Posted in Code on Aug 10th, 2008
I have updated my app_version Rails plugin to support getting build numbers from Git. This is of necessity a little kludgy. The plugin allows you to specify either ‘git-revcount’ or ‘git-hash’ as the build. ‘git-revcount’ will set the build number to the number of commits on the current Git branch and ‘git-hash’ will set the […]
Posted in Code on Apr 10th, 2008
I recently changed hosting providers and I am still in the process of moving everything over. One headache that I don’t need is recreating all of the Subversion repositories that I had hosted on the old service. So, I have decided to move the code for my app_version plugin to GitHub.
The plugin’s code is now […]
Posted in Meta on Sep 30th, 2007
When I started this blog in June of 2005 I was using WordPress. At the time I was doing Java development and had yet to hear of Rails. Shortly after the blog turned one year old, I migrated to Typo and then to Mephisto in March of this year. Both Typo and Mephisto are capable […]
Posted in Code on May 31st, 2007
I have a Rails application with a small SOAP service that is used for integration. Today I updated the site to Edge Rails and noticed a ton of strange errors related to ActionWebService. The first error looked like this:
Expected app/controllers/my_controller.rb to define MyController
I remembered hearing that ActionWebService was going to be moved out of […]
Posted in Misc on Apr 27th, 2007
I will be attending RailsConf this year. My profile at conferencemeetup.com is here and the sessions I plan to attend are here. If anyone is interested in hanging out at the conference check out the conferencemeetup page or drop me a line at ptoland@fiatdev.com.
Posted in Code on Mar 31st, 2007
A while back I began refactoring reusable pieces of code in my Rails applications into plugins. Overall this has been a successful strategy for keeping my application codebase clean. I have decided to release some of these plugins as open source in the hope that they are useful to someone else. The first plugin I […]
Posted in Code on Mar 31st, 2007
It turns out that I have more to say on the topic of what Rails can learn from other frameworks. This time I have a solution for implementing a cool feature from Django in Rails. With Django a single web site is composed of a “project”, which contains the configuration and settings, and many “applications”. […]
Posted in Code on Mar 30th, 2007
Earlier this month Pat Eyler asked “What can Ruby on Rails learn from other web frameworks?”, and there have been surprisingly few responses. I think that most people find it difficult to criticize a tool that they really like. Or, it could be that Rails does so many things well that the average user doesn’t […]
Posted in Code on Feb 21st, 2007
Jamis Buck says in a post at The Rails Way that it is “trivial…to make your application into a web-service. There’s really very little reason not to do it.” I can think of one very good reason not to turn every controller into a web service: if you don’t need web services then that […]
Posted in Misc on Jul 21st, 2006
Today was my 30th birthday and 11th wedding anniversary. My wife made an awesome Ruby on Rails themed birthday cake and brought it to work after lunch.
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