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Textmate shortcuts
Oh my god. I finally found the shortcut I was missing for so long: Ctrl-Shift-T. It brings a list of all the methods in the class I’m currently editing. Man, I was dreaming about this feature almost...
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GoogleMap geocoding challenges
Like most of the programmers that have to deal with languages other than english, I wish we were building english-only web applications, and support only english strings. I live in Quebec and almost...
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SOLR Presentation at Montreal On Rails
I’m back from a very relaxing week in Mexico. I strongly recommend this resort: Valentin Imperial Maya in Riviera Maya. Great place, great food! Alright. Here are the show notes of my presentation...
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simply_versioned + attachment_fu + aws/s3
After adding simply_versioned support in a model that is using attachment_fu with S3 storage, I was getting this strange error the second time my versions association was used in my application:...
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Permanent 301 redirections using a Rack middleware in Rails
It’s a quarter to midnight and you are just about to deploy a new version of a web site that has a totally new hierarchy. This happens a lot when migrating a PHP site to Rails. And then you realize...
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Rails 1.2.x + Ruby 1.8.6 + Snow Leopard: the missing link
Yesterday, I migrated to Snow Leopard. After a day of file transfers, disk formatting, apps installation, password and license keys recovery, I finally was ready to install the Rails stack. It’s...
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Efficiency with Rails
Sometimes, I can’t believe the amount of work I can accomplish with Ruby on Rails. Today, I finished coding a RSS feed aggregator that generates aggregated RSS feeds for a Joomla web site (it merges...
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Let’s have fun: Rails 2.3.5 + nginx + Passenger on a G4 Cube with Tiger
Last week-end, I purchased a used PowerMac G4 Cube, an iconic product in the Mac community. I was wondering what I could do with it, given its performance limitation. I thought of using it to rip some...
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Rails 1.2.x + Ruby 1.8.6 + OS X Lion: 10 easy steps
One of my most popular blog posts is this one, where I explain how you can have an old Rails application running on Snow Leopard. Well now that Lion is out, it’s time to update and again make sure our...
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New inflectors in Rails 3.0.5 may break your ActiveRecord models
I decided to write on this in the hope it will help someone else. I lost too much time on this problem. I have a Rails application that I migrated from 3.0.3 to 3.0.9. Suddenly, all my tests were...
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