Category Archives: Ruby on Rails

  • 02
  • Jul

Simplest bit.ly API implementation possible?

To use an URL shortener in your project, I would strongly recommend bit.ly. It let you set a custom URL (name) and track traffic, clicks and conversations on micro blogs. But best of all, it should be super-fast and super-stable, … Continue reading →

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  • 11
  • Jun

Rails Development Database Setup Without Migrations

I think a lot of Rails developers have been using the db:migrate Rake task to setup new development databases. The problem with this is that over time migrations tend to grow out of sync with the code, especially if you … Continue reading →

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  • 14
  • May

Rails bug fix: ActiveRecord::Base#exists? now compatible with include scopes

I was using a default scope for a model with :include and rder options and ran into an issue with the exists? method. We have now refactored the exists? method to invoke find_initial which handles scopes correctly. Thanks Michael for … Continue reading →

Posted by peter View Comments Posted in Ruby on Rails
  • 07
  • May

Rails Gotcha: Global Methods can Cause ActiveRecord Attribute Methods to Never be Defined

I just ran into a sort of edge case gotcha in the interaction between the acts_as_taggable_on Rails plugin and RSpec. It turns out both libraries define a context method. In the RSpec case it is a global method (defined in … Continue reading →

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  • 28
  • Apr

Rails Gotcha: Eager Loading Application Classes to Make STI Work

Recent versions of Rails (2.2 and later I think) will eager load all application Ruby classes when booting up the server. However, because of issues with migrations this is not done if you are executing a Rake task that depends … Continue reading →

Posted by peter View Comments Posted in Ruby on Rails
  • 28
  • Apr

New Rails Plugin to shell out with verbose error handling

I was annoyed with the fact that when you use Ruby backticks (i.e. `some_shell_command`) to shell out to an external program and the path to the program is wrong then no exception is raised. In addition, using system and backticks … Continue reading →

Posted by peter View Comments Posted in Ruby on Rails
  • 17
  • Mar

Upgrading to Rails 2.3

We just upgraded our app from Rails 2.2.2 to Rails 2.3.2 and were able to get all our tests passing after having ironed out a number of deprecations, upgraded a few plugins, and patched a few others. Here is an … Continue reading →

Posted by peter View Comments Posted in Ruby on Rails
  • 17
  • Mar

New rake task for the Tranlsate plugin: Google Translate

We just pushed the latest addition to the Translate plugin which adds a new rake task: “rake translate:google FROM=sv TO=en”. This will translate all keys in sv.yaml using Google Translate into english and store them in en.yaml. This is a … Continue reading →

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  • 06
  • Feb

Rake Tasks for the Translate Plugin

We’ve added two Rake tasks to the Translate plugin. The lost_in_translation rake task helps find I18n keys in lookups in your code that are missing from your default locale YAML file (i.e. config/locales/sv.yml in our case). The merge_keys Rake task … Continue reading →

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  • 23
  • Jan

swedish_pluralize plugin: Swedish pluralization rules for Rails

For those of you looking for Swedish pluralization for Rails, I just refactored this module of ours into a plugin. You can find it on GitHub: http://github.com/newsdesk/swedish_pluralize/tree/master It’s extracted from the old swe_rails plugin by Ola Bini, which did a … Continue reading →

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