I have moved here.
J.K.
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I Have Moved
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This tutorial was built and tested using rails version 2.0.2. Features covered include activation, changing passwords, forgotten passwords, enable/disable users, roles and OpenID.
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“If you look at the final episode really carefully, it’s all there.”* These are David Chase’s words regarding the finale of the Sopranos. He is right, it is “all there”. This is the definitive explanation of why Tony died in Holsten’s in the
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A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in “fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity”.
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The following metrics measure the complexity of executable code within procedures. This includes both the internal complexity of a single procedure and the complexity of the data flow in and out of a procedure.
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This is Part One of an ongoing series to get us all comfortable using Ruby in the harshest of conditions.
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What follows are the guidelines I use to manage Ruby require statements.
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RSpec is a Behaviour Driven Development framework for Ruby. It provides two frameworks for writing and executing examples of how your Ruby application should behave:
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You can calibrate your iBook, PowerBook, MacBook or MacBook Pro computer’s lithium ion battery for best performance.
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A Grammar, G, is a structure where N is a set of non-terminals, T is a set of terminals, P is a set of productions, and S is a special non-terminal called the start symbol of the grammar. Grammars are used to formally specify the syntax of a lan
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Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings.
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High-quality WordPress themes always come in handy. Whether you are looking for some design inspiration or professional coding solutions
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Only a portion of a program’s processing can be run entirely in parallel, and only that portion can scale directly on machines having more and more processor cores. The rest of the program’s work is sequential.
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ActiveRDF is a library for accessing RDF data from Ruby programs. It can be used as data layer in Ruby-on-Rails, similar to ActiveRecord (which provides an O/R mapping to relational databases).
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The Rubinius project uses the Git SCM. Committers need to use git to commit their code directly to the main repository.
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Today I started coding the interface for ImageEditor v2.
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Rails Ajax Image Editor is an ajaxified application for image manipulation using Rails technologies.
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Here is simple script which is ideal to use in your Ruby on Rails application to quickly generate thumbnails of any proportions.
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Each toy features interlocking tabs for construction – eliminating the need for tape, glue or other messy adhesives.
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Has there ever been another country to which American politicians were required to pledge their uncritical, absolute loyalty the way they are, now, with Israel?
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The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world. An entire population is being brutally punished.
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I decided to move my MySQL server installation from the server I installed from MySQL.com to macports. Why? I believe MacPorts will simplify future upgrades. I’d also like to keep my LAMP installs in the same location.
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I’ll discuss the changes necessary to mount NFS filesystems onto a Mac OS X machine.
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Screenplay by David Lynch and Bob Engels
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After a post asserting that one must, as a rule, always version their database work, Scott Allen detailed an approach to making the best of versioning databases.
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I have been asked more and more these days, “How do I host a Git repository?” Usually it is assumed that some access control beyond simply read-only is involved (some users have commit rights). With access control comes issues of security, and that’s a wh
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Git differs from CVS in that every working tree contains a repository with a full copy of the project history, and no repository is inherently more important than any other.
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When looking at my own Rails code and that of the community as a whole, I often see places where certain Rails techniques could have been used, but weren’t.
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The MountainWest RubyConf took place at Salt Lake City on March the 28 and 29. Thanks to Confreaks and various sponsors, all 15 talks are already available for download on the Confreak website (the website also allows to watch them online using Flash).
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Scrum creator Jeff Sutherland guesses there are 120,000 Scrum teams holding standup meetings on any given working day. But how many are really doing Scrum?
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This guide aims to be a simple, logical tutorial showing how to develop a simple Rails messaging system with all of the trimmings with Ruby on Rails (v2.0.2). This tutorial is intended for beginner to intermediate Rails users.
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This tutorial will give you a complete understanding on Ruby on Rails.
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This works with Rails 2.0.2, and requires no special modification to controller code.
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Welcome to the community-driven Rails documentation!
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I recently moved all of my sites from a cheap shared host to a shiny new VPS at SliceHost, and couldn’t be happier.
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Open your nginx configuration file:
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Nginx is my favorite webserver as you astute reader all probably know. It’s very fast, light and rock solid in production. My only complaint was that the proxy modue was round robin only.
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RubyWorks production stack is a collection of open-source software required to host a RubyOnRails application on Linux servers.
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Eventually the website expunged Burlison’s details properly, but he had posed the highly pertinent question: if Facebook has the ability to delete accounts so easily, why doesn’t it make it available to users?
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Below you will find details of the latest information regarding your holiday. Click on the “More Info” to enquire further about the holiday you have an interest in. Please make sure to read the Terms & Conditions.
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When your Ruby On Rails Website gets famous you’re going to wish you implemented proper caching. Are you worried? Maybe just a little?
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This article is the second part of my series about Ruby on Rails Caching. If you have not yet read Part 1 you may be left clueless, so please do so.
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The Rails Way is all about teaching “best practices” in Rails application design. It is run by Jamis Buck and Michael Koziarski, both of whom are members of the Rails core team and have had extensive experience with both designing and building web applica
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Streamlined is a framework on top of Rails that allows you to quickly generate interfaces for your ActiveRecord models. It started as a way to generate Administrative backends, but has become more general purpose over time.
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In this article, authors Elliot Smith and Rob Nichols explain the setup of a new Rails application and how to integrate it with other data sources. Specifically, this article focuses on turning the abstract data structure for Intranet into a Rails applica
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In the previous article, we covered setting up a new Rails application and connecting it to a database. In this article, we take this a little further and deal with ActiveRecord, Migrations, Models, the Scaffold, and demonstrate how to complete the Databa
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The project I’m working on will be using quite a few currency values. Because the framework maps decimal columns to (imprecise) floats, the Rails book recommends storing money as integers.
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This is the first part of a multi-part tutorial. It will cover enough to get a scaffolded Rails application up and running under Rails 2.0.
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MVC is not a new syntax construct like an if statement or a data type like an array or int but more a way of looking at how to structure programs and divide the parts up in a logical and useful way.
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Goldberg is a holistic solution with security, site navigation and content management all designed to work together.
