Many people are complaining about Rails and Ruby documentation (well, read what WhyTheLuckyStiff has to say about DjangoBook, and all comments there). I agree. Let’s take form_tag in it’s new form (for 1.2 release). From official documentation (it is hard to give link, since it is to some frame, and may change, so if this …
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Virtual Ruby – finally?
On WhyTheLuckyStiff’s blog I found info on merging YARV to Ruby. YARV it is acronym for Yet Another Ruby Virtual Machine. Nice to know, that finally path to make Ruby programs faster is becoming reality. However YARV needs support from community. It is developed by one person, and if merge with Ruby should end well, …
RHTML syntax file for JOE – update
I have updated syntax file for JOE, to color .rhtml templates. It now looks much better, when rails code appears inside HTML tags. It still has some issues (like going nuts, when adding to _erbout with concatenation symbol (<<). Maybe other time :)) Download it from http://nhw.pl/download/rhtml.jsf
Does Rails reload all in development mode?
In many places You can find info that Rails in development mode checks whether files with application were modified and in such case reloads them. That way You can test always latest version of application. This is not correct, when You think Rails reloads whole application. Reloaded can be content from app directory. I did …
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Google Maps API – setCenter is crucial
I have just learned two things about Google Maps API. First, that setCenter method MUST be called just after map creation. Second one, that map has to be contained in div HTML tag. Without that (second thing), in IE You got strange erorr during using such a map (well it is just not usable). It …