Ruby Debugger Primer
Very quick rdebug primer for using the debugger in Mongrel. <h1>Setting Up your Environment for Debugging</h1> gem install ruby-debug If you’re in textmate go to Bundles > Bundle Editor >…
Singular or Plural in Rails
Quick cheet-sheet to help you remember when to type a singular entity or a plural.
Firefox plug-ins I use
Web Developer — adds a robust set of tools to peek under the hood. Adds a toolbar to your windows to let you do things like disable Javascript, cookies, css,…
Boolean OR operators evaluate left to right, and stops evaluating once it finds something that is true.
All programming languages work this way, but still it is nice to remember that Ruby does this. >> n = nil => nil >> x # x is undefined, just…
NY Tech Meetup Oct 6, 2009: Tagnic, Anyclip
Two of the interesting startups presented tonight at NY Tech meetup underscore one of the crucial facets of the tech industry today: In terms of what will be successful, no…
Coercion operations affect which order you might evaluate variables in
In trying to write code to give me the full name of “next” month (in my case, November, as today is October 6), I just stumbled across this interesting little…