acts_as_state_machine – state is always nil
If you are using the acts\_as\_state\_machine plugin to manage the state of your object keep this in mind: If you are going to have an object like an order or something similar…
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Shoulda Doesn’t like ‘Status’
One of the models in a project I am working on right now ends in ‘status’. Rails handles that just find but in my tests I started noticing an odd error:
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Shoulda, assert_sent_email and Unreal Users
I have been banging my head against a problem in my testing. Using the UI everything worked as expected, but my tests were failing when I tried to see if emails were being sent in…
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Tip for Testing Email with Ruby on Rails and Shoulda
Shoulda comes with a great method for testing email called ‘assert\_sent\_email’. (If you try it and get a method missing error update Shoulda. Not that anyone wouldn’t know to…
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Secrets and Inspirations
I have an embarrassing secret. I love cycling (not the embarassing secret unless you count running around in skin tight shorts as embarassing). No, the big secret is that when I…
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iPhone Apps, meh..
I was pretty excited to see the new app store show up on iTunes. As a faithful fan of everything Apple I was looking forward to this big event. Now? Meh, I could take it or leave…
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ActiveSalesforce and Ruby on Rails > 2.1
We have to do an integration with Saleforce for a Rails project we are working on. I keep getting this error: The :dependent option expects either :destroy or :delete (:nullify) I…
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Checkbox list in Ruby on Rails using HABTM
Checkboxes are one of those things that look easy and should be easy, but they aren’t always easy. I needed a solution that could create a checkbox list of languages that a user…
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Riding to Work Again
With all the moving around and general craziness at work I haven’t been able to ride to work as much. I finally managed to ride in again. Regardless of whatever else happens today…
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Snakes in the Grass
Last week right before we left for Yellowstone I went out to work on the sprinklers for the garden. I threw on some flip flops because that was easy. While walking around I felt…
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Scalr – Scalable Hosting Framework for Amazon Web Services
Amazon’s web services business has sparked a number of business opportunities. Using EC2 and S3 is not especially easy for a beginner, but scalable web architectures aren’t a…
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Yellowstone 3
Day 3. More driving. Always driving. We went to Tower and watched more water fall off rocks. That seems to happen a lot around here. There were a couple of colorful characters…
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Yellowstone 2
Sequels are never as good as the original so keep in mind that this one won’t be as good as the last one which wasn’t that great. I met more rangers today. Two of them seemed like…
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Yellowstone
We went to the happiest place on earth, now we’re off on a family vacation to the stinkiest place on Earth – Yellowstone. Like the Earth’s anus this place belches the nastiest gas…
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51Weeks at ICLS
Last year for our open ed conference here at Utah State I built an application called 51weeks to help preserve the presentations and to help people interact. Tomorrow it will be…
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Eat and Ride
One of my favorite rides is Blacksmith Fork Canyon. If I leave from my house the loop is a little bit more than 40 miles most of which is in the canyon. During the summer it is a…
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Ruby on Rails – render :action doesn’t run action
I want to be cool like everyone else so I use a REST methodology for most of my Rails controllers these days. I wasn’t ever quite sure how my views managed to maintain values for…
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Ajax calls using jQuery in Ruby on Rails
jQuery is the hot javascript library and it is small and it is cooler than Prototype, the default library that comes with Ruby on Rails. Ergo I plugged it in and pulled out…
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I’m Just so Happy
I haven’t been saying much lately. Nobody listens anyway. After years of promising my wife we would go on vacation to Disneyland with the kids, we finally made it. Some people…
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Watching for Signs
I wrote this on May 11th but never got around to posting it: We took the kids to Thanksgiving Point yesterday to look at the gardens. They had a great time. Whenever we travel…