where form meets function

Download the trendy gem, or visit the github for trendy. — I’ve made another gem! It’s called Trendy, and it is a simple wrapper for the Twitter Search API, but the only the part of it that concerns trending topics. I’ve initially made it pretty simple, so I was able to learn a lot about [...]

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Download the gem here (gemcutter.org) Visit the GitHub source here (github.com) — I’ve finally created a gem for Ruby on Rails apps. It’s called YamlSeeder, and its at version 0.0.1, naturally. YamlSeeder takes foxy-fixture-like YAML files and seeds them into your Rails app, using ActiveRecord. Why I Made It Originally, I stored all my seed [...]

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I love Ruby on Rails, it’s so cool.  It’s elegant, and it’s so easy to get started creating a functional website.  However, the development of the framework moves far too fast.  As a result, documentation become out-of-date fast.  This makes it incredibly hard to follow any sort of tutorial, blog post, or advice given in [...]

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