Category Archives: Ruby

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →