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Using the Rails logger outside of models and controllers
You can use the Rails logger outside of Rails models in at least version 2.3.X and up of Rails. You might be used to doing the following in your models or controllers:
logger.info "Some debugging info I want to see in my development log."
If you make a regular...
Read More Getting RSpec and TextMate to play nice
Elijah Miller has a great blog post on getting TextMate and RSpec to play nicely together. This is pretty useful for just running specific spec files. Also, did you know you can get TextMate to automatically recognize spec files by naming them with the .spec extension and RSpec...
Read More Microsoft deems Ruby on Rails a competitor
Numerous commercial software vendors offer competing software applications for connectivity (both Internet and intranet), security, hosting, and e-business servers. System Center competes with server management and server virtualization platform providers, such as BMC, CA, Inc., Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and VMWare in the management of information technology infrastructures. Forefront...
Read More Receiving Email with Rails
This article originally appeared in the first issue of Rails Magazine. It is reproduced here not quite verbatim with a couple of corrections and additions.
Photo from esparta on Flickr.
Introduction
Receiving email is a great way to add functionality to your application. This is one area, though, that is not...
Read More 32 Rack Resources to Get You Started
Rack
What the heck is Rack and why is it getting so much press lately? Well, from it's tag-line: "Rack provides an minimal interface between webservers supporting Ruby and Ruby frameworks."
But what does that mean? Prior to Rack if you wanted to interface with Mongrel or Thin you had to...
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