CS8

Facing another bug while integration my rails project with twitter using authlogic-oauth and was facing a problem while running my cucumber test. In my step definition file, I was trying to create a simple User object and the error I was getting was as follow: undefined method `params’ for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) Upon further investigation. The [...]

I was trying to run an Authlogic OAuth Twitter example application on my local development machine and kept getting OAuth::Unauthorized (401 Unauthorized) error. Turns out, you have to register your app as a Twitter OAuth client at http://twitter.com/oauth_clients/. If you’re registering your application as web browser, don’t forget to fill in the callback url. When [...]

Recently, I had created a rails app which allows people to login with their Facebook account. Thanks to a few existing gems and plugins, the facebook connect integration was straight forward enough. A few gotchas but easily fixed. However what had got me stump for a few hours was deploying my rails app on a [...]

It’s been nearly 2 months since we implemented Scrum + Kanban at our workplace. In the beginning, we started out strictly on Scrum but we soon found out that for 3 projects running simulteneously with limited amount of people on our team, running 3 different sprints at the same time seems like a bit of [...]

We’ve been using git for as our version control management system since the day we started, and have never looked elsewhere. It’s fast and easy to use and with github, it’s even gone social! So, for those of you who have heard of git, but don’t really know how it works, and are interested to [...]

I’ve been meaning to start using ruby1.9 but always stuck at maintaining codes in production that depends on Ruby1.8.6. Fortunately, there’s this thing called Ruby Version Manager where you easily change between different rails version. I have nothing but praise for the guys who made life easier for us programmers to do our job better [...]

Have been tinkering around with authlogic. The most I love about is its out-of-the-box functionality. I used to wrestle with restful_authentication to get certain things that I need. Not in anyway that I’m bashing it but seeing how easy authlogic I couldn’t believe why I didn’t use it sooner. I like it so much that [...]

I tried to update a HTML div elevement wrapping around a table row inside a table. <table> <tr> <td>Pomme</td> </tr> <div id="placeholder"> <tr> <td>SomethingElse</td> </tr> </div> </table> I wasted 1 hour to find out why my ajax calls aren’t updating the right table row. Apparently it’s not valid HTML. The div will always be on [...]

Getting your bug fix/code pulled into the main repo really gets you excited & satisfied. I never thought it could give me this much sense of enjoyment. Check it out. http://github.com/dmix/weekly_builder/tree/master

I’m figuring out something in my rails app.  I’m figuring out which one’s the worst: Eager loading 100 rows of data you don’t actually need at the moment or 10 queries giving 10 result set at once? Here’s the code to explain it. 1 2 3 @event = Event.find(params[:event_id])   @event_attendees = @event.attendees.paginate(:page => params[:page], [...]