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• 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
• Anyone Know How to Read the Treo PhoneCallDB.pdb? Before I got the Treo, I had a SonyEricsson that worked real nicely with BluePhoneElite and my PowerBook. Sure, Caller ID and answering the phone from the laptop was nice, but what I really miss is the integration w/ iCal. Since the Treo keeps a record of the phone calls and their duration and backs
• Framing Rails Tests: Tests are Requirements I’ve ignored Rails Tests for too long. In fact, I’ve skipped over Test chapter in Agile Web Development with Rails in both the first and second editions. After fighting with the same bug over and over again, I knew now was the time for tests. On the surface, tests seemed very un-DRY1 - like I’m writing
• 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
• MySQL on OS X Reinstall Reminders First off, if you can avoid reinstalling MySQL on OS X - by all means do. Whatever the reason is that you want to do a reinstall, it’s not a good one1. Just buck up and work around whatever issue you have. It’s not as bad as what follows. Let’s say you decide to reinstall anyway.