Archive for the 'ruby on rails' Category

Ahh!*(@#& SQL and Rails..

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

So. The issue:
I couldn’t get the radio_button or check_box tags to work with rails. They kept telling me:

wrong number of arguments (0 for 1)

Which didn’t make any sense since I was supplying arguments correctly. I eventually tried making a radio_button in a different view and it worked fine. I found out [...]

Static pages and content in Ruby on Rails

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

one of the most amazing frameworks for dynamic content.. and what’s my problem? i cant figure out where the hell the best place is to place static content.
my first thought was “sure i could just dump a file in /app/views”. seems like a reasonable solution.. but of course rails won’t route that correctly.
so [...]

MySQL Query Browser Alternatives

Friday, February 24th, 2006

I’ve been messing around with MySQL Query Browser.. Quite honestly it’s a piece of shit. Actually kinda surprises me that MySQL even came up with the damn thing. I haven’t been too impressed with MySQL/InnoDB lately either.. but.. yeah.. anyway. So I’ve been having problems with it and doing foreign key stuff [...]

jEdit Tutorial: A How-To on Abbreviations in Superabbrevs for HTML, Ruby on Rails and more

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

Who is this tutorial for?

jEdit lovers who have yet to discover the power of abbreviations and the SuperAbbervs plugin.
Those new to jEdit who want to give it some killer functionality
People looking for documentation or a manual on how the hell to use Abbreviations and SuperAbbrevs
Those looking for yet another reason to switch to jEdit, one [...]

Plotting points, graphing and charts in Ruby (on Rails)

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Sooo.. programming has been going well lately. I’ve solved some very.. interesting problems with some things.
I have to map points out on a graph.. At first this seemed really simple. I went out and searched for a bunch of programs and definitely found a bunch. The one basic requirement was that [...]

Best IDE/Editor for Ruby on Rails?

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

This article was written in 2006. Please see the notes and comments for more up-to-date information about available IDES. All that are listed here are still viable, but there is new information below.
Getting settled in with a good editor for RoR is hard.. especially if you’re new to the game. I use [...]


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