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Replacing That Old Sofa

People like tabs because they recognize them for exactly what they are: a holdover from the days of file folders. Is this bad? No. Is this right– in the sense that the web has progressed past the days of being merely a document repository to a platform for really neat applications? Maybe not. But… it’s just comfortable. Everyone’s seen a file folder. It’s a physical object they’ve touched, they’ve used, they recognize. It makes sense.

Rails Overview With Rdoc Parser

Ever want a quick overview of a rails project you’re working on? I did and here’s what I did.

Original Author Name: 
Gabriel Horner

Irb History Itches Eliminated

Irb, ruby’s interactive shell, is awesome for interactive programming. You can write a few lines and test out that language feature you weren’t aware of. However as your testing becomes more elaborate it can become annoying to rewrite your code. So how do you retrieve old code? Your history, of course.

Original Author Name: 
Gabriel Horner

Multiple Databases on Rails

Being a tagging freak, I wanted to coalesce my database of tagged tables with typo’s nascent support of tags. Only problem: both use ‘tags’ as the tag table name.

My choices were to either:

  • change the name of my tags table and all its joining tables as well as a hefty amount of code I’ve written for those tables
  • simply extend typo to connect to two databases.

I chose the latter.

Original Author Name: 
Gabriel Horner

Lighttpd Working!

Yay! I got typo working with lighttpd and fcgi. Here’s what I did in my server environment.

Original Author Name: 
Gabriel Horner
Rock | Rails Fire

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Julio Javier Cicchelli: How do I learn and master Sinatra?

Welcome to the seventh installment on the RL blog, of a mini series – “How do I learn and master Sinatra?” – by top Rubyists using Sinatra. The interview series will provide insight and commentary from these notable Sinatra developers, with the goal of facilitating and providing answers to the questions Ruby beginners face on how to learn and master Sinatra.

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