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Posts Tagged: rails


3
Feb 08

Building the MacPorts MySQL gem on OS X

I’ve been running with the Rails MySQL adapter for a while now after failing to build the native MySQL gem under Leopard. The problem, I thought, was that I’m using the Macports MySQL, and it turns out I was right. If you attempt to build the MySQL gem and you get an error like this:

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12
Nov 07

TextMate Rails Cheat Sheet

This is actually a duplication of this, but when I already have a million tabs open during the course of development, I’d rather not open another with a big fat Flash applet in it. So I created myself the following text only version. The characters I’ve used aren’t perfect, I’ll fix them when I get a chance..

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8
Nov 07

Removing plugins installed as svn:externals

I just had a problem with my svn repository after a couple of plugins I had installed as svn:externals (./script/plugin install -x http://blahblah) were no longer required and I wanted to remove them. Not something I’ve done before, but I found a handy article here, and all you have to do is this:

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20
Sep 07

Dates and times in fixtures

Just a micro tip. If you’re inserting dates and/or times into your database via fixtures whether for testing or to load initial data, it’s not enough just to specify the date. This won’t work:

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8
Jun 07

Embedding SWF content with Ruby on Rails

A question regarding the embedding of SWF content came up on the Ruby on Rails mailing list. In this instance, the problem was related to the tags used to embed a SWF in Internet Explorer and Mozilla browsers. Internet Explorer requires an <object> tag, while Mozilla (and most other) browsers require an <embed> tag.

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