Archive for February, 2006
Sunday, February 26th, 2006
Noobs helping Noobs
I have recently got on IRC. I’ve been on the #rubyonrails for a few days. I, a rails noob, has even managed to help a few other noobs. One problem I helped with, seems to have something to do with strange characters in your file, you get some strange error about \34 character (or something [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Ruby On Rails by nola
Sunday, February 19th, 2006
Don’t QUOTE rails…
Apparently, “quote” is a reserved word. I had a database field with that name. I was getting a strange error …
wrong number of arguments(2 for 0)
HUH? RoR is keeping score on me? who’s winning??
Upon searching google, I found this post..
http://www.beyondthetype.com/rails/2005/11/27/rails-gotcha-wrong-number-of-arguments2-for-0
hmm.. so I checked the lis of reserved words…
Rails Doc on this: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/3628
SO let that be [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Ruby On Rails by nola
Friday, February 17th, 2006
Rails Security or Why Can’t all Code be Perfect?
I was a bit alarmed (thats what happens before Cup of Coffee #2 to read this post:
WebObjects VS. Ruby
I hadn’t thought of some of those things before. I have wondered though, what things would a paranoid security person have to say about Rails. So I posted to a RoR mailing list to see what they [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Ruby On Rails, Security by nola
Friday, February 17th, 2006
Choo Choo at last
Finally got RoR working on my laptop, I don’t know how it worked before then stopped, but if I put use a user with no password it works fine. Something with the drivers I think for MySQL. But no matter, it works. I got subversion to work on my new webhost RailsPlayground.com and everythins is [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Ruby On Rails by nola
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
Rails and Instant De-Rails
Thanks for the input on the Rails hosting and my Ruby question. I also got a response from the Chicago group which you can see in the archives here if you are interested.. I decided to go with different controllers since I will probably add more funtionality to the products section later.
I got an account [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Ruby On Rails by nola
Friday, February 10th, 2006
Rails Question
I posted this to the Chicago Ruby Users Group, but no response yet. Maybe one of the two readers of thie blog have some advice:
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I’m working on a small project (5 major pages, 1 with 4 linked off, 1 with 3
linked off) and I was going to just do it all in flat html files [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Ruby On Rails by nola
Friday, February 10th, 2006
New Webhost
I’m looking for a new web host HiVelocity won’t fix the
problem with me emailing AOL. I want to have access as root(or a tech support that will
assist me when I want to make changes), at least 20 some domains (none very high traffic).
I need PHP, MySQL, Ruby, Rails, Python and Perl.
I want to spend around [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by nola
Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
I love it
I love it.
Thats all I can say.
No Comments » - Posted in Fun by nola
Friday, February 3rd, 2006
MakinDo 0.1
I had a brilliant idea today. I tried to get a client to consider RoR and got the expected response. Hey, I’ll make a Framework called “Makin’ Do” here’s a list of features I’ve come up with so far:
PHP 4.0
MySQL 3.17
No Pear
Does not include any ridiculous testing apparatus (who needs it anyways?)
No template system [...]
