I’ve been doing a lot of data clean up recently and writing quick Ruby tools that parse array’s of data hashes to produce SQL statements that can be...

Wow… its been a while since I’ve written anything on here. Christmas was time out with the family and then the year started with a big project, but...

A while ago I was involved in a project that wanted to convert a legacy CakePHP (v1.3) app into a Rails app. One of the problems we had to solve was...

Over the last year I’ve gradually pushed myself towards Vim and can now say I’m a complete convert. I generally live inside Vim as much as possible...

This weekend I attended Ruby Manor, a community driven conference, and while it is targeted at the Ruby community, the chosen talks covered an eclectic...

I write most, if not all, of my client side code in Coffeescript now. While thats fine in Rails, which has a great asset management system, in other...

This is a task I add to my capistrano recipes to ensure that the branch being deployed is always pushed to the remote prior to deploy

task :push do

I use Git Flow and Capistrano Multistage to manage deployment of my web apps, which means I can be deploying lots of different branches to our test...

I only just came across this the other day, so other people using Ruby, at least those new to it, may not know this either.

What’s irb? (Just in case...

Every time I come to format a date as a string in Ruby I spend 10 minutes looking up the tokens to get the formatting right. They just don’t seem to...

One of the things some people don’t know to do when they grab an open source Ruby on Rails app from Github (or elsewhere) is to change the secret token...

There are all sorts of ways you could set up a sitemap for your rails 3.1 application.

If you want to add urls dynamically, from blog posts for example...

This may seem like a pretty unlikely situation, but occasionally you may need to recreate all records in a particular table, and you want it done via...