by Michiel on October 15, 2009
Today was another day of the first day of the first release of a new web application. After prototyping the new project for a few days, the time had come that we’d finally show the first part to the rest of the team members and the client. Currently, it’s the least thing I like about [...]
by Michiel on August 28, 2009
Beanstalkd is a queueing deamon that let’s you queue messages from one client and let them be processed by another client. It has features like burrying messages for later usage if the command at the first time can’t be executed and more stuff like that. We use it for queuing things in Ruby on Rails [...]
by Michiel on June 18, 2009
Here are four gems and Rails plugins I generally like to use to build Rails applications. Use them to support authentication, internationalization, haml/sass and model avatars in your new Rails app. Blueprint CSS framework, haml and Sass If you’re still using erb for your standard views you are old school. You should use Compass, the [...]
by Michiel on June 11, 2009
Tonight I was working on an old Rails app which I upgraded to Rails 2.3.2. All code went fine and on my local Mac installation all worked perfect. When I tried to deploy to the live environment I got the following strange error: undefined method `alias_method_chain’ for I18n::Backend::Simple:Class At first, I thought this had something [...]