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I was trying to write a test involving deleted items on a project using acts_as_paranoid (which marks objects with a deleted_at date instead of actually deleting them). When I created a fixture with a deleted_at date set, it turns out that making the fixture retrieval call items(:deleted_item) would fail because internally the fixtures use a [...]
Many people report lost followers on twitter today. Numbers range from a few to hundreds. I seem to have lost about a hundred followers and a hundred from my following list. Hopefully they were all spam bots :-)
Either by accident, or by well crafted maneuver, Twitter changed their look today for only a couple minutes. Most of the tweets I saw were positive or neutral, although there were several naysayers. Personally I think the new design is cleaner, moving navigation to the right, away from the content area so that it’s easier [...]
Ever try to debug a problem and needed to see what was inside the user’s session at the time? If you’re using the cookie session store (Rails 2.x), you can now use this tool to take a look:
http://pastie.org/235017
Simply invoke it like this:
DebugTools.show_session(”your long session id goes in here”)
The code deals with linebreaks automatically, so [...]
Imagine you walk into a room and there is clutter everywhere, things all over the floor, the walls are covered with random artwork hung at every height imaginable. You would start feeling uncomfortable and overloaded very quickly. Yet we do this to our users every day by not paying attention to the very basics.
There are [...]
This is a public service announcement to users of bluehost.com hosting. They store your account password in plain text. During my long drawn out battle where they refused to own up to database problems, one of the support calls resulted in the support woman asking me for my password. When I refused to give it [...]
While twitter is out repairing its architecture, they seem to have turned off the track feature. track used to be an incredibly useful feature that is very well hidden as a twitter command instead of a part of their UI (epic design fail, or maybe they want it this way). Here’s how to use a [...]
When I first got online in 1993, there wasn’t a whole lot to the web. In fact, I remember that year or shortly thereafter, buying a book called the Internet Yellow Pages. This book basically listed all the best sites on the web in something like 300 pages. Imagine how ridiculous this concept is today–yet [...]
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