Yet another of my general "oh this is whats going on" updates. First up, we've got my latest work for WhyGoSolo - we finally added search, even if it's in the very basics still. See the small screenshot below or log in and check it out in the uppermost nav, near where the link to your own profile is. Continue Reading »
Of what's to come... Continue Reading »
A while back whilst browsing the RORO Google Group, I noticed Xavier Shay's little project "Enki" - an interesting little blog engine written on Ruby on Rails. Continue Reading »
Just a quick note before I start - This has been written mainly as an entry to the Railscast's contest for epic loot. With that said, I'm hoping they're some generally helpful tips. Continue Reading »
Time for another blog post is it? Well, it has been a while. Mainly because I started University. Well, that and a couple other things. So here it is, What I've been doing for the last few weeks:. Continue Reading »
Rack come's with a lot of excellent middleware out of the box, making a lot of seriously cool things possible. One of the most important of these middleware's is URLMap - a little gem that lets you map different url paths to different rack applications. Using Rack::Builder / rackup syntax you can use the map method with a block to define a different urled application. Continue Reading »
Ok, the titles lame but I hope the contents aren't. Today I'll be running through a quick Capistrano config - perfect for if your running on a VPS - that has a heap of free goodies included. Also, thanks to Skiz on #offrails for a nice start earlier after I lost some of my stuff. Continue Reading »
To better manage the ATM code base, one of the first decisions I made was to have several different sub apps. Each sub app will basically inherit all models etc from the site core as well as libraries etc. One of the key pieces of software in the current ATM code base is ATM Tools - a small library designed make it easier to sync different apps from the core. Continue Reading »
One of the core areas (well, the main core area - it's the main apart of the application that is shared between all of the applications that make up ATM) is the user management system. Built from the ground up (e.g. not using Restful Authentication itself) it combines lessons learnt from my experience using other systems. Continue Reading »
And in other news, I upgraded the blog to Thin tonight. The extra speed and power was a nice incentive to switch as was the whole 'coolness factor'. Next up is rewriting the stats server. So +1 Kudos for thin!. Continue Reading »
