Lone Star Ruby Conference 2007 on Pownce

Published on 07 September 2007 by in Conferences, Ruby

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If you want to follow my notes from the Lone Star Ruby Conference 2007, you can subscribe to my Pownce page. For those at the conference, I’m seated against the wall stage left, near the middle set of double doors. Feel free to stop and chat! [tags]LSRC2007, Lone Star Ruby Conference 2007[/tags]

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Attending the Lone Star Ruby Conference 2007

Published on 05 September 2007 by in Conferences, Ruby

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I’ll be at the Lone Star Ruby Conference on Fri Sept 7th and Sat Sept 8th, so if you will be there, drop me a comment or note and let me know so that we can meet up. [tags]Lone Star Ruby Conference, LSRC[/tags]

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This week, I’m dreaming of a nice application mailer that integrates with Ruby on Rails. Specifically, I want something like Campaign Monitor, but without the metered costs so that I can be a little more free to send emails to my users. Most of the applications I have built recently require that I send emails [...]

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Using acts_as_paranoid in your Rails app

Published on 18 July 2007 by in Ruby

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acts_as_paranoid (“AAP”) is a Ruby on Rails plugin that does not delete the row when destroy() is called. Rather, it sets a deleted_at field to a non-null value. The find() method is modified to skip any deleted records, thus making it easy to find only those rows that are considered active. You can locate previously [...]

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I read an interesting thread on The Business of Software about switching from C# to Ruby on Rails. Here are some of my favorites: I tried Rails before and it felt like php (editing in Notepad and using command-line tools). When Rails comes up with an IDE like Visual Studio + Intellisense, I’ll consider it. [...]

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I couldn’t have said it better…

Published on 22 May 2007 by in Java, Ruby

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Link: Ruby on Rails commercial (1 of 4) [tags]Ruby on Rails commercial, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Java[/tags]

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If you need to render ERB markup that is stored in a database or a string, I discovered an easy way (though finding it was a little harder). I found a tip via a Robby On Rails blog post, which led me to the ticket he opened with a patch and a comment from the [...]

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Problems with rubygems 0.9.3

Published on 13 May 2007 by in Ruby

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After about 2 years of using Rails, I realized that I haven’t updated my rubygems installation since I first started. I started to upgrade by downloading rubygems 0.9.3 and running the setup.rb and I encountered the following error: hook C:/downloads/rubygems-0.9.3/rubygems-0.9.3/./post-install.rb failed: install directory # not absolute Since I work on Windows, the various forum posts [...]

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More Soap4r Fun

Published on 02 May 2007 by in Ruby

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In the continuing saga of making soap4r work under Rails, I’ve found another issue that needs to be noted. Under some operating systems, the following exception was being raised: soap4r-1.5.5.20061022/lib/xsd/xmlparser/parser.rb:33:in `create_parser’: You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it! (NoMethodError) If you see this error, there is a Google Groups discussion that documents [...]

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Soap4r and Rails

Published on 18 April 2007 by in Ruby

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I recently wrapped up a short project bridging a Rails application to the Lyris ListManager API. One of things I had to do was use soap4r to support client calls over SOAP to the ListManager services. I the midst of the development, I encountered the following problem: NameError: uninitialized constant SOAP::Mapping::EncodedRegistry While I found some [...]

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