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We’re converting a legacy administrative app from ColdFusion, which runs SQL Server, to Ruby on Rails. Generally speaking, it’s all going very well. There are few important adjustments that have to be made, though, both becasue a legacy app, by nature won’t likely conform to the Rails conventions (table, column names) and [...]

Here’s something extremely useful:

Dispatcher.reset_application!
It’s the command that will reload all your model classes when your using the console and have made a change to a class. Prior to this I’d been closing the window and restarting the console to be able to test changes - what a pia.

Ruby on Rails does indeed live up to its reputation for productivity and developer happiness, that’s for sure. Over the course of three weeks or so, I’ve been through the whole lifecyle of a Rails app and had a blast with it. It was launched a week or so ago and is up [...]

Every so often I come across a great tool and I like to spread the joy around. I’ve just installed Firebug, a Firefox plug in, which is:
..a new tool for Firefox that aids with debugging Javascript, DHTML, and Ajax. It is like a combination of the Javascript Console, DOM Inspector, and a command line Javascript [...]