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Got an strange error:  invalid value for Integer "09" What did I do? (…)Integer(somestring)(…) where somestring was something between 01-99. Turns out that an leading zero tells ruby that this is octal. Hell, I don’t have any octal stuff in my web app. Solution: Do it the ruby way, use .to_i – even cleaner, and [...]

In the java world, you have setter and getter in your model which are called ALWAYS. Change some behaviour in the setter/getter and you are done. Things are somewhat more complicated if we look at rails and activerecord. Imagine you have a model that should parse both minutes and a formatted hour/minute string as data: [...]

If you want to show _when_ the app has been deployed with capistrano, this snipped might come in handy: ############################################################# #   Custom Tasks ############################################################# set :version_file, "#{tcdb_path}/app/views/layouts/_version.html.erb" namespace :my_tasks do desc "Sets the timestamp in version_file" task :set_version_info do run "rm #{version_file}" run "echo ‘#{Time.now}’ >> #{version_file}" end end after ‘deploy:symlink’, ‘my_tasks:set_version_info’ One more [...]