Gracefully Age Your Rails Logs with LogRotate
by Mike Zazaian at 2009-10-13 10:42:40 UTC in rails unixHow to use the unix-standard logrotate to automatically maintain outdated logs in your Rails app
3 commentsUsing BASH Aliases To Simplify Your Existence
by Mike Zazaian at 2009-10-10 15:28:44 UTC in unixhow to create powerful user-specific alias commands in your ~/.bashrc to increase productivity
no commentsCreating Pretty URLs From Multiple Attributes With friendly_id
by Mike Zazaian at 2009-10-04 22:42:27 UTC in plugins rails gemsa brief tutorial on how to make pretty urls for your Rails models using multiple attributes rather than one
6 commentsHow To Modify Default Setters and Getters in Rails Models
by Mike Zazaian at 2009-09-28 02:51:10 UTC in rails syntaxa brief overview on using the read_attribute and write_attribute methods, and their shorthands, for overriding default setter/getter behaviour in Rails
no commentsTracking Rails Application Behavior and Errors with the Ruby Logger
by Mike Zazaian at 2009-09-21 17:23:40 UTC in railsa quick overview on the utility of the Ruby Logger class, how it's implemented in Rails, and how to create a custom log to track only specific actions in your app
2 commentsAdding reCAPTCHA to Comments in Your Rails App
by Mike Zazaian at 2009-09-15 20:07:38 UTC in plugins rails gemshow to easily add reCAPTCHA confirmation to comments and other models in your Rails application using the ambethia-recaptcha gem
no commentsRails Rumble 2009 Winners Announced
by Mike Zazaian at 2009-09-05 20:53:16 UTC in newsthe top 22 applications for this year's 48-hour Rails Rumble development competition have been selected
no comments_why the lucky stiff vanishes without a trace
by Mike Zazaian at 2009-09-05 18:31:12 UTC in editorial newsthe one great enigma of the Ruby community, and seemingly everything that he'd ever contributed to it, has disappeared without any notice whatsoever
no commentsusing hpricot to auto-populate link information
by Mike Zazaian at 2009-09-05 03:57:10 UTC in gemsa nifty way to automatically grab title or description tags from the destination page of a url
no commentsUsing Git Submodules to Manage Plugins in Rails
by Mike Zazaian at 2009-08-30 22:01:45 UTC in plugins rails versioninga really useful way to utilize git submodules to maintain plugins in your Rails application without making constant changes to your git repository
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