Rails Articles

• Typo theme contest entry

  Well, what can I say. I managed to submit my theme just in time (in it’s...

  November 29, 2005

  • Rails
  • Theme
  • Typo

• Lucid theme gets a polish… ish..

  h3. A few amends to the lucid theme: I’ve added a little colour schem...

  December 07, 2005

  • Rails
  • Theme
  • Typo

• Code beauty vs. Obsession

  h3. When does the search for beautiful code become an obsession? Rightly...

  March 23, 2006

  • Rails

• No longer a Rails patch virgin…

  I have submitted my first Rails patch. It allows you to specify a :separ...

  April 05, 2006

  • Rails

• Finally running on the latest Typo (4.0)

  I’ve been putting off upgrading Typo for a while now (due to lack of tim...

  July 23, 2006

  • Rails
  • Theme
  • Typo

• Simply RESTful… "The missing action"

  UPDATE 15/03/10: The debate continues…

  July 26, 2006

  • Javascript
  • REST
  • Rails
  • Ruby

• Handy Subversion Rake task

  Just read a post from “David”:http://david.planetargon.us at “Planet Arg...

  July 29, 2006

  • Rails
  • Rake
  • Subversion

• Problem: link_to_remote with :method => :delete in Safari

  I have just come up against a really frustrating issue with link_to_remo...

  July 30, 2006

  • Ajax
  • Rails
  • Simply RESTful

• TheLucid Typo theme (Phase 2)

  I have had a great deal of interest in TheLucid Typo theme over the past...

  August 22, 2006

  • Lucid theme
  • Rails
  • Typo

• Disabling plugin code in generators/migrations

  I have found on numerous occasions that I need to disable certain plugin...

  September 21, 2006

  • Plugin
  • Rails
  • Rake

• CSS and JS directories in Rails

  One thing that annoyed me when I first started using Rails at 0.14 was t...

  September 28, 2006

  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • Rails

• Maintaining database column order with migrations

  If you’re anything like me, you like to keep database columns in a reaso...

  September 30, 2006

  • Migrations
  • Rails

• New web-based GTD productivity application

  Finally I can mention it. At SonicIQ we’ve been working on a web-based “...

  November 21, 2006

  • GTD
  • General
  • Productivity
  • Rails
  • SonicIQ

• Ruby on Rails Exchange, London

  Last Friday, a couple of us from “SonicIQ”:http://www.soniciq.com went t...

  February 17, 2007

  • Conference
  • General
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • SonicIQ

• Building Ruby, Rails, Subversion, Mongrel, and MySQL on Mac OS X Tiger – The Easy Way

  “Dan Benjamin”:http://hivelogic.com/authors/danbenjamin recently updated...

  March 01, 2007

  • General
  • OSX
  • Rails
  • Ruby

• SonicIQ are hiring – Junior Rails Developer Wanted in UK

  “SonicIQ”:http://www.soniciq.com are looking for a “Junior Ruby on Rails...

  March 08, 2007

  • General
  • Mac / OS X
  • Rails
  • SonicIQ
  • Subversion

• Rails Edge: View file extention functionality has changed

  It seems that on edge revision 6502 and later, the way that view file ex...

  May 16, 2007

  • Ajax
  • RJS
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Views

• Rails Edge: Getting your view extensions ready for edge

  Following my previous post, below is a modified version of “John Nunemak...

  May 16, 2007

  • Ajax
  • ERB
  • RJS
  • Rails
  • Rake
  • Ruby
  • Views

• TheLucid Typo theme now works with version 4.1

  TheLucid Typo theme finally works with version 4.1 of Typo. Please bear ...

  July 24, 2007

  • Rails
  • Theme
  • Typo

• Autotest Growl Fail/Pass Smilies

  John Nunemaker posted a handy tip on “setting up autotest to work with G...

  July 30, 2007

  • Autotest
  • OSX
  • RSpec
  • Rails
  • Rake
  • Ruby
  • Testing

• Typo 4.1 slow comment posting

  Is anyone else having problems with Typo 4.1 taking ages to process new ...

  August 17, 2007

  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Typo

• Using Rcov to measure the test coverage of Rails plugins

  To view the coverage of your plugins using Rcov, first install the rcov ...

  August 24, 2007

  • Coverage
  • Plugin
  • Rails
  • Rake
  • Ruby
  • Testing

• SonicIQ Hiring! – UK, Ruby on Rails Developer Required

  We are looking for a Ruby on Rails, XHTML & CSS Developer to join ou...

  August 27, 2007

  • CSS
  • Rails
  • Recruitment
  • Ruby
  • SonicIQ

• Rails: Using Autotest with UnitRecord

  Myself and a colleague have just managed to waste away a good couple of ...

  September 05, 2007

  • Autotest
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Testing

• Unit testing by simplifying the problem: memoization

  I see unit testing as a way to test each possible snippet of functionali...

  December 18, 2008

  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Testing

• Sexy Validations in Rails 3.0

  Update: This patch has been applied but this information is out of date,...

  August 15, 2009

  • Rails
  • Ruby

• Sexy Validation in Edge Rails (Rails 3)

  I have just had my sexy validations patch accepted into Rails. Much than...

  January 08, 2010

  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Sexy Validations
  • SonicIQ

• Devise Rails Authentication Gem Rocks!

  I’ve had a set of rather bespoke requirements for authentication on a re...

  February 06, 2010

  • Authentication
  • General
  • Rails
  • Ruby

• Why I stopped using Pickle with Cucumber

  …no, not because it leaves a bitter aftertaste, I’m talking about the Pi...

  February 07, 2010

  • Cucumber
  • Pickle
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Testing

• Nokogiri for Cucumber steps that need to compare HTML attributes

  I have found on numerous occasions that I need to look at HTML attribute...

  February 14, 2010

  • Cucumber
  • Nokogiri
  • Rails
  • Ruby

• "Ramble", the Javascript Cucumber Port (work in progress)

  I am a great fan of Cucumber when it comes to integration testing, howev...

  July 04, 2010

  • Ajax
  • Cucumber
  • Javascript
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • jQuery

• Using Artifice to Stub Server Responses

  In a recent project I needed a way to fake a response from a server in m...

  January 04, 2011

  • Artifice
  • Cucumber
  • Mocks
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Stubbing
  • Testing

• Ruby Causing MacBook Pro to Run Hot

  The past couple of days the fan on my MacBook Pro has been constantly on...

  January 06, 2011

  • Mac
  • OSX
  • Rails
  • Ruby

• Fixing {{model}} placeholders in Rails 2.3 when Rails 3 is installed

  This was causing me all kinds of grief. I am running Rails 2.3 and Rails...

  January 14, 2011

  • Bug
  • Internationalization
  • Rack
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • SonicIQ

• Using Pow when developing Rails applications on OSX

  I heard about Pow a while ago which is “a zero-config Rack server for Ma...

  January 01, 2012

  • OSX
  • OSX
  • Pow
  • Rack
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Server

• Loving MongoDB but Missing Transactions

  I’ve been venturing into the world of MongoDB via Mongoid in a Rails app...

  January 26, 2012

  • Database
  • Database
  • MongoDB
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Schema
  • Transactions

• Using both Pow and Apache on OSX Lion

  I have written previously about using Pow for Ruby/Rails development. Po...

  March 11, 2012

  • Apache
  • Bash
  • PHP
  • Pow
  • Rails
  • Ruby

• Pow, meet rbenv

  I just ran into a problem with Pow when using rbenv for Ruby version man...

  October 11, 2012

  • Bash
  • Bundler
  • General
  • OSX
  • Rails
  • Rbenv
  • Ruby

• Handling GET remote forms with Turbolinks in Rails 6

  How to handle Ajax GET requests with Turbolinks, and render the response.

  February 20, 2019

  • ES6
  • Javascript
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • Tips
  • Turbolinks