Earlier today, Netphase launched its first in what is expected to be a long line of web applications based on its new virtual mall engine, WeSell. WeSell aims to conquer some of the problems typically associated with selling from multiple vendors in a shopping cart-based system, utilizing only one checkout.
The technology behind it is really [...]
I’m leading a discussion on this topic at the Charlotte BarCamp tomorrow.
Many companies who have invested a lot of time and money in Java technology could still benefit greatly from Ruby on Rails by using it to build new sites that make use of their backend Java based services.
Here’s an example of an RSpec test [...]
Netphase, Charlotte’s leading Ruby on Rails consulting firm, is now a top-tier sponsor for BarCamp Charlotte. We are very excited to help promote this incredible event, which will be held on January 24th, 2009 in Charlotte, NC.
In addition to sponsoring the inaugural event, Netphase intends to participate fully by both attending and presenting at BarCamp [...]
It’s been a while since we have called attention to it, but over the course of the year, our Amazon product integration gem, acts_as_amazon_product, has been improved.
First, we got some participation from David Eisinger to help improve testing and some other critical features. Thanks, David! Recently though, we added some new functionality we had lying [...]
I think lots of folks have run into this problem of using error_messages_for to display errors of nested or subordinate objects. The current Rails method doesn’t handle it well. In addition, there’s the problem of not being able to specify the full message. So… I tackled this problem today and came up [...]
I just implemented a statistics page for an application and found that I was using this pattern over and over again:
User.count(:conditions => [’created_at > ?’, 30.days.ago])
Here’s a simple extension I made to ActiveRecord to DRY it up:
module ActiveRecord
class Base
def self.count_since(time_ago)
[...]
So, I’m sure many others have made the same mistake. You downloaded the latest Apache, did the 3 step:
configure –prefix=/usr/local –enable-mods-shared=all –enable-ssl –enable-proxy
make
sudo make install
Doh! That’s probably not what you wanted. Now you have stuff like
/usr/local/build
/usr/local/icons
You’d have been better off going with Apache 2’s default prefix which is /usr/local/apache2. The problem [...]
Update 1/15/2008
Autotest and rspec both posted updates today. Now, the way to fix this issue is slightly different:
Autotest.add_hook :run do |autotest|
autotest.add_exception(/^\.\/vendor/)
autotest.add_exception(/\.svn/)
end
Thanks Ryan and David for the updates!
I’ve been noticing in my current project that running autotest was constantly consuming about 25-30% of my cpu and causing my macbook pro to [...]
On Tuesday, Forbes posted a bizarre article, Fear Among Facebook Developers, that seems to suggest if you’re not a big brand on the Internet then you should just pack your bags and go home.
The issue is that Facebook is going to start putting more of its own ads throughout the site. Big surprise. [...]
Today we released a new Ruby Gem that makes integrating with Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS) a snap. It’s called acts_as_amazon_product and you can find it on RubyForge.
All that’s necessary to integrate any of your existing models with Amazon is to add a require line to the top of your model file and then an [...]
