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Last night’s dream
I got off the tube and all of the walkways were drifting around, because they were suspended from the ceiling by rusty chains. I was the only person who had to lie down and crawl to the exit.
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respond_to ordering still causing havoc with Internet Explorer 7
At least a year ago, I ran into this guy’s problem. Today, I just ran into a similar situation with Rails 3′s class-level respond_to / instance-level respond_with pattern.
Why is serving YUI3 over HTTPS so hard?
Yahoo! don’t have a HTTPS YUI3 endpoint. This means that you have to do some work to serve YUI3 if you want to avoid Internet Explorer users from getting warnings about mixed content (and you do). That work, for me … Continue reading
Resolving Cucumber step ambiguities
Following the latest campaign against imperative Cucumber stories in favour of declarative stories (see especially Dan North’s great article on domain languages), I’ve been trying to get more naturalistic language into my stories. However, it becomes very easy to run … Continue reading
Make Solr / sunspot_rails, Cucumber and VCR bestest buddies
After spending the morning banging my head against another Cucumber problem, I thought the best way to spend an afternoon would be to run into another hilarious jape that Rails 3 threw at me.
Always define controller action methods in Rails 3
This morning was spent puzzling over a strange hard-to-reproduce Cucumber test failure in a project I have been upgrading from Rails 2.3.x to 3.0.3. It was only occurring after certain steps had been taken in previous Scenarios, and not when … Continue reading
ActiveRecord errors full_messages i18n incompatibility
If you’re running a Rails 2 app on a system with the latest i18n gem, ActiveRecord’s object.errors.full_messages spits out the string “{{attribute}} {{message}}”. You might notice that this is the old interpolation syntax for internationalisation in Rails 2. The latest … Continue reading
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Notes on a Rails 3 upgrade
Most scary output from console is warning rather than error. RSpec 2 doesn’t have have_tag method. Now using webrat’s have_selector. Plugin to help with upgrade only relevant to Rails 2 project, which seems silly. Should use ‘extend ActiveModel::Naming’ in non-ActiveRecord … Continue reading
Pong in HTML5 Canvas and YUI3, with tests!
In case you’re one of my clients, you might be wondering why I’ve been slacking off recently. Here’s why: I’ve been teaching myself ‘grown up’ JavaScript under instruction of Douglas Crockford (in book and video form, obviously). Crockford never mentions … Continue reading
Setting 503 response code for Apache default virtual host
I know I promised my next post would be a tutorial on Chef, but this is kinda related. When new Rails servers are spinning up, I want Apache to respond to any requests with 503, both for SEO purposes in … Continue reading