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Ruby Archive
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...
Read More Mepisto to WordPress Converter
As a recent experiment, I tried converting a blog from Mephisto to WordPress. After some quick Googling, I found out that Jason Gill had already largely solved the problem.
Unfortunately, his solution didn't completely work for me because I didn't want to launch Mephisto to do it and I have an...
Read More Leopard LoadError: no such file to load — sqlite3
I'm not quite sure why this happened, but I kept getting this error with Leopard and sqlite3:
LoadError: no such file to load -- sqlite3
I tried to gem install and uninstall sqlite3-ruby a few times but that didn't work out. However, installing from source did. Head on over to the...
Read More Backpack Ruby Script
Each week I edit the Rails Envy podcast. We use Backpack to work together on the stories each week. Each story is a note in the Backpack page:
Today while I was preparing the post, I remembered that Backpack had an API. A quick google turned up the...
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