Author Archives: peter

  • 13
  • Jan

Rails I18n and 404/500 Error Pages

If you have a multilingual site it makes sense for your 404 and 500 error pages to be multilingual as well. Rails supports multilinguality by serving up error pages with a path like public/500.sv.html, where sv is the locale. In … Continue reading →

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  • 11
  • Jun

Rails Development Database Setup Without Migrations

I think a lot of Rails developers have been using the db:migrate Rake task to setup new development databases. The problem with this is that over time migrations tend to grow out of sync with the code, especially if you … Continue reading →

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  • 14
  • May

Rails bug fix: ActiveRecord::Base#exists? now compatible with include scopes

I was using a default scope for a model with :include and rder options and ran into an issue with the exists? method. We have now refactored the exists? method to invoke find_initial which handles scopes correctly. Thanks Michael for … Continue reading →

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  • 07
  • May

Rails Gotcha: Global Methods can Cause ActiveRecord Attribute Methods to Never be Defined

I just ran into a sort of edge case gotcha in the interaction between the acts_as_taggable_on Rails plugin and RSpec. It turns out both libraries define a context method. In the RSpec case it is a global method (defined in … Continue reading →

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  • 28
  • Apr

Rails Gotcha: Eager Loading Application Classes to Make STI Work

Recent versions of Rails (2.2 and later I think) will eager load all application Ruby classes when booting up the server. However, because of issues with migrations this is not done if you are executing a Rake task that depends … Continue reading →

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  • 28
  • Apr

New Rails Plugin to shell out with verbose error handling

I was annoyed with the fact that when you use Ruby backticks (i.e. `some_shell_command`) to shell out to an external program and the path to the program is wrong then no exception is raised. In addition, using system and backticks … Continue reading →

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  • 17
  • Mar

Upgrading to Rails 2.3

We just upgraded our app from Rails 2.2.2 to Rails 2.3.2 and were able to get all our tests passing after having ironed out a number of deprecations, upgraded a few plugins, and patched a few others. Here is an … Continue reading →

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  • 06
  • Feb

Rake Tasks for the Translate Plugin

We’ve added two Rake tasks to the Translate plugin. The lost_in_translation rake task helps find I18n keys in lookups in your code that are missing from your default locale YAML file (i.e. config/locales/sv.yml in our case). The merge_keys Rake task … Continue reading →

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  • 21
  • Jan

Translate: New Rails I18n Plugin with a Nice Web UI

Here at Mynewsdesk we are in the midst of internationalizing a fairly big Ruby on Rails application. Sven Fuchs’s I18n Textmate bundle has been a great help in extracting thousands of texts away from our source code and into YAML … Continue reading →

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