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I use Netbeans6.1 when developing in Rails. The thing I like most about it is that I can easily read the docs from a certain method in my code. I just press Ctrl + hover my mouse to that method and walla, the docs appears in my IDE. I can also do that when placing [...]

In Rails 2.1, you have a new script/dbconsole Instead of accessing your MySQL database with mysql -u <username> -p You can instead do script/dbconsole and if you database has a password, just do script/dbconsole -p All this works provided that you have the correct database.yml settings.

I need a tab navigation for some static display page. Stereotabs does the job nicely in my opinon. http://stereointeractive.com/blog/code/prototype-tabs

I was running the functional test and didn’t realize it was sending actual emails from my data fixtures. However, I did learn how to globally set the email settings so not to send the emails out during tests. If you want to use this, create a file called global_email_settings.rb (or whatever you want to name [...]

I got a little lazy (well, a lot really… ) so i decided that i didn’t want to study Rails by reading, but by watching a video with a popcorn in hand (really hard to get good popcorn these days) searching through the web for video tutorials, I came across this set of videos from [...]

Instead of writing this Profile.find(:all).collect{ |x| x.email } I could write this using Rails’ Symbol#to_proc Profile.find(:all).collect(&:email) Nice.

This morning while I was looking at some codes, I’ve found something interesting. When I login, I looked at the logs and I could see clearly the password that I’d just entered. Example Parameters: {“commit”=>”Log in”, “action”=>”create”, “controller”=>”sessions”, “password”=>”password123″, “login”=>”foobar”} I know, this looks like a trivial matter but imagine anyone having access to our [...]

Instead of writing this [sourcecode language='ruby'] Profile.find(:all).collect{ |x| x.email } [/sourcecode] I could write this using Rails’ Symbol#to_proc [sourcecode language='ruby'] Profile.find(:all).collect(&:email) [/sourcecode] Nice.

This morning while I was looking at some codes, I’ve found something interesting. When I login, I looked at the logs and I could see clearly the password that I’d just entered. Example [sourcecode language="ruby"] Parameters:{“commit”=>”Log in”, “action”=>”create”,”controller”=>”sessions”, “password”=>”password123″,”login”=>”foobar”} [/sourcecode] I know, this looks like a trivial matter but imagine anyone having access to our [...]

Git used to be, in my vocabulary, a word I use when I’m angry with someone. Now it’s a new word I use to keep my codes version controlled and backed up. Interesting how language can run circles around you If you don’t know what git is, here’s a detailed explanation on Wikipedia Here’s a [...]