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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...
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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...
Read More Passenger 2.1.1 and Local Production Environment
If you're on the Passenger 2.1.1 beta and can't figure out why your rails app is going in to the production mode, it's because it sets the RackEnv environment variable production instead of the RailsEnv variable. This is fine on rails 2.3+ apps because they are based on Rack...
Read More Ruby Hash Trickery
Ilya Grigorick put up a pretty cool pastie showing a neat hack to make Ruby hashes raise errors with invalid keys:
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