4 Ruby & Rails Entries
- 03-05-2009 SafariWatir Nuisances The place where I work (RideCharge) is a Rails shop. As such, we’ve embraced numerous Ruby technologies, including several ActiveRecord plugins, test frameworks, and other components used at various points in the stack. I deal with a lot of view-side and presentational stuff, including having embraced Sass for stylesheets (I even use them in some [...]
- 09-04-2008 Thoughts on ThyncRecord This is a reposting of an email I sent Frank Lee, who I’ve tapped to help out in building optimized queries for ThyncRecord. Just figured I’d share. “Because of [JavaScript's prototype-based inheritance vs normal OOP], there is no proper concept of class methods and instance methods. (I don’t believe moo has implemented such a feature [...]
- 10-03-2007 Hooyip Choices, Poppy’s Passing So we’ve got the basic schema and business logic behind validation of and connection between models in Hooyip. After a few more minor details we’ll be ready to build the front-end in earnest. Those choices are basically regarding ID3 handling and file uploads. Aside from picking from the numerous .swf-based JavaScript uploader widgets (see here, [...]
- 07-30-2007 Nutech, ad nauseum Well, I’ve been playing with Rails a bit more at work now, building a project tracker system for internal use. It’s been a great learning experience, however little time I’ve had to spend on it, and I believe my relational mapping skills have come around on it. I’ve learned how important it is to plan [...]