Category Archives: Rails

RoR plugin woes

Posted on August 1, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

I’m been doing a lot of work with RoR plugins trying to make things generic. The RoR plugin mechanism is just plain horrible. Plugins do not work like most ruby classes because they are loaded in a slightly convoluted way … Continue reading →

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Ruby Locale 0.1

Posted on July 28, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

I wanted a ruby version of the Java Locale object and couldn’t find one, so i created a project for it. Here’s the address: http://rubyforge.org/projects/locale/ It is pretty minimal, but it does contain all the current ISO country and language … Continue reading →

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Configuration vs. convention

Posted on July 6, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

My buddy Dave Thomas has an interesting blog entry concerning convention vs. configuration. I’ve given it a considerable amount of thought today because it is something that hits you square in the face when switching between frameworks and languages (i.e. … Continue reading →

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New Inversoft Product

Posted on July 6, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

I’ve finished launching my latest Inversoft product – The Inversoft Bad Word Database. The website is written entirely in Ruby on Rails and uses PayPal for purchases. All and all the coding was extremely straight forward and simple. Here’s the … Continue reading →

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Rails with FCGID and puts

Posted on July 5, 2006 by Brian Pontarelli

Just figured out something very humerous. I’ve just launched a new website that is written in Rails and I got it working with FCGID and Apache2. Works really well. During development I made use of print, puts, p and the … Continue reading →

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