Johnathon

Wright

http://htwins.net/scale2/ I love how much information is communicated in such a simple interface. I also like the fact that data appears when it is needed, but doesn't clutter up the screen when it is not needed.

Setting up a Rails3 application quickly, I ran in to this error... no such file to load -- spec/expectations easy fix... I had gem 'rspec' but needed to add gem 'rspec-rails'

From "Use Mercurial, you Git!":http://translated.by/you/use-mercurial-you-git/original/?show-translation-form=1 "If I'd wanted building blocks for rolling my own, I'd have gone to Home Depot and bought a 1 and a 0."

Here's how I typically setup my rails environments. NOTE: I don't include stored procedure or view permissions because Rails doesn't ever use those. Wouldn't it be great if Rails used views or stored procedures? Actually, I kinda like it the way it is. Stored Procedures are nice but the tradeoff, IE having business logic in the app and in the...

Typically, you define your path in /etc/environment. Here's a simple example: --- PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/ruby/bin" --- That last bit tells the system where Ruby lives. If Ruby isn't in the path, you won't be able to run it or any gem scripts, like bundle. Unfortunately,...

I received this message when I ran cucumber tests but not when I used script/console. Kinda strange. Perhaps this is because I didn't configure cucumber for my dev environment?? Anyway, the fix: --- gem uninstall rubygems-update gem update --system 1.4.3 --- In the words of Yoda, "Unfortunate this is, and unexpected." References ======= "Can...

Ruby 1.9 assumes that everyone has been broken of the bad habit of illogical date formats. in the console: --- >> Date.parse('2/15/2011') ArgumentError: invalid date >> Date.parse('2/15/11') ArgumentError: invalid date >> '2/15/2011'.to_date ArgumentError: invalid date --- While I'm driving everyone crazy by...

"Twilio":http://www.twilio.com/ apparently offers a "telephone api":http://www.twilio.com/how-twilio-works and also an SMS API. I get how you could easily set up an SMS API. Pretty cool stuff. But what amazed me what the idea that someone could call a telephone number, which would result in a post to my website... and I would respond with...