I was getting a little fed up touching every single directory that was empty after I created a new Rails app and than pushing it to a git repo and having it not include the empty directories. So, I created a short quick script to help me out. I didn’t test it more than a  Read more »

Trying to make sense of the Google App Engine and what possibilities it holds I have compiled a list of what seems to be good, bad, and what I’m not quite sure about. First, what seems bad: Some Bad Things You can not access the file system. You can not run background processes, not even  Read more »

Have you ever wanted to create a form with the nice ActiveRecord Validations, but not use a database or ActiveRecord model? Like if you wanted to just have the result of the form emailed. An example might be a contact form or a special inquiry form that requires a name, an email, and perhaps a  Read more »

Have you ever just wanted to select some text and wrap it in a tag instead of jumping to the beginning and end of the lines? Or perhaps you get tired of remembering to close your tags as you go and you wish it was done for you. Both are possible, you just have to  Read more »

I did not say this previously, but I am trying to compile a list of posts for picking up TextMate keystrokes. The goal is to NOT use the mouse or at least less often. No matter how simple the tip, the idea is to use that tip or tips for that day to help get  Read more »

Here is a TextMate tip when you are editing a stylesheet and need some assistance with colors: Shift +  + C It will open up a color picker as shown.  I hope this is helpful. Please recommend me on Working with Rails:http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9142-chris-kaukis  0

Do you loath firing up a whole separate application just to look up some simple data in your database? Or perhaps not in the mood to rip out some simple SQL towards the end of a day from your tired hands and fingers? Try this TextMate tip:  Shift + Ctrl + Q 0

div#post-323 .entry pre { margin-bottom: 1.0em; } div#post-323 .entry h3 { margin-bottom: 1.0em !important; font-weight: bold !important; font-size: 1.2em !important; } There are a couple ways to get the latest and greatest Merb 0.9.0 (dev) installed and running. In this post I will go over the following points: 1. Installing git 2. Getting the latest  Read more »

Rob flew me down for acts_as_conference (I’m in Oklahoma). This was my first developer conference of any kind or type ever. I was excited and thought the conference was a complete success. The following are a list of mental snippets I have compiled. Charles Nutter and Evan Phoenix: I got to talk 1-on-1 with both  Read more »

Here is a short tutorial about getting up and running with the latest Merb (currently 0.5.3) and DataMapper (currently 0.3.0). Here is the summary of what we will need: datamapper – A lightweight ORM do_mysql – DataObjects MySQL driver used by DataMapper merb – The up and coming Ruby Framework merb_datamapper – Plugin for DataMapper  Read more »