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Finding Visitor Locations in Rails5 comments

Mike Gunderloy wrote 3 weeks ago: I’ve got an application that I work on where the client wants to track which countries they … more →

Tags: Geolocation, rails

Building Rails with Cerberus and multiruby

Mike Gunderloy wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been poking at various continuous integration software lately. Most recently I gave Cerbe … more →

Tags: Cerberus, continuous_integration, multiruby

Seed Data in Rails 33 comments

Mike Gunderloy wrote 1 month ago: One of the perennial code smells in many Rails applications is the use of migrations as a way to car … more →

Tags: rails, seed

Announcing RailsBridge2 comments

Mike Gunderloy wrote 2 months ago: This morning, I’m pleased to be able to announce a new initiative that I’ve played a sma … more →

Tags: Community, railsbridge

A Painful Decision163 comments

Mike Gunderloy wrote 2 months ago: There has been some discussion in recent days in the Rails community about appropriate conference pr … more →

Tags: Miscellany, rails, reinventing

Touch your Active Record Instances5 comments

Mike Gunderloy wrote 2 months ago: Now that Rails 2.3 is out and the core team has caught their collective breath, new features are sta … more →

Tags: ActiveRecord, rails, Edge

Batting Clean-up5 comments

Mike Gunderloy wrote 3 months ago: I’ve spent a lot of time over the past few years working with Rails projects that were written … more →

Tags: rails

Rails 2.3.2.13 comments

Mike Gunderloy wrote 3 months ago: Rails 2.3.2.1 is out. There’s some confusion about this floating around already, so here … more →

Tags: , rails

Rails 2.3: Batch Finding5 comments

Mike Gunderloy wrote 4 months ago: If you’ve ever worked with a huge number of Active Record objects and watched your server memo … more →

Tags: ActiveRecord, rails

Updating file_column1 comment

Mike Gunderloy wrote 4 months ago: I recently inherited a Rails application that used an old, old version of file_column to handle atta … more →

Tags: file_column

A Note on Memoization in Rails6 comments

Mike Gunderloy wrote 4 months ago: If you’ve been following along at home, you know that memoization was added to Rails 2.2 as a … more →

Tags: memoization

Digging Into the Named Scope Magic1 comment

Mike Gunderloy wrote 4 months ago: I got an IM this afternoon from a friend, pointing to part of the Active Record Query Interface guid … more →

Tags: named_scopes, rails

Rails 2.3: Localized Views1 comment

Mike Gunderloy wrote 5 months ago: One of the late-breaking changes to sneak into Rails 2.3 is localized views. If you’re staying … more →

Highlighting Text in Rails5 comments

Mike Gunderloy wrote 5 months ago: Presumably you’ve seen those Web 2.0 sites that highlight random words in the marketing text t … more →

Tags: rails, highlighter

Testing Active Record with JDBC

Mike Gunderloy wrote 5 months ago: You probably already know, at least vaguely, that Rails is working on JRuby compatibility (it’ … more →

Tags: jruby, rails, JDBC

Announcing ActionRails1 comment

Mike Gunderloy wrote 5 months ago: As many of you know, I’ve been increasingly active in the Rails community in the last year. Wo … more →

Tags: actionrails, Consulting

Using Amazon Simple Pay from Rails2 comments

Mike Gunderloy wrote 6 months ago: I’ve recently been working to integrate Amazon Simple Pay into an application. In general, thi … more →

Tags: Amazon, AWS, simple pay

Coming in Rails 2.3: Simpler Rendering

Mike Gunderloy wrote 6 months ago: Over the years, ActionController::Base#render has grown quite a few options: render :action => … more →

Tags: rails

Multi-variable Initialization Gotcha6 comments

Mike Gunderloy wrote 6 months ago: Sometimes the fact that I don’t know all the ins and outs of Ruby, coupled with habits carried … more →

Tags: Ruby


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