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• Rails: Cookies, Frozen Gems, and TextDrive Jon Steinhorst once told me a movies are rewritten from script to shoot, and again from shoot to editing. I spent a good chunk of this week re-writing a Ruby on Rails app to go from development to production. Works fine in development. Not at all in production. The issue was a combination of frozen gems
• The Object-Oriented Thought Process  On my way to better understand object-oriented programming (t d) and thereby check “Learn enough Objective-C to be dangerous” off my ThingsToDo list, I picked up The Object-Oriented Thought Process by Matt Weisfeld. Not having formal training in software engineering, I found the book’s focus on the language-agnostic basics of OO extremely helpful. Here’s what
• Learning Ruby - Day 6  Day 6, How to deal with files and other data streams. What’s a reliable way to get the last item in an array? ask for the -1 item, i.e. array[-1]. Finally, a logical reason to start arrays at 0 rather than 1 - so we can count backwards. Looks like the “then” part of an “if…then” statement
• SSHKeychain.socket Error on Rake Remote:Setup Still working through deploying a Rails app (if you’ve been following along, I got Subversion plugged in yesterday). Today was setting up the deployment by running: rake remote:setup The process kept erroring out saying: No File or Directory - /tmp/501/SSHKeychain.socket Turns out I had a bunch of cruft in ~/.MacOSX/properties.plist. After cutting out the offending xml and restarting. Everything
• Using Names in Rails Routes Instead of IDs I spent tonight cranking through some Ruby on Rails has_many :through association oddities and after pounding my head against the keyboard, I decided to shift gears and figure out Ruby On Rails Routes. By default, the Rails expects ID to be passed in URL strings. But that’s really lame, and passing words is much cooler so,