An average day
The hard drive died in the MythTV at my parents’ house today. Bad. The 4GB memory upgrade from Crucial for my MacBook arrived today. Good. These two things average out. Meh.
Quote of the Week: William Penn
“If man is not governed by God, he will be ruled by tyrants.” — William Penn
Speaking at RubyRX
Are you a Ruby developer working in the Triangle? Are you registered for the RubyRX conference next weekend? If not, hop over to the Terralien blog to find out why you should come, then get registered! The talk I’ll be giving at RubyRX is titled “Homesteading: The New Entrepreneurial Model.” … Continue reading
Quote of the Week: Alexis de Tocqueville
“When after having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the … Continue reading
Quote of the Week: Teddy Roosevelt
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, … Continue reading
Fast Sphinx indexing with foxy fixtures
Can Sphinx and foxy fixtures place nicely together? Due to the way Sphinx indexing works, foxy fixtures will often slow down the indexing process drastically. This article explains how to overcome this limitation.
Printing an array in multiple table columns
<% @categories.in_groups_of(2).each do |group| %> <tr> <% group.each do |category| %> <td><%=h category.name %></td> <% end %> </tr> <% end %> What are you staring at? Move along, move along.
Smart asset management for Rails plugins
Many Rails plugins require that certain files like images, CSS, and JavaScript get copied to the public folder during installation. The typical way to do this is add code to install.rb, which then gets executed when you first install the plugin in your Rails project. What happens when the assets … Continue reading
Using routes inside Radius tags
I’m in the middle of developing a Radiant extension for Terralien. Radius is the tagging language for Radiant, and today I figured out how to use a route from inside a custom tag class. A typical Radius tag class might look like this: module AwesomeTags include Radiant::Taggable tag “session:logout” do … Continue reading
Quote of the Week: John Adams
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It … Continue reading