April 2008
45 posts
“This would be suitable for companies offering a suite of products, like...”
– Software as a Service Rails Kit | Rails Kits
Finally, someone writing premade software in Rails that’s suitable for 37signals
[zing!]
celeretaudax: so has anyone created a threaded comment system with rails before
rsl: celeretaudax: rails isn't thread safe [zing!]
“Any time that RubyGems is used in RadRails, upon startup it will check the...”
– Aptana Forums :: Running test modifies gem sources
aka How to Break Yr Newbie Customer’s World without Them Even Knowing It
Failed attempt at humor →
If you can’t stand up, dont.
“Saying “Rails doesn’t scale” is like saying “my car...”
– I’m Going To Scale My Foot Up Your Ass - Ted Dziuba
eggie5: what's the opposite of this: helper :all # include all helpers, all the time
rsl: that line commented out.
SeniorKid: hadees: the company where I work had some sort of trauma with a given plug in, and the senior programmer required me not to use any
njero: One time I ate a cheese sandwich and it wasn't very good, now I require that no one eats cheese sandwiches around me
CNN Shirt: Ruby on Rails scales Mt. Everest →
Web 2.0 Resume →
An “online resume written in modern Web 2.0style using Ruby on Rails”.
irb.no : railswoohoo.com →
Does it even matter what it says at this point? Really?
Welcome to Web Twenny, Population You
yaroslav: i just have received a best description of web 2.0 from one girl
yaroslav: Loser Generated Content
“Sorry bro, if u only dont like it, i will never paste it again. I just want help...”
– Ruby Forum
Note to readers: just because you decide you want to give away illegal PDFs for free doesn’t mean they’re actually free books.
“using windows every once in a while is kind of cozy, though”
– leethal in #ruby-lang
hoopy: are there books out covering rails 2.x?
hoopy: it's changed quite a bit since i was using it at 1.3
“is this the ruby on rails room?”
– myth1618 in [you guessed it] #rubyonrails
[3: 27pm] backz joined the chat room.
backz: How I clear and reatribute associations in Active Record? obj.assocs.clear and obj.assocs
[3: 29pm] backz left the chat room.
Fuck you pastie →
“lifo: what do you know about AR?”
– Troll king _codepoet_ on #rubyonrails
FUD FTW →
“i think we should have a comp to come up with a ruby joke of the day”
– invalidrecord on #rubyonrails
Sometimes, the jokes just write themselves.
There Is No Context for Just Not Understanding...
nike234: my code doesnt seem to be working: validates_uniqueness_of :email, :scope => :created_on
nike234: shouldnt that limit emails to unique by created_on date
rsl: that seems like a really really really stupid thing to scope on.
rsl: no
rsl: it scopes to the exact [milli]second there.
rsl: so pretty much every email is going to be valid.
nike234: no
rsl: lol
nike234: u dont get context so dont infer
rsl: kk
rsl: sorry. i thought you were the one with the problem. my bad.
nike234: anyway... seems to not be working
nike234: i can enter the email multiple times on same day
If You Can't Be Original, At Least Troll with...
ljlolel: rails does not support view subdirectories, is that right?
rsl: ljlolel: why would you need view subdirectories?
ljlolel: rsl: to organize lots of views
rsl: fail.
ljlolel: ?
rsl: i would have accepted "i don't" as a correct answer.
ljlolel: wow, rails is a ghetto
ljlolel: let me get this straight, I have a lot of partials I want to organize logically, and rails is too dumb to support view sub-subdirectories?
rsl: ljlolel: yes. go away.
The Early Onset Smell of Trouble
Linux_cat joined the chat room.
Linux_cat: afternoon guys
Linux_cat: im your latest noob!
“can someone give me an example of what the view would like when implementing...”
– trav_15 on #rubyonrails
“hello, is it possible to do an INSERT IGNORE (Mysql) AR?”
– piclez41 on #rubyonrails
“say I’ve got a bunch of after_update callbacks… is there an easy way...”
– cratchit on #rubyonrails
kazim59: What's the difference between before_save, after_save, before_create and after_create? I'd like to set a record's strength value whenever it is saved in database (create or update)...
cmaggard: kazim59: *_create is only called when the record is brand new and doesn't exist in the database yet
kazim59: cmaggard: alright,.. and the distinction of before_ and after_?
I do feel scaffold is a bit broken →
Because sleeping dogs should awaken and dead horses beaten.
Question to David Heinemeier Hansson →
Meta Idiot →
Super Awesome Method
FordCortina: what do ruby programmers call a method that takes a list arguments?
Skiz: "a method that takes a list of arguments"
“Truthfully, rails is snubbing all environments. From my experience, it should be...”
– Commenter Mich on Riding Rails: Why Git won’t mean Rails snubs Windows
“we know shitloads about rails, you should listen to what we have to tell you...”
– leethal on #rubyonrails
“Is it possible to integrate Php backend with RoR frontend?”
– Ruby on Rails Talk
ryancoughlin: rsl, any idea why I dont have my mysql.sock
rsl: dryer ate it.
“The only guiding principle is FUD (Fast Useful Development), but you get to...”
– Announcing Ruby on Crack | Zen and the Art of Programming
[ANN] Ruby on Crack →
The second post.