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I really don’t like programming. I built this tool to program less so that I could just reuse code. PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes? I was really, really bad [...]

JavaScript files that are served to the user should be compressed and minified, and ideally everything packed into ONE big file. You can do this with some rails plugins (not tested so far), or using the “manual” way of compressing it yourself.  (or download a compressed file I worked with YUI Compressor on compressing a [...]

Playing around with BigOldRailsTemplate. There are (in the full sense of the word) many gems that I didn’t know about. What templates do you use for rails dev?

Stumbled on another essential tool for rails development, taps! Let you sync your server database with the local one with a breeze! On the server: taps server mysql://root@localhost/mydb tmpuser tmppass On the client: taps pull mysql://root@localhost/mydb http://tmpuser:tmppass@slicehost-box:5000 This can be done vice-versa, much better than a mysqldump! And it works even with different databases!

Today I experimented with a few friends how well Rails runs on Google’s App Engine. App Engine for itself works with python and java, rails works via jruby. The conditions are great, and for small apps googles engine is free. But there are several drawbacks. BigTable, googles database does NOT WORK with ActiveRecord. I believe [...]