Posted by Jim Morris on 2026-01-20 17:37:59 +0000
I wrote the blog engine this blog is hosted on in 2009, that is 23 years ago as I write this.
It was running a very old version of Ruby (1.8 as I recall) running on a very old version of Ubuntu server, and was ported to Rails3 from merb. It ran all that time, but finally started to show its age (as we all do!).
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Or how to get Rails 3.1.1 assets in vendor/assets to work in
production.
Posted by Jim Morris on 2010-12-18 01:04:06 +0000
This one does not seem to be documented, and I just got bit.
After porting my
blog engine to Rails
3, I noticed that after a while comments were being rejected with an
ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken error.
Posted by Jim Morris on 2007-08-07 23:53:09 +0000
In my latest web project I potentially have a lot of boolean preferences, which I use for enabling or disabling various email notifications to users.
Rather than having to add a migration everytime I want to add a new
preference, I thought I would use the composed_of feature in my model
and compose the boolean preferences from a bitvector. That way I can
simply modify my model to add new preferences rather than add new
columns to the database.
Posted by Jim Morris on 2007-07-28 14:23:07 +0000
A pattern I find very helpful is to find all the actions in a controller and apply a test to all those actions.
For instance this is useful for automatically testing all actions are protected from unauthorized access when using a login system.
... Show more ...Posted by Jim Morris on 2007-07-06 18:22:57 +0000
For my social networking site snowdogsr.us I decided to escape all user input that gets displayed. I know people like to trick out their profiles with HTML but I want to avoid the various hacks that it allows.
So thinking I had done a good job of using h everywhere I output user input fields, I decided to see if I could actually test this with RSpec view tests.
... Show more ...Posted by Jim Morris on 2007-06-26 15:14:04 +0000
This one is so blatantly obvious it bit me in the Butt at 4am this morning when I had to get up and fix it! I am so embarrassed, luckily no private data got out, as no-one has entered any private data yet.
I used the script/generate scaffold_resource to get started, and I left in those nice format.xml things in, thinking I may use them in the future. For the most part this is not a problem, but one of my controllers is a profile table. Much of the data in there is public anyway so no big deal, but a few columns are private data like email, date of birth, phone numbers etc. These are specifically private and not viewable publicly. This is enforced but not having a view that shows any of that stuff to the general public.
... Show more ...Posted by Jim Morris on 2007-06-23 14:02:49 +0000
This is a simple one.
I use the excellent acts_as_taggable plugin, and I wanted to have a
tag cloud like everyone does.
Posted by Jim Morris on 2007-06-23 13:49:25 +0000
In part 1 I outlined my project to implement snowdogsr.us a social networking site for snow dogs.
I am pleased to announce that version 1 of this site is up, however I had to make some trade-offs to get it up this far. I needed to prioritize my goals and just get the essentials implemented.
... Show more ...Posted by Jim Morris on 2007-05-31 13:27:46 +0000
I have been using JEdit more and more for my rails development, I have gone back and forth between it and Epsilon, however JEdit is starting to win out. I have upgraded to the latest pre version (4.3pre9).
I have modified a number of macros to do my bidding, and I dumped the Ruby Plugin because I kept running into things it did that I disliked, and it still seems a little buggy.
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