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Archive for August, 2006

      

Set base path for Rails app

After a bit of searching, I finally figured out how to force Rails to use a particular base path when generating url via any of the various methods that pass through “url_for.” Add the following line to your environment.rb file:

ActionController::AbstractRequest.relative_url_root = “/[basepath]“

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006. Posted in Ruby on Rails | 4 Comments »>

Squidly Diddly, reprise

After a brief look at my logs tonight, I discovered that I’m the 3rd hit on a Google search for “Squidly Diddly”, thanks to this post — which actually has nothing to do with the cartoon.
I love the weird thing they call the Internet.

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006. Posted in Misc | No Comments »>

Drupal crash course

I’ve embarked on a self-led crash course in Drupal the last few days. I’ve looked at it before over the years, but never seriously and never behind-the-scenes.
My neighborhood HOA is in need of a new community website in a bit of rush, as the current one is dying a painful death due to neglect. [...]

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006. Posted in Drupal | 1 Comment »>

Wordpress “last year” listing

Something I had setup in Conversant and missed in Wordpress is the “Last year” listing, which has now been added to the sidebar on this site. Briefly shows 5 topics on the blog from one year ago at this time. This is actually my first WordPress coding, so I don’t know if it’s [...]

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006. Posted in WordPress | No Comments »>

The wayback machine, sort of

I’m writing an application in Servoy, which in many ways is a very nice database RAD tools. Leverages some of the nice things about Filemaker, without many of it’s failings, over a database agnostic JDBC layer.
That said, it rather pathetically relies on Java’s html renderer to handle internal HTML rendering. Which means I’m [...]

Monday, August 14th, 2006. Posted in Servoy | No Comments »>

Rails 1.1.6

If you run a Rails site, and haven’t yet, update to Rails 1.1.6. Now.

Friday, August 11th, 2006. Posted in Ruby on Rails | No Comments »>

Help is on the way

We’ve extended an offer for a new IT Manager at work to an impressive young guy who I think will work out well. This job search has been the primary reason I’ve remained in a holding pattern on getting the consulting business up and running, as I’ve agreed to stay on for approximately a [...]

Friday, August 11th, 2006. Posted in Work | No Comments »>