, i thought:

Have a truly schema-less app.

What I mean by the statement above, i…

Active Resource View Examples

Crafted 6 months ago ::~ 0 Comments

It appears to me, that google only knows how to display Active Resource examples that use the Console to display the good stuff.

I’ve learned a lot from reading the "Active Resource railscast 94…

Textmate Ruby 1.9.1 and rvm - the facts

Crafted 6 months ago ::~ 3 Comments

boy, I almost went to macVim because of this error. /me shudders.

Note: this solution appears to work for Mac’s that can’t run in Snow Leopard in full 64 bit mode. Here is my uname on my bo…

Easiest Postgres Install Ever - Mac Edition

Crafted 6 months ago ::~ 6 Comments

Well do I have a script for you. One of the best sources of ’nix based solutions for our Ruby & Rails world is wayneeseguin .

wayneeseguin (irc name) trolls plenty…

Two Questions to Help Decide Between RDBMS, MongoDB or CouchDB

Crafted 7 months ago ::~ 1 Comment

I am by no means an expert on the topic of Key Value Stores, or noSQL databases.

However to make the decision easier, I came up with a two question system whose answers appear to guide one to t…

Testing Rails 3 - Just the Facts

Crafted 7 months ago ::~ 1 Comment

While I’ll leave the technical jargon to those that care to write that, I’d like to share with you a simple way for you to test your own Rails 3 app.

I’m using k776’s generate_rails_app.rb "scri…

Acts_as_snook - Creating an admin panel

Crafted 7 months ago ::~ 1 Comment

Well, I’m going to try something a little different with this post. I’ll just post some code and explain one or two things that are out of the ordinary, instead of going through a full blow by blow…