Category Archives: ruby

A Better Solution For Partial View Controllers

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Derick Bailey

A few days ago, I wrote about using the Cells gem to create an encapsulated segment of my app, with view and controller, etc. Well, this didn’t work out so well after all. Aside form the initial problem of `content_for` … Continue reading →

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Cleaning Up Rails Helper Methods With A Helper Class: Good Idea, Bad Idea, Or ‘Meh’?

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Derick Bailey

I found myself writing a very ugly helper method in my rails ApplicationHelper module: def render_program_dashboard(patient_program) key = patient_program.program.key content_for :css do stylesheet_link_tag “#{key}/patient_program” end dashboard_instance = nil dashboard_class_name = “#{key.to_s.classify}::ProgramDashboard” begin dashboard_class = dashboard_class_name.constantize dashboard_instance = dashboard_class.new(patient_program) rescue Rails.logger.info … Continue reading →

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Cells: Partial Controllers And Views For Rails 3

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Derick Bailey

I’ve got a sort-of meta-application that I’m building in Rails 3 for a client. The core of the application is a framework on which we build various “Programs” that a patient can participate in. On the Patient Profile screen, a … Continue reading →

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Hacking Websites with Ruby and Nokogiri

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Rod Paddock

Every once and a while we get a chance to use software for the good of others. Last week I had just that opportunity. The story begins with a website called Cinematical. Cinematical is a website dedicated to movies of … Continue reading →

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Solving Some SSH Issues For Deploying Rails Apps

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Derick Bailey

So you think “The Rails Life” is all unicorns, rainbows and glitter? Yeah. Guess again. Right now it feels more like a glitter cannon shredding a unicorn into a rainbow colored bloody pulp… Joey and I are deploying our rails … Continue reading →

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Providing Unauthenticated API Access To An Authenticated/Authorized Controller In Rails 3, With Devise And CanCan

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Derick Bailey

My current Ruby on Rails app defaults to every page and controller action in the system requiring authentication. If you’re not logged in, you don’t get to do anything other than see the login page. Once you are logged in, … Continue reading →

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Installing Ruby 1.8.6 And RubyGems On OSX (Snow Leopard) With RVM

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Derick Bailey

RubyGems no longer supports Ruby v1.8.6, so when I tried to install 1.8.6 on my Macbook, via RVM, I ran into this nice little error message: The interesting bit is that ruby itself installed. It’s only RubyGems that didn’t install … Continue reading →

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Validating Xml Against XSD Schema In IronRuby

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Derick Bailey

There’s a thousand examples of how to validate an xml document against an xsd schema in C# around the web, but I had a hard time finding one that worked in IronRuby. So I translated some of the C# examples … Continue reading →

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How To Have Bundler Load A Gem From The Vendor Folder Into A Rails 3 App

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Derick Bailey

I have a rails 3 app that needs some specific functionality that is built into a gem. Unfortunately, the current gem that is published on RubyGems.org only works with rails 2. I was able to get the gem to work … Continue reading →

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Responding To Growl Notification Clicks With MacRuby

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Derick Bailey

In my last post, I detailed the process of setting up a MacRuby app to send Growl notifications. To get even more mileage out of Growl, though, it’s a good idea to response to various interactions with the notifications that … Continue reading →

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