If you’re using the fresh new prerelease of Ruby on Rails (version 3.1.0.rc4 in this article), and if you’re a user of the wonderful Compass stylesheet framework, you may have been at the same time amazed of the integration of SASS into Rails, and puzzled by the way it seems to violate the compass approach. [...]
I just discovered this awesome ruby gem named « Livereload ». Livereload watches changes in your web project (it can be css stylesheets, or any other file), and reloads in the browser only what is needed. All of this automatically… and almost instantly !
For developing web applications under Ruby on Rails, I’m using Ubuntu server 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) under Vitualbox, on a Vista host. With this setup, to mount a shared folder under Ubuntu, you have to type a command like in this example: mount -t vboxsf apps /home/daniel/apps/ But it means you have to type it after [...]
Some operating systems are more friendly than others for developping Ruby on Rails applications. But I can say from my experience that windows is hell NOT a friendly environment. So, a good way to work in decent conditions is to use VirtualBox + Ubuntu server to create a development environment for personal usage.
Today, I just started to pay closer attention to stackoverflow.com , and I’m just really glad I did. My ritual, when searching for programming-related answers, is to fire up Google, search, find some related blogs and articles, read a few, figure things out, and write, hack or fix my code. And eventually, spend a little [...]
Finding a free domain name for your website can be tedious. I just found an excellent app that really eases this process:
Have I finally found the ultimate shared hosting ? As I was searching for a good Ruby on Rails host, I found an interesting provider: Alwaysdata (alwaysdata.com). They have a lot of good features and what seems to be an excellent support, judging from their reactivity on the support forum. Modern web frameworks are already [...]
Note: pour utiliser des gems persos sur un hébergement mutualisé, vous avez besoin absolument d’un accès SSH. Vérifiez également que ruby est bien disponible sur votre hébergement. Le présent article est une adaptation en français, et pour OVH de l’article suivant: Installing Custom Gems on a Shared Host
Je suis en train de découvrir de mieux en mieux WordPress, notamment depuis la création de ce blog. Et je dois avouer que depuis la dernière fois que j’ai utilisé WordPress… ce qui remonte à environ 4 ans à vue de pif… il a bien évolué ! À l’époque, ce n’était encore qu’un « simple » système [...]
How to achieve CSS Vertical Text in major browsers ? That’s really cool stuff, I can already imagine a ton of cases where it will show it’s great potential.