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• How To: Build a Wiki with Ruby on Rails - Part 2 Back in Part 1 of Building a Wiki with Ruby on Rails, we built the core wiki engine. Time to add some syntax formatting. These days, I’m pretty enamored of Haml, it’s more like HTML (unlike many other formatting engines) and it’s fast to write (unlike many other formatting engines). 1. Install Haml Haml installs as a gem…1 gem
• Restarting Rails with ‘Address Already in Use’ iTerm crashed on my this morning taking down my development Rails process. Now, I’m busy tailing cullect.com’s production.log and listening to some podcasts so I didn’t want to restart1 A little Googling found John Nunemaker’s year-old, “Oops I did it again” post. His tips worked. An I’m rewriting the following for Future Reference2: $ ps aux | grep
• REST-less with link_to This week, I file my first major complaint with Rails. I was innocently running tests and tweakings some views - when I discovered function that should work longer did. A little background, my app is filled with routes the make the URLs more contextually appropriate and memorable than the standard REST URL construction. If you have any
• Passing Sessions and Referers in Rails Functional Tests So, you’ve set up your Rails app to present different views to authenticated people verses non. Now, how do you test functionality for the authenticated people? Seems silly to have your tests sign in before checking whatever it is you want them to check. Well, pass the session data in the test as a hash. Turns
• Locally Running Multiple Rails Apps on OS X There’s a couple of place describing how to support multiple Rails apps locally. They were either unavailable or way more complicated than I’d like (the HowtoDeployMoreThanOneRailsAppOnOneMachine at the RubyonRails wiki was both). Here’s how I was able to get multiple Rails apps running under Apache on OS X 10.4 Tiger. Created 2 Rails apps; AppOne and