http://alexle.org/blog working with Rails in San Francisco Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:25:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I love the ExceptionLogger plugin. And I love developing on Rails Edge (which is currently between 2.0 PR and 2.0 RC). I recently ran into a small headache when trying to get ExceptionLogger to work with a standard EdgeRails setup, and there seemed to be things missing from ... http://alexle.org/blog/2007/10/31/exceptionlogger-plugin-and-edge-20-rc/ Translate query keys in Ruby on Rails with this Plugin. After getting approval from the big boss, I'm now publishing my first rails plugin. This is a plugin I've previously talked about developing here and here. The plugin extends Ruby on Rails route recognition/dispatching to allow controllers to refer to parameters ... http://alexle.org/blog/2007/06/20/rails-routing-pt-3/ Starting to feel the effects of 55 hour weeks... I feel bad for some colleagues who are working even longer hours (they have children at home waiting for them!). http://alexle.org/blog/2007/06/19/long-hours/ The release of Parallels 3.0 has been a day that I've been waiting for. Since the first time I was exposed to virtualization of operating systems, I've hoped that one day I would be able to run Windows as a virtual machine, and still be able to play all ... http://alexle.org/blog/2007/06/17/virtual-machines/ My Tumblog http://alexle.org/blog/2007/06/17/the-downside-of-living-on-the-bleeding-edge/ I spent some free time this evening looking at some old rails projects that I've worked on. One in particular has a lot of potential, and I'll be spending some time refactoring it. During the Spring of my senior year, I was contracted along with 3 other students ... http://alexle.org/blog/2007/06/05/digging-up-old-work/ UPDATE: I have made the plugin publicly available. Building beautiful URLs in Ruby on Rails is easy. One of the major reasons we chose Ruby on Rails as our development platform was because it gave us a lot of freedom in creating search engine friendly URLs for our search engine results ... http://alexle.org/blog/2007/06/05/translating-query-parameter-keys-in-rails/ It turned out that the 'arbitrary constraint' was a bug afterall. The bug was fixed in release 1.2.3, and has made my life much easier. Since the release, I've developed a plugin at Yellowpages.com that allows route generation via query parameters and translation of query parameter keys so ... http://alexle.org/blog/2007/04/04/rails-routing-pt-2/ While working on the next generation site at Yellowpages.com (being built on Ruby on Rails), I've had numerous opportunities to look into the innerworkings of the framework. One major point of frustration for me so far has been what seems like an arbitrary constraint of the framework in the ... http://alexle.org/blog/2007/03/05/rails-routing-query-parameters/ Admittedly, I'm a little behind the times for a self proclaimed gadget freak. I've always been in love with electronic doodads, but my reach no longer exceeds my grasp. I recently purchased a Macbook Pro (after being without any Apple computers for an agonizing 8 month span), and ... http://alexle.org/blog/2007/02/17/car-blogging-pt-2/