I’ve got an idea for you. If you try this let me know how it works. We’ve all seen the pictures of team spaces. Some are open spaces with a single, long desk that everyone sits at. Others are cube...

mnmal: designeriphone: “Good design means never having to say “Click Here”.

On the eve of the first free, online “Clojure 101” course, Michael Kohl of RubyLearning caught up with Michael Fogus, author of the forthcoming book – The Joy of Clojure. In this interview, Mich...

Trying to install PostGIS and you can’t get past this error? psqlostgis.sql:57: NOTICE:  type “spheroid” is not yet defined DETAIL:  Creating a shell type definition. psqlostgis.sql:57: ERROR:...

Ruby User Groups (RUGs, for short) are typically informal organizations put together to encourage Ruby developers with certain areas to get together, share ideas, and, often, to have some fun. If you'...

I had an issue recently whereby Ack in my Textmate install would just hang with a spinner, yet still work just fine from the command line. After some digging it transpires that this is related to me i...

Pro Git - Smart HTTP Transport

LightMongo is a lightweight Mongo object persistence layer for Ruby which makes use of Mongo's features rather than trying to emulate ActiveRecord. It's an interesting alternative to the already popul...

Combinatorial testing is a difficult problem. Having to test a small number of inputs  can result in a combinatorial explosion of possible permutations. In Cucumber we see this problem in Scenario Ou...

Me han pasado un vídeo muy interesante que reflexiona la velocidad de los cambios tecnológicos y de la sociedad  en cada vez menos plazo de tiempo. Sin duda da que pensar……… Espero que os h...

Here's a cheeky gotcha to keep an eye out for when using the popular pagination plugin/gem for Ruby on Rails will_paginate I was doing something like... Foo.find(:all, :order => "bar DESC").pagin...

Dankenswerterweise ist auf dem Treffen der Ruby-Usergruppe Karlsruhe folgende Frage aufgetaucht: Wie gebe ich eigentlich das Encoding von ERB-Files an? Die werden ja zu Ruby konvertiert und dann gelad...

It is easy to be vulnerable to cross site scripting attacks in earlier versions of Rails, but Rails 3 solves this by automatically escaping unsafe input.

great article on massive cloud-based load testing http://bit.ly/9FcTa4 #soasta #cloud # Powered by Twitter Tools

I’ve just released a second beta of win32console gem. What’s new? Only two new things: STDERR is now redirected (wasn’t before) and the addition of ECHO on/off functionality thanks to Justin Lov...

Working on my new app I thought it is necessary to get some data from configuration file, there was already plugin that had the necessary functionality - acts_as_configurable. Unfortunately this plugi...

An introduction to HTML5 Web SQL Database version management and schema migrations.

I’m fiddling about with a rails3 app after reading Yehuda’s 3.0 Announcement. One of the things that he talks about is Rails’ new paranoid XSS protection scheme. I wasn’t able to find much abo...