March 25, 2008

Neato Tools

I have not posted in more than a month. It has been quite a trying month. I have been married, supervised the birth of my 3 children, build a homeless...

February 16, 2008

Storing Passwords the Un-Giles-Like Way

Giles Bowkett wrote an entry in his blog today, introducing his Ruby gem ‘password’. (The article is sudo gem install password.) As you may have guessed, the gem allows you...

February 07, 2008

Disabling Timestamps by Model in Rails 1.2

I recently had a need to disable the timestamp for ‘updated_at’ for one particular little update to a table. At work, we are stuck on Rails 1.2.x for the time...

February 05, 2008

Simple Sparklines in Merb

Basic reporting with Sparklines in Ruby web application frameworks is pretty simple. It is especially simple if you are using Ruby on Rails, and the available Sparklines plugin. For some,...

January 24, 2008

LinkFest - Thin

Many of you have likely heard of (and use) Mongrel, the HTTP library and server for Ruby. However, you may not have heard of the new kid on the block,...