http://www.rornoob.com/ en http://www.rornoob.com/a/fixing-memcached-problems-with-rails-3/ http://www.rornoob.com/a/fixing-memcached-problems-with-rails-3/ It should be straight forward and usually is, but can you do if your rails application fails to get a memcached connection? Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:14:00 GMT http://www.rornoob.com/a/excluding-temp-files-with-gitignore/ http://www.rornoob.com/a/excluding-temp-files-with-gitignore/ How to exclude temp files in .gitignore - why wont the double star symbol work? Here's why. Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:47:00 GMT http://www.rornoob.com/a/sort-it-out/ http://www.rornoob.com/a/sort-it-out/ Look how easy ruby makes it to sort arrays of objects; simple sort, reverse sort, sort by multiple attributes Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:17:00 GMT http://www.rornoob.com/a/copying-an-array/ http://www.rornoob.com/a/copying-an-array/ Showing a list of attributes that appear on either object A or it's parent should be really easy right? So why do some attributes "magically disappear"? It seems my array copy is to blame... Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:51:00 GMT http://www.rornoob.com/a/beware-of-comments-in-ruby-1.8.7/ http://www.rornoob.com/a/beware-of-comments-in-ruby-1.8.7/ I can across a strange bug when upgrading to ruby enterprise 1.8.7 - one of my views displayed incorrectly after the upgrade but it was fine beforehand. At least the workaround is easy! Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:40:00 GMT http://www.rornoob.com/a/rails-flash-not-clearing/ http://www.rornoob.com/a/rails-flash-not-clearing/ Sometimes rails flash[:notice] messages seem to "stick around" for a while - sound familiar? I was initially stumped, but the solution is an easy one... Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:53:00 GMT http://www.rornoob.com/a/nested-objects-and-validates_presence_of/ http://www.rornoob.com/a/nested-objects-and-validates_presence_of/ Nested attributes in rails 2.3.3 can really simplify the updating of nested models, but creating nested models throws up an interesting problem when your model uses validates_presence_of Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:07:00 GMT http://www.rornoob.com/a/rspec-route_for-failures/ http://www.rornoob.com/a/rspec-route_for-failures/ Don't you hate it when your tests work on one server but not on another? That happened to me today and I've traced the problem down to a different version of rspec which requires a different syntax. Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:37:00 GMT http://www.rornoob.com/a/active-resource-find-with-conditions-problem/ http://www.rornoob.com/a/active-resource-find-with-conditions-problem/ I can't get the ActiveResource find method to return the correct results when passing through conditions - it's like my :params parameter is being ignored. Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:52:00 GMT http://www.rornoob.com/a/pass-error-message-to-activeresource-get/ http://www.rornoob.com/a/pass-error-message-to-activeresource-get/ How can I return an error message to an ActiveResource get request? The ActiveResource model doesn't seem to receive anything other than the http error code. Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:38:00 GMT http://www.rornoob.com/a/where-is-unprocessable-entity/ http://www.rornoob.com/a/where-is-unprocessable-entity/ I've been working on some existing code that handles restful authentication. I noticed that the code returns :status => :unprocessable_entity if the login fails. That sounds reasonable, but what actually is that status code, and what other status codes are available should I wish to return different results depending on whether say, the user_name is invalid, or the database is unavailable? Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:18:00 GMT http://www.rornoob.com/a/the-manager-worker-problem/ http://www.rornoob.com/a/the-manager-worker-problem/ Lets jump right in with a technical question here... In part of our legacy system there's a manager-workers relationship. How can I best manage this in ruby on rails given the constraints of the legacy DB structure? Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:01:00 GMT http://www.rornoob.com/a/ruby-on-rails-adventure-begins/ http://www.rornoob.com/a/ruby-on-rails-adventure-begins/ Ruby is different, and rails is kind of magic at times. Surely if I'm learning ruby on rails I can help others learn too. So come onboard, join the conversation - no question's a dumb question here at RoRnoob.com Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:08:00 GMT