Category Archives: Rails

A smarter Rails url_for helper

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Joshua Flanagan

Problem In my Rails application, I want to be able to determine a URL for any given model, without the calling code having to know the type of the model. Instead of calling post_path(@post) or comment_path(@comment), I want to just … Continue reading →

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EmberJS: Initial Impressions (Compared To Backbone)

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Derick Bailey

Hey! This article references a pre-release version of Ember.js. Now that Ember.js has reached a 1.0 API the code samples below are no longer correct and the expressed opinions may no longer be accurate. Just keep that in mind when … Continue reading →

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Composition Of Responsibility vs Interface Implementation

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Derick Bailey

This started out a comment in a Google+ stream, which is in response to the brujahahahahalols that have been going around concerning ActiveRecord, FubuMVC and Rails. I’m not defending any of these posts or perspectives. I have my own opinions … Continue reading →

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Adding A ‘has_image?’ Matcher To Capybara

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Derick Bailey

I’m rather shocked that Capybara doesn’t have a ‘has_image?’ matcher built in to it. But after search around google for a while, the only thing I found was a bunch of StackOverflow answers that all say to use ‘has_xpath?’ to … Continue reading →

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Rail 3.1 CI setup with Jenkins, Test Unit & SimpleCov on OS X Lion.

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Ryan Svihla

I recently had to setup a build server for some rails work I’m doing. Still wanting to support my other projects I setup Jenkins. I ran into several issues. Running Jenkins as a hidden user First I noticed that jenkins … Continue reading →

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A Visual History Of The Usefulness Of Ruby On Rails

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Derick Bailey

Everyone seems to know about the benefit of MVC frameworks in web development these days. It’s no secret that there is a lot of power in this stuff, and it’s largely due to the popularity of Ruby on Rails that … Continue reading →

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Endemic simplicity

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

I was setting up a new website for AutoMapper the other day, and needed to get both a domain name and integration into Heroku, where my site is hosted (for free, by the way). When you host your site with … Continue reading →

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Rendering A Rails Partial As A jQuery Template

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Derick Bailey

A question was asked on twitter: Here’s one of the answers that I sent to rob, in the form of a gist: I’m using this solution in my current rails app and it’s a very elegant way to use an … Continue reading →

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Making Mongoid Play Nice With Backbone.js

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Derick Bailey

Backbone has some great features that make it dirt-simple to integrate with a Rails back end. For example, the Backbone models have a .fetch(), .save() and .destroy() method on them. These methods make a call back to your server, based … Continue reading →

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Partially Solving The Date Validation Deficiency Of Rails 3 And Mongoid 2 Models

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Derick Bailey

A while back, I posted a question on stack overflow on how to properly validate a date input from a text field input, without throwing exceptions when the string provided is not a valid date.  The core of the problem … Continue reading →

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