Installing Facebooker for Rails
WARNING: These instructions are for Facebook version 1 (not Facebooker2). Since last year, I have moved toward using a different…
Rails Version History Chart
This is a work in progress. Rails Version Release month 2.0.0 Dec 2007 2.0.1 Dec 2007 2.0.2 Dec 2007 2.1.0…
Ruby Date & Time, format codes for the strftime method
strftime() turns a Date or DateTime into nicely formatted output. The following table shows the code you can use to…
Git primer
The is the very bare-bones basics of git. First, I am staring by assuming that someone else has already setup…
facebooker install, undefined method `rewind’ for #
If you are getting this error after a Rails 2.3.3 update undefined method `rewind’ for #<TCPSocket:0x3631e58> Try updating your version…
Advanced CSS techniques
A few CSS techniques used by the pros.
“XML file does not appear to have any style information” when loading RSS in Firefox
Getting RSS feeds to work right; Firefox error message “This XML file does not appear to have any style information…
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…
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…