Decided to learn a little more about Ruby by writing a Ruby program to manipulate some MySql tables that I have. I could have used "ActiveRecord" but I wanted to use Ruby classes only. Originally I had errors because it was not finding the MySql gem. T… more »

Working today on a Rails app that groups client generated webapges and we need to have the ability to screen out "child safety challenged" and "naughtyware" from being indexed by google so we are not blacklisted from adwords. The final step was generatin… more »

Nice. Having trouble deploying my Rails app at a certain host, so tried heroku and am pleased. I built a bare bone app and tried to deploy it and it was almost too easy. You just have to have a public key and the setup is easy, see quickstart. No I am no… more »

Using the FormOptionsHelper method: collection_select, I was running into a problem where I had three similar drop downs and one was not working - it never had the selected="selected" set and so would not show the selected value. Its a pretty basic but u… more »

So I am working on a Rails application that already exists. Its already running half way around the world, so fun for me to work on this remotely. I'll call it NWF. So some things learned from such a venture, will document them here. First off, to get… more »