For some of you that don’t know this yet (don’t be ashamed of yourself, I only heard about it a a few months back), Rails 2 recommends a new file extension for your template file. At this point, everyone was using template extensions like: .rhtml .rxml .rjs To unify the template files, the Rails developers … Continue reading Rails new template file extensions
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There is one plugin that I use in all my projects, and that is the Foreign Key Migrations plugin from RedHill. Defining foreign keys can’t become easier then this. Since as far as I know, Rails migrations don’t set foreign keys in your database, so this is the best solution. It uses SQL-92 syntax and as … Continue reading Rails and foreign keys
Yesterday evening, I installed Netbeans 6.1 since I use it for my Ruby on Rails development. When developing today, I wanted to use the debugger. But for some reason I couldn’t seem to install the Fast Debugger again. After some research on the Netbeans site, I came across the answer. There is a bug in … Continue reading Netbeans 6.1 Fast Debugger Bug
I really start to get into the Rails rabbit hole. The last 9 months or so, I’ve been working in some Rails projects for the company I work for during the day. I have learned a lot, but when reading other peoples blog, I still feel like a real Uber n00b. I started last weekend … Continue reading RESTful programming… but what does it mean?
When I first started programming (started with Turbo Pascal and then Visual Basic), I really enjoyed programming. It was a whole new world opening up for me. Whenever I needed a piece of software to make my life easier, I just sat down in front of the computer and started programming like crazy. VB was … Continue reading Analysing and Unit Testing: A crucial part of development…or not
As I said in my previous post, I would tell more about why I switched to Doctrine. I mainly started to think about the idea when I first heard that we were going to start a new project in Symfony at work. The lead developer decided to go for Doctrine ORM instead of Propel. So … Continue reading Why I switched to Doctrine
This weekend, I decided to give Doctrine a shot. Since Propel is the default ORM layer, I never really looked at Doctrine before. But reading on the subject got me interested. Luckily their is already a nice Doctrine plugin available for Symfony, so the switch went smooth, without any problems. I have to admit, that … Continue reading Switching to Doctrine
Since I started my new job, I had to learn Ruby On Rails in a real quick pace. My employer wanted to step up to the next level with the web applications the company developed. For that, they chose for Ruby On Rails, so off course, like I was the new kid in the house, … Continue reading Long live Active Scaffold
A few days ago, I had to finish up a new website. Nothing fancy and all that, just a basic, simple layout website. As usual, I developed the thing only viewing it in Firefox. I thought it wouldn’t matter that much to other browsers since it was pretty basic. So after some nice work, I … Continue reading Cross-browser CSS
I’m one of those guys that loves to switch between platform. One time, I just feel the need to use Linux, the other, I just run back to Windows. During those switches, I have experienced both sides through the development process of software and websites. But still I’m not so sure what platform fits my … Continue reading What is a good developing platform?