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Posts from September 2006

Launching Feels Good

It feels good to launch these new forums for Seeking Alpha. Its a modified Beast installation, with a bunch of hackery going on so it understands our old user system. Beast is a really great Rails forum, with a clean look and nice use of ajax done in under 500 lines of code […]


A Sad Day to be American

So very sad.
( sigh )


Five Ruby Blogs to Feed Your Head (and Soul)

I subscribe to far too many feeds. I never catch up, and recently somehow blew away my entire “non-ruby programming blogs” folder in NetNewsWire, and didn’t really notice (or care).
That said, I think its important to keep up with the Ruby “blogs”, as kids call them these days, if only because things […]


Adding your Lib Tests and Plugin Tests to Autotest

My work lately has involved managing a lot of common code across three different Rails projects, some of it managed by svn:externals in /lib and some in plugins. So since I've been using ZenTest's autotest (which is very nice with the growl and redgreen plugins in 3.4), naturally I want the lib and vendor/plugin [...]


Seeking Alpha now carried by Yahoo! Finance

Today was a great day for Seeking Alpha (ie my employer). Our content is now carried by Yahoo Finance (details here). Kudos go to Dion and Jim moreso then me. I've been working on Rails-ication of the back end, and also integration of some other Ruby pieces, so I haven't really done [...]


Accessing Rails Configuration and database.yml Programatically

I changed our database.yml to use merge keys, but we have a case where the host is different for production from all the other environments. I wanted to test and ensure the prod db host remained correct with the yaml merge - the docs say it works like hash#merge, but you don't wanna mess [...]


Deprecation in Rails, and What You Can Do About It

Now that the sound and fury over Kevin's post on the old and busted in Rails is calming down, we do have some nice constructive resources. One is Geoffrey's Deprecated Plugin which greps your code for things like @params or render_partial. Very nice, and he's going to rewrite it so its not dependant [...]