Unobtrusive jQuery + Rails

— September 4, 2008

This murder is as good as solved.

Spoutcore + Rails, part iii

— August 4, 2008

In part i of the Sproutcore + Rails series I described how to query information from a rails server and display it within a Sproutcore application. In part ii I explained how to wire the other basic CRUD operations together.
In both posts I mentioned that the REST API employed by SproutCore wasn’t really RESTful, and [...]

Automatic input focus

— August 2, 2008

Just a tiny little thing, but o so helpful that I wish everybody would implement.

Sproutcore + Rails, part ii

— July 26, 2008

In the previous post I showed how to get sproutcore talking to Rails. In this post I’ll explain how to get all the basic CRUDs working.

Sproutcore + Rails

— July 19, 2008

I wasn’t at the WWDC, but even if I had been there, I probably would have missed this too: Sproutcore.

Hello Functor: pattern based method dispatch in ruby

— June 18, 2008

One of the more innovative initiatives going on in ruby land is the Waves project. It’s chock full of beautiful concise code. Lambdas rule highly. And now some truly functional programming aspects are added via a gem called Functor.

Rails plugin validates_as_time

— May 19, 2008

A rails plugin to allow entering date time values via a text field. It uses Chronic so it can handle input like for example: 1 week from now

Recording rails exceptions

— May 7, 2008

How to record exceptions on a production site for analysis purposes.