Logitech Sucks Twice
Last Christmas my wife bought me a Logitech Harmony remote. Over the past few months I’ve noticed that it barely holds a charge and so if I don’t leave it on the charger all the time it just dies. Last night I went to use the remote and it burned my hand it [...]
Uses for banana
My two year old son has picked up an interesting habit of using ‘banana’ like the f-bomb. “I hate that! Banana you!”
Add Theming Engine to Your Rails Application
I’ve written about the disguise gem before, but I’ve made enough changes that it warrants a new blog post. I noticed a few performance problems which have now been fixed and the configuration has been cleaned up a bit.
Disguise makes it simple to swap out the views used by your rails application either by [...]
acts_as_taggable libraries and the big case problem.
Over the years I’ve had a chance to use the three tagging libraries available for Ruby on Rails:
acts-as-taggable-on
acts_as_taggable_on_steroids
acts_as_taggable
I think the original acts as taggable is now defunct. The other libraries are derivatives of that library. In using tags on various sites the problem I always seem to run across is how to deal [...]
undefined method `assert_no_difference’ and `assert_difference’
I’ve been upgrading some old code and noticed that my unit tests started spitting out a lot of errors like this:
undefined method `assert_no_difference’
and
undefined method `assert_difference’
It turns out that I needed to change my base classes from Test::Unit::TestCase to ActiveSupport::TestCase:
class UserTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
# stuff
end
changes to:
class UserTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
# stuff
end
What I Got for Christmas This Year
We’re home from my parents which in a way marks the end of the Christmas celebration for us. Although, I am pushing for a return of the Twelve days of Christmas which doesn’t end until January 5.
Here’s what I got for Christmas this year:
A chance to play Santa Claus with the most beautiful Misses [...]
Justin Ball is a software consultant and entrepreneur with a passion for Ruby. He evolved from a C++ and .Net monkey into a python programmer and finally found Ruby. In the rare moments when he isn't writing code, talking about code or measuring his code productivity in profanity per hour, you can find him on his bike in the mountains or on the roads surrounding Cache Valley. 
