For many Americans, the 4th of July reminds them of their freedom. Since I didn’t grow up in the US, for the 4th of July was a great occasion for a BBQ with friends and enjoying fireworks. However, things changed this year when I decided to leave my full time job as Rails developer to become a consu...

If you haven’t check out the Globalite sample app yet, here are some screenshots. Here is the French yml file used for the UI translation/localization: Here is the code to display a select box so the user can choose the publication date: So you know, <code><%= :published_date.l %> </code> is the sam...

Today I updated Globalite, refactoring the code and fixing some issues. I added a bunch of aliases since I was tired of typing: <code>Globalite.current_language = :fr </code> I shortened it to <code>Globalite.language = :fr </code> But the old method is still available so it won’t break your code ;)...

The Rails hackfest is a chance for people to be rewarded for contributing source code to Ruby On Rails. The value of their contributions are accumulated and the results charted. I’m honored to be listed as contributor number 4 few days before the end of the month. I know I got lucky with some of my ...

Globalite contributor: Marcus Derencius just submitted a Portuguese translation for Rails. Your application can now speak Portuguese thanks to Globalite and Marcus :)

Globalite contributor: Marcus Derencius just submitted a Portuguese translation for Rails. Your application can now speak Portuguese thanks to Globalite and Marcus :)

Quick note to let you know that I updated mimetype_fu to actually get the mime type of a file using the file command on mac and linux. I still didn’t post an example since I’m planning on writing a patch for attachment_fu.

mimetype_fu/ is a new plugin I just wrote. It’s simple and it can be really useful if you need to get the mime type of a file already on your server. During one of my project, I add to migrate old assets from a legacy system to a new Rails app. The new app uses attachment fu and even though techno w...

Recently I helped few people moving to Rails Edge and start using RSpec. I realized that I learned few tricks and even if for me everything seemed quite simple, things are not that simple when you recently started with Rails. This would work on Mac and Linux, sorry Windows users, you’ll have to slig...

The guys at integrum launched their resources site as promised. — CHECK IT OUT — There’s not much there yet but I would recommend to subscribe to their feed!

I’m quite glad to let you know that my first patch made it to Rails Edge. UPDATE: Ryan Daigle covered the new added features in his blog How cool is that? That’s a great achievement that I owe to josh Knowles and Josh Susser Josh Knowles and Matt Heidemann from Integrum started working on rake_tasks...

Josh knowles and Matt Heidemann from Integrum and I released few weeks a go a cool plugin called rake_tasks The thing is that the plugin was getting too big when I started hacking the MySQL adapter and adding utf-8 support we figured out it was smarter to split the plugin and create db_tasks and svn...

I’ve been recently slightly annoyed by the lack of simple yet powerful internationalization/localization plugin for Rails. It seems like the only real solution out there is Globalize However, it’s a heavy, bloated, hard to setup plugin. I might seem to complain, but I’m actually glad that someone ca...

This morning I couldn’t remember how to get an array with only the unique properties of a Model attribute. For instance, I have a User model, and I want to retrieve the list of all my users' cities. I also don’t want to retrieve all the attributes and only the unique rows. in my model: <code>def sel...

I’m working on a Rails project and I need to make sure that our code is compatible with PostgreSQL. I never installed/used before and since I’m lazy and rely on other people knowledge, I decided to install Postgresql using MacPort. It was actually simpler than I expected. I simply followed this post...

DrNic the most famous Australian Rails developer surprisingly doesn’t spend most of his time working on Rails read interview That’s maybe why he recently became so active in the Rails community ( see Magic Multi-Connections, Magic Models, map_by_methods, Gem Generator etc..) Today he released someth...

I recently realized that a lot of people using RSpec didn’t use the great TextMate bundle designed for them. You might not think you need an extra bundle, or maybe you never used a bundle ever and don’t know why you would try one. I’ll try to change your mind, let’s look at some screenshots first: T...

With the recent Buzz around Adobe Apollo I figured out that since I recently switched to Mac and that I didn’t try the latest Flex upgrade, I should try Flex 2.01 for Mac. I really like what Adobe did with Flex, Unit testing, better accessibility, etc… but one thing I regret, it’s getting closer and...

I recently started working on migrating an old PHP based application to a new sexy Rails app. The old model was kind of messy, the usual case of bloated, feature creep app written by many people without any standard conventions. Anyway, I have to migrate users and content from many sites using the l...

UPDATE: Aslak Hellesoy just mentioned in a comment that the trunk version of RSpec bundle for TextMate ( svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rspec/trunk ) doesn’t require the RSpec Gem installed anymore. To install the bundle: <code> cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles/ svn co svn://rubyforge...