We all like the "Fat models, skinny controllers"-rule, but what to do if your models are becoming too fat? Split them up into smaller chunks, exactly. Of course this technique works for other classes, too. The first thing to do, is to check whether the module you're…
Forget what you read here before, and just do the following: curl -O http://files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/ruby-debug19/linecache19-0.5.13.gem curl -O http://files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/ruby-debug19/ruby-debug-base19-0.11.26.gem gem install {linecache19-0.5.13.gem,ruby-debug-base19-0.11.26.gem} \ --…
I know it’s been a month now, but here are the Slides of our (that’s Mark Schmidt and me) Talk about Redis at the Rails Usergroup Hamburg. In the worldcup prediction game section, I added the numbers for MySQL with and index, and those numbers are not anywhere…
Better late than never, here are the slides of my talk at the last Rails usergroup Hamburg about heroku. \ \…
As you may know, I sincerely enjoy developing stuff for the web. But I also enjoy using native applications on my iPhone, so learning iPhone development has been on my todo list for a long time. Today, I stroke the item off the list, without having learnt anything about it.…
I know NoSQL is upon us, but some of you might still be stuck with MySQL for the time being. Saying that, the mysql gem is not the best way to talk to your database using Ruby 1.9, at least if you are expecting UTF-8 characters to “just work”…
You may have heard that my 1st gen iPhone broke only recently. This is why I got an iPhone 3GS today, but not without an ache in my stomach. That is not only because of the big heap of money I needed to hand over to get an unlocked phone.…
We know that Java must be pretty good, because it is the cool, new programming language. Or is it? If you look at the world of programming languages from a distance, it looks like Java is the latest thing. (From far enough away, all you can see is the large,…
The recent release of Rails 2.3.5 has fixed some Ruby 1.9 related bugs - which is nice. So I thought this is the right time to try porting an existing Rails 2.3 app to Ruby 1.9. Again, I was out of luck. The encoding problems…
There’s so much exciting stuff coming up in Rails 3. How about giving it a test drive today? Dr Nic has done it before, but his post is a little outdated, so I will give you an update here. The prerequisites First, make sure you are running a recent…