Ruby On Rails
Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 24 2020 - Nobody Has Ever But Me
In this episode, I play an older but recently rereleased song by Sarah Shook and the Devil; I tell the story of how configuration screwed up my previous readings of the patrons; sometimes it is a miracle that content is created; on the Carson podcast I heard two guests that rattled my cage; newest...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 9 2020 - Remedial Viewing
In this episode, I play the traditional Jonathan Coulton song for this time of year; audio editing used to be unbelievably terrible; the I Claudius rewatch project is over; I watched Rounders for the first time; I am working on a Ruby on Rails based crypto trading bot; Michael Butler is weird;...
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David Heinenmeier Hansson responds to the idea that perhaps Ruby on Rails will never "go mainstream" with this brilliant insight: To me, mainstream is mostly about reaching people who just don't care. There are certainly benefits to having such a broad reach that it can include people who...
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I'm thinking seriously about going to RailsConf in Chicago (announcement here). I'm getting more into Rails all the time, and really enjoying it. It's predominantly what I use for my fun-time programming nowadays. I'd like to be there with a lot of the game-stepper-uppers and hear about the...
read articleRuby on Rails Scaffolding Hint
For those of you who ever have to do Rails work with an older database that was not created according to RoR naming specs and to which other things have been coded such that you can't just rename everything, here's something I found out the hard way. I created my model and used set_table_name to...
read articleRuby on Rails Thoughts
I have been interested in Ruby on Rails for a while, and been fiddling with it in the nights and weekends. I like to stay up on new technologies and frameworks, partly because it is fun and partly because that's some of the value I bring to the folks I work for. The more I know about the...
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