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Meet Flower, the Flowdock bot
Flowdock is a team collaboration and group chat service, similar to Campfire. Flowdock is also the group chat service of choice here at the R&D dept. To make it more fun and/or usable, we made this bot. Flower, the Flowdock … Continue reading
Configuring Exception Handling in RSpec and Controller Tests
The ActionController::Rescue module in Rails defines a number of exceptions that will trigger a 404 response, namely ActionController::RoutingError, ActionController::UnknownAction, and ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound. However if you trigger one of those exceptions in a controller test (Test::Unit or Rspec) then rescue and display … Continue reading
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Rails I18n and 404/500 Error Pages
If you have a multilingual site it makes sense for your 404 and 500 error pages to be multilingual as well. Rails supports multilinguality by serving up error pages with a path like public/500.sv.html, where sv is the locale. In … Continue reading
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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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