Alex Gorbatchev

I’m getting married in a couple of hours and then off to Europe So I will probably not be posting anything until I get back first week of August.

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Rails

How to put a controller under a SSL subdomain.
HAML 1.7 - a new version of HAML. Now 16 times faster. (via)
Rails Book: Rails Solutions - Ruby on Rails Made Easy.

Ruby

Hash#except.

Web Development

Ruby On Rails [...]

Linotype FontExplorer X is my recent discovery and I find it to be the best font management tool out there. All of the sudden I started getting “xpcom.dll” error on startup. Googling didn’t turn up anything so I spent some time and narrowed down the problem.
The application must be started from its folder, ie C:\Program [...]

After about 1 week of full time Mac use I’ve decided to switch back to PC.
There are two reasons why:
Latest MacBook Pro gets uncomfortably hot. The bottom is literally painful to the touch, and the top left side where hand rests when I type is too warm and causing my hand some uncomfortable pain after [...]

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Rails

Build testing for the rest of us.

Ruby

Viewing Local Gem Documentation.
RSpec Basics - 55 minutes of quality RSpec video from PeepCode.

Web Development

Top 15 iPhone Web Development Resources

Converts a string to a URL style permalink.
class String
def to_permalink
s = self
s = Iconv.iconv(’ascii//ignore//translit’, ‘utf-8′, s).to_s
s.gsub!(/^\W+|\W+$/, ”)
s.gsub!(/\W+/, ‘-’)
s.strip!
s.downcase!
s.squeeze!(’ ‘)
s.gsub(/\ +/, ‘-’)
[...]

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Rails

Hobo migrations - I like! Getting rid of migration files all together and putting it where it belongs - in the model itself.

Web Development

Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone - official docs.

Misc

Code monkey.

Unindenting a block of text involves finding a common minimum indent in every line and removing it. Here’s how I have done it. As with any text processing, the larger the text is, the slower it is.
def unindent_text(src)
indents = []

src.each_line do |line|
indents < < $1.length if not [...]

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Rails

Debugging with ruby-debug - new Railscast.
Developing a Facebook application (via RubyInside)

Web Development

The Underbelly of a Web App Part 2 (part 1 here)

Another great little update to make Noobkit even better!
New features

Source code! Up in the toolbar in the top right corner, look out for the source icon when viewing methods.
Table of content shows up for big pages. Pretty neat, eh?

Improvements

API is now grouped a little bit better.
Examples are colored better and no longer indented randomly.
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