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multi-language text field

kiwinewt — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:34:39 +0000

Today I asked in #rubyonrails: How can I have a model with a text field and have that text field in multiple languages?

Epic thanks to Radar for the answer:

http://frozenplague.net/2009/11/scoping-by-locales/

Slices anyone?

kiwinewt — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:20:30 +0000

I know I always promise to do update posts, but this isn’t one of those.

Just over the last few days, I have been setting up a new server. Over on SliceHost. Yeah. I have found many issues running my Ruby on Rails apps over on DreamHost (like the fact that DreamHost won’t give you enough memory to run more than one).

So I have now moved WebToday across, which is good. Getting the emails working correctly was a whole nother kettle of fish though! At least now I have found out how to create a mailbox that forwards straight on (so it can be used for sending mail, but all received mail goes elsewhere).

There are a couple of things I have noticed about SliceHost which I really like – 24/7 live chat with them, articles on how to do the basics (setup a mail server, for example) and the ability to clone a slice. This means that when the number of emails and websites gets too much, I can clone the slice, remove the web role from one and the mail role from the other (and same thing for the database).

Anyway, enough love story for now, back to moving domains across…

Why

kiwinewt — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:58:59 +0000

Why does RoR not support multi-table inheritance? Theres no way at all (apart from an obscure plugin that noone knows how to use) to get it working without writing SQL views and such, which just gets messy.

It should not be so hard!

Lets See…

kiwinewt — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:28:34 +0000

Currently working on a project that I really dont want to be doing any more on now…
So, from Procrastinators-r-us:
user = User.new(:username => “Frankie”, :password => “Fishy”, :password_confirmation => “Fishy”, :email => “frankie@fishlovers.com”, :first_name => “Frank”, :last_name => “EnStein”)

RoR – Reloading Classes

kiwinewt — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:17:03 +0000

For future reference…

With the later version of Rails, you can reload your models and controllers with the following command. Be sure to recreate any instances of your models as they will still be using the old class

reload!

RoR

kiwinewt — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:27:07 +0000

As many will know, I have started on my final project for my BICT – Working in Ruby on Rails.

Its Fun (Yes, with a Capital F)

Its interesting

It is easy to transition to

The only problem Im having is working out where to put stuff, and how to integrate the AJAX side of it… :S

In other news, I have also got a Java app on the side, for which I have been supplied an EEEPC for the platform. I have to say… OMFG ITS TINY. Will post a photo of it next to my current laptop tonight