Archive for the ‘Ruby’ Category

If you’ve ever used ActiveResource or for that matter, coded anything that involves interacting with a remote API, you’ve probably had the misfortune of having that API go down or become unresponsive. The experienced old geezers would already have forseen the problem and set a timeout on those API calls. For the rest of us, [...]

Not much going on this week on edge Rails. It does seem however that we do have a new Rails core member, Joshua Peek. Also, the new Rails’ bug tracker hosted on Lighthouse is ready for use, so be sure to submit your patches and bug reports there. This week’s report covers changes from 14 [...]

A slight change this week since Rails has moved to Git – all changesets are now referenced to Github. This week’s report covers changes from 7 Apr 2008 to 13 Apr 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Envy podcast was recorded). A helpers proxy method for accessing helper methods from outside of views A helpers [...]

I’m gonna post up the Living on the Edge a little earlier this week because I’ve found I just can’t keep up (when things get busy) with 2 separate sets of notes for the Rails Envy podcast and another for my own blog posts. From this week onwards, I’ll be following Pratik‘s suggestion to post [...]

This week’s report covers changes from 24 Mar 2008 to 30 Mar 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Envy podcast was recorded). There’re lots of big exciting changes this week on edge. Smells like 2.1 soon! has_finder gem merged into Rails Ryan Daigle has the scoop on the new has_finder-like functionality in Rails so head [...]