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Although the Rails ActionMailer class is easy to test, I wanted to really use it in development mode to check all my settings in the config/email.yml file.

The Fedora code base pretty much… Continue reading | 1 Comment

I’m working on a project that is using the latest Rails markup buzz, namely Compass, SASS and HAML, so it’s time to begin the learning process. Part of that effort will be… Continue reading

I won’t take any credit here. If you want to do this, jump right over to the Ryan Bates Railscast Number 170. He totally nails it – just follow along and adjust for the… Continue reading

I’m playing around a bit with the HAML gem. It broke my Apache / Passenger server immediately. The original error message looked something like:

/!\ FAILSAFE /!\ 2009-05-01 10:05:18 -1000
Status… Continue reading

There have been occasional discussions about integrating a Wordpress CMS into a Rails application. One approach is to simply do a Wordpress install under RAILS_ROOT/public/blog. That’s pretty straightforward:

cd RAILS_ROOT/public
mkdir blog… Continue reading

Last week there was a fair amount of buzz about Wordpress security issues. Here’s an Information Week article and also a short blurb from IT World in case you’re not a Wordpress user… Continue reading

I have been bouncing between the RadRails and NetBeans IDEs for quite some time now. I like them both a lot, but I have not been able to make RadRails Test::Unit work 100%… Continue reading

Back in the old days (pre-2000), the various flavors of UNIX had very little security other than the “baked-in” stuff such as encrypted passwords, root vs normal users, the standard file permissions, etc. Later, things… Continue reading

If I wrote code all day, every day, I’m sure I could become really good at manipulating regular expressions. The obscure syntax is sort of Zen-like with a large dose of Perl obfuscation-fu. A one-liner… Continue reading

Watir – Web Application Testing in Ruby – I’m thinking about adding this as part of my standard Rails integration tests. I like the idea of capturing keystokes that a user might actually run. Plus… Continue reading | 2 Comments