about 2 months ago - No comments
This is a follow-on from my piece on how I got the (development version of) Catapult Magazine up and running with Rails 3.0pre. If you haven’t already done so, I’d recommend you read that first.
Catapult makes use of the permalink_fu plugin which fails in Rails 3. It fails because of a reliance on the evaluate_attribute_method More >
about 2 months ago - 1 comment
I used to be a strong adherent to tracking edge rails. Up until the release of rails 2.3 I let most of my frequently updated projects track edge with a vendored copy of rails, and it rarely caused me any trouble. When 2.3 hit I rethought all that.
With Rails 3 development ramping up I More >
about 11 months ago - Comments Off
Somewhere between Ruby on Rails versions 2.3.0 (RC1) and 2.3.2 (final) a change was made to the arguments required for one of the methods the theme_support plugin requires. I must confess I hadn’t spotted it, but github user knapo kindly sent me a message with a patch. That patch is now applied in the main More >
about 1 year ago - 11 comments
In my ongoing efforts to bring my fork of theme_support in line with Rails 2.3 I’ve covered the core views and email, but when I left off earlier today layouts still weren’t working.
The key problem with overriding layouts is that the process of identifying them relies on some class methods on ActionController::Base (provided in the More >
about 1 year ago - 6 comments
Stage 2 of fixing up theme_support for Rails 2.3 was making sure that ActionMailer picked up themed templates (for stage 1 information see here). That’s something I’d not quite cracked in the 2.2 version, so starting afresh with 2.3 forced me to spend the time to look through the full render path and figure out More >
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
A couple of months back, I realised that two of my projects (Generous and Catapult) could do with the help of the theme_support Rails plugin. Discovering that it didn’t play nicely with Rails 2.1, I created a fork on github and hacked at the _pick_template method to get it to do what I wanted. It More >
about 1 year ago - Comments Off
I like to always have at least one project on the go that works as a testbed for a variety of new Rails techniques, tools and releases. For a long time that project was Grand Rapids WiFi, a site that lapsed into some neglect after I moved (a long way) away from the town it More >
about 1 year ago - 6 comments
Thoughtbot have released a suite of plugins over the past few months that are enlivening the fields of Ruby on Rails file attachments (paperclip) and authentication (clearance), long dominated by Rick Olson’s attachment_fu and restful_authentication. You can see some previous posts about attachment_fu here and here.
I’ve been playing with paperclip on a couple of projects, More >
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
About eighteen months ago I compiled a series of reviews of Ruby on Rails plugins concerned with geography. I put together a comparison chart and posted it on this blog. It subsequently found a new home on a wiki, but lately that wiki has rarely been accessible so I decided it was time to move More >
about 1 year ago
Very good idea, thanks for sharing