Johnathon

Wright

"I've given you admin privileges ... this way you can see everything. Please do not make any changes to the data." - Shawn

Courtesy of the great Panda, here's how to refresh a page using javascript. It's one of those things that makes sense once you see it, but that I doubt I would have guessed had I needed it. ---js window.location = window.location

As part of my vital signs project, I'm building a framework for monitoring the health of an application based on various ways of 'taking its temperature'. Each vital sign will measure something specific (drive space left on the server,  database requests per second, etc.).   The point of this project is to quickly give  _any_  viewer an idea of...

I've been confused in the past about the behavior of "Ruby's Hash constructor":http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Hash.html#M002868 . Now that I've looked at the documentation, I have to say I think it violates the principle of least surprise. A default hash returns nil any time you access a key with no set value. The default value can be...

I've been working on a Ruby library for accessing the "NefFlix API":http://developer.netflix.com/docs/REST_API_Reference . It's good fun, but it's brought me to some pain points that don't fit in to my "OO is king" worldview. My current struggle revolves around parsing. Should an object know how to parse its data from some external data...

Take a look at the "ruby gem named valuable":http://valuable.mustmodify.com I recently worked on a Rails project where most of the domain-related data came from a HyperCube database, rather than a relational one. I have to admint, albeit begrudgingly, that it provided a lot of value. Conversely, the interface was crazily complicated, and...

Using SQL Server 2005 with Rails 1.2.6, I got the following (less than helpful) error message. --- OLE error code:80004005 in Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server       SQL Server does not exist or access denied.     HRESULT error code:0x80020009       Exception occurred. --- database.yml: ---yml development:  adapter:...

Test Driven Development - noun, also TDD  - The step-by-step process of creating an application that is well tested by codifying expectations as tests, then implementing the solution to that test. As implied by the name, the tests drive the implementation, instead of meandering randomly through the code, changing things willy-nilly. TDD changes...