Paperclip with Passenger
1) be sure to put in your environment file (inside your initializer) config.gem “paperclip” 2) make sure your form_form has…
How do I reload my models if I’m in script/console?
Sometimes you’re in script/console and you make a change to your model files, but since Ruby on reads the models…
Writing to the development log in Rails.
logger.debug WHAT_TO_OUTPUT ***** I think this syntax only works in controllers and outside of a controller you have to use…
Methods ending with an equal sign? (Ruby basics)
A method defined on a model that ends with = is an assignment method, so when ActiveRecord is trying to…
With Passenger where does the console log (output from puts) go?
When running Passenger (module for running Rails on Apache), the console log (output from puts) goes into the apache error…
Cucumber – Behavior-Driven Development
<h1>CUCUMBER FIRST STEPS</h1> Much of the online documentation for Cucumber dives right in. Here are some pointers for those very…
Rails error: undefined method `use_transactional_fixtures=`
when running tests, I’m getting an error: undefined method `use_transactional_fixtures=` for Test::Unit::testCase:Class (NoMethodError) This happens if you generated your tests…
How can I get my Mac OS X version from the command line?
Under almost all circumstances, you can just go to “About this Mac” or use the system profiler. However, very rarely…
Installing Rails & MySQL On Mac OS X
First, isntall MySQL package installer from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html#downloads DON’T DOWNLOAD THE 64-BIT VERSION!!! You must download the 32-bit version even if…
Emulated ruby tags (ERB) tags
Some handy information about working with those less-than-percent sign things that appear in Emulated Ruby, or .rhtml files. example what…