With Mac OSX Lion being released recently, I decided to do a clean re-install my development iMac from scratch, rather than doing an upgrade. This offered me the opportunity to fine tune and document my development environment setup. Without further ado, here’s how I set up my environment. I hope it helps any new Lion […]
A few weeks ago I migrated the Labrador Retriever Rescue web site from a shared hosting service at Bluehost to a virtual private server at Linode. My main motivation was to gain an element of control, including managing my Apache configuration, but I was also hoping to gain some performance improvements by getting away from […]
For a long time I’ve been disappointed with the “out of the box” look and feel of a new Rails app: no useful stylesheets whatsoever, just plain unformatted text on a white background. I often like to throw together quick apps to prototype a concept, or even create a long-term app that just doesn’t need […]
Many projects I work on require a user to select dates while entering information into a form. Rails makes it trivial to create date selectors and save the results into models via the date_select form helper. Here’s what it looks like by default: Functional, but hardly friendly to require the user to manipulate three different […]
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