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rails Archive
Rails Reminder: DATE_FORMATS
A friend of mine recently asked me about adding time formats to Rails apps. It's not completely intuitive on how to add new "default" symbols for date and time formats or to get a list of the built in ones. The API has the built-in lists of constants...
Read More 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 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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