Ruby on Rails

Expirations

September 30, 2008

So I’ve been thinking lately that I should scrap this blog. I so rarely use it any more - instead using my work blog, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and UncleTomCobleyAndAll.com. Most of the traffic is to a few old posts, whether it’s to the simply_helpful plugin whose functions are now built-in to Rails 2.x, or long-forgotten […]

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Eager loading objects in a Rails has_many :through association

January 4, 2007

I’m still working on the Rails application that was the source for this tutorial — which loads of developers who I really respect keep linking to, so I must have done something right there! Anyway, I’m going to blog this bit of code in the hope that it will help me remember it. As stated […]

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New Rails feature: simply_helpful

September 4, 2006

UPDATE: Thanks to everybody who’s linking to this blog post, especially the mighty DHH himself. It’s worth pointing out that simplyhelpful development is proceeding apace. Some of the bugs mentioned have been fixed; there are additional helpers that aren’t covered here; and, as a plugin that’s very, very new, simplyhelpful may well change at short […]

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Rails: ActiveRecord goes :through

January 6, 2006

Sad geek that I am, I’ve fallen a little bit in love with Ruby on Rails, the application development framework that’s ideal for building database-based web applications. While Rails is relatively new – version 1.0 was released just last month – there are exciting things just waiting round the corner. I’m in the process of […]

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