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• How To Deploy Rails with SVN and Capistrano to a Secondary Domain on TextDrive I just deployed my first rails app to one of my secondary domains on TextDrive’s shared hosting space. If that sounds like a recipe for disaster….you’re right! While Rails is a great development tool, there’s lots of work to do in simplifying, stabilizing, and documenting the deployment process. The app in question is very, very tiny for
• Learning the Rails I’m taking a week off of active programming to focus on better understanding 3 aspects of Rails development I’ve been wistfully ignoring: Migrations, Testing, and Deployment. There’s a tiny, fun little project I’m using as the venue for these subjects. One week from today (May 1) is what I’m giving myself on this effort. Any longer
• Ruby on Rails is Agile Web Development  If you’ve been following along for a while, you know I’m on a quest to learn Ruby and specifically - Ruby on Rails. Back in May I started on Sam’s Teach Yourself Ruby in 21 Days. After the fourth time through day 15, I knew I needed some other assistance. The inspiration to find the other
• How to Decode TinyURLs with Ruby  def reverse_tinyurl(tinyurl)   require ‘open-uri’   require ‘net/http’   url = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(tinyurl)).to_hash['location'].to_s end This should also work for any url that is a known redirect whether it be a tinyurl.com, urltea.com, rubyurl.com, or what have you.
• Learning Ruby in 3 Weeks  A year ago I dropped REALbasic. Since then, I’ve struggled to get my head around Cocoa and Objective-C. With the recent hype around Ruby on Rails, I started looking at Ruby and found a Ruby/Objective-C bridge. To me, this means there’s a huge potential to have tightly-integrated desktop and web-based applications in a single, easy-to-maintain