Posts Tagged “Rails”

uninitialized constant Rack::Test (NameError)

by sylv3rblade on April 4, 2011

Cucumber-rails 0.4.0 was released for Rails 3.x. If you try to use it with anything below that (Rails 2.3.x), you’ll encounter the error: Is the rack-test driver missing? Nope. Well you still need that installed but the root cause of (…)

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Resize or reprocess all Paperclip attachments

by sylv3rblade on March 23, 2011

I’ve been using the Paperclip plugin/ gem for image attachment in several of my apps and I’ve encountered a scenario wherein I needed to change one of the styles configured in the model to accommodate the client’s request. At that (…)

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Hurrah! A new server

by sylv3rblade on January 20, 2011

I decided to move this blog together into a new VPS to host my personal rails projects . Now, I’m not sure if this’ll be a permanent thing since I sort of jumped on the offer upon impulse but so (…)

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Installing the mysql gem on OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

by sylv3rblade on April 21, 2010

The first thing on my developer itinerary after getting my MacBook Pro is to install my development tools. That includes upgrading the ruby and rails gem versions packaged with OS X 10.6 and installing Xcode which is included on Snow (…)

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On Rails and Loving it :D

by sylv3rblade on October 27, 2009

I started out my official, programming career as a Java developer for my current company.  At the time, the design team was moving their development interests from purely desktop applications to a a more web-eccentric playing field, ergo web-based applications.  (…)

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