Archive for August, 2007

Override them both

« 28 August 2007 | 17:03 | rubyonrails | No Comments »

I was trying to override the ‘getter’ part of an attribute accessor on one of my model classes today. After writing some tests and adding the new ‘getter’, I noticed test failures in other areas which should have just been assigning to the accessor.
After a bit of experimentation in the console to see that assignment […]



Asynchronous Email in Rails with ARMailer

« 27 August 2007 | 17:02 | rubyonrails | No Comments »

Back in May I was trying to get asynchronous email going in one of my projects using ARMailer by Eric Hodel. I ran into some issues that we had started to debug and then I got way too busy to follow up on tracking them down. Today I had a few hours to spend on […]



Learning Prototype and Trailing Commas in Javascript

« 22 August 2007 | 10:42 | Uncategorized | No Comments »

I have been using Prototype a bit lately in the project I am working on. This is pretty much the first time I have used OO Javascript and it has been an interesting experience. The Pragmatic Programmers Prototype and Script.aculo.us book, though still in beta, has been a great help in getting things figured out.
Today […]