Category Archives: rails

To Tweet or Not To: @What I Follow

Is it cool to be on twitter? I end up reading about facebook and Twitter more than I need to for social or work reasons. However, it will surprising to know that is more for intellectual curiosity for the underlying … Continue reading

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Signalling on Rails: Tips on Exception Notifier

When you are developing rails apps and you are hacking your way around, it is fine to get a bunch of errors and screen dump of what went wrong. However, when you start deploying it and want to convince users … Continue reading

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Running Free on Rails: Displaying results of find_by_sql queries

When we construct views of query results using ERb in rails, most of the time we know what we are displaying and how to format it. However, there are a few occasions when we run find_by_sql queries. Even rare are … Continue reading

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Ruby on Rails: Confessions of a Closet Coder

I have been dabbling with Ruby on Rails a little more lately. I have hacked around and figured out solutions for issues that stumped me based on posts from others or from experiments. I will try to catalog some of … Continue reading

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Ruby on Greased Rails: Adventures in Rapid Application Development

Even though I work in a chip company, I believe in tools that work on the web so creating, updating and maintaining data is a collaborative process (and less personal overhead ). Having a spouse who works in web tech … Continue reading

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