Tag: ror

  • The Truth About Integrating Rails In The Enterprise

    Ruby on Rails is a great RAD framework. We use it all the time. But one place Rails loses its magic–while not the fault of the framework itself–is with external integrations to legacy systems. First of all, soap4r sucks. Everyone I’ve seen try to pick it up has gotten frustrated and angry at how awkward…

  • Speaking Twice At ABLEconf: Saturday, September 20th, 2008

    I’ll be giving two sessions this Saturday, September 20th, 2008 atĀ ABLEconf: Arizona Business and Liberty Experience hosted at the University of Advancing Technology. The first will be a ~50 minuteĀ getting-started-with-ruby-on-rails type session aimed at developers similar to the one I’m giving this Wednesday for Joe Developer. The second will be a plug-heavy talk over how…

  • Speaking At Joe Developer: Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

    This Wednesday evening, OpenRain will be hosting and providing food for Phoenix’s East-valley Joe Developer group. I’ll be giving a getting-started-with-ruby-on-rails type demo, after which I’m sure there’ll be good conversation and fun. Attendance and food are free. Food will be hot at 6PM. [Venue] [Google Group]

  • Debugging JavaScript With Safari

    I usually use FireBug and other FireFox-based tools for troubleshooting JavaScript issues, but never found a solid way to approach it in Safari, my primary browser. It turns out that the nightly builds of WebKit (Safari’s core) also come with a great utility called Drosera.app, which allows you to attach to a running WebKit process…

  • Rails 2.0: selenium-on-rails routes.rb fix

    When I updated a few projects to Rails 2.0 last year, selenium-on-rails stopped working … some issue with routing and the lame way selenium-on-rails adds its routes. I didn’t spend the time to figure out exactly what the routing problem was, but did manage to hack a quick fix into routes.rb. This feels like the…