Johnathon

Wright

Rounding things in IE8 is one of the biggest farses ever. After some research, I'm using dd_roundies. I won't explain how it works, because you don't deserve that kind of suffering. It seems to work for rounding objects in IE before the page is set to the "ready" state, but it's failing for me in ajax requests (and in fact any javascript that...

Download and uncompress Prince: --- jw@gallifrey:~$ curl http://www.princexml.com/download/prince-7.1-linux.tar.gz -o prince.tar.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 3879k 100 3879k 0 0 763k 0 0:00:05 ...

Rails fails with 500 I spent at least six hours isolating this issue so I thought I'd save someone else some trouble. Say you have a site fu.com ... if you're doing any SEO work (or if you just want things to be clean) you'll 301 redirect all traffic from fu.com to www.fu.com. You can do this with Rails with a before_filter in your Rails...

This post is me thinking 'out loud' about how to add custom parsing "ruby gem valuable":http://valuable.mustmodify.com In the past I ran into quite a few situations where I wanted to parse / process / format certain attributes as they came in. There seemed to be a lull in that so I hadn't implemented it, but now I find myself wanting it again....

I'd been having troubles wherein I would try to use my numeric keypad in VIM but would get letters. Instead of 123456 I would get qrstuv. The fix for me was a putty setting... Terminal > Features > Disable application keypad mode should be checked. REFERENCE: "Putty numeric keypad...

This took up an hour of my life today. Here's the fix. At some point I'll go back and research "Double Ruby":http://github.com/btakita/rr to figure out what went wrong, but for now, tests are failing validly... ---diff --- a/spec/spec_helper.rb +++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Spec::Runner.configure do |config| ...

I often use tail -f filename.txt ... then recently I realized I was switching back and forth between test.log and development.log, and that only one was being used at a time -- could I follow both at the same time? Turns out you can, and really easily. --- tail -f file1.txt file2.txt --- or even --- tail -f log/*.log --- useful and...

As a general rule, if you need to do something with sudo in your cap scripts, and you don't know why that might be a bad idea, something has gone wrong. I recently ran in to an exception. For various reasons, we need to auto-generate our httpd.include file after deploying to production. note: command names have been change to protect me from...