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hello, i'm yan

I am a photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, guitarist, climber, and telemark skier

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Posts Tagged RubyOnRails

Clean svn tag support for Capistrano 2

If you find capistrano’s release directory naming conventions hard to use, a great alternative is to base releases on your svn tags. It turns out that implementing this in cap2 is quite simple. Unfortunately I can’t quite figure out how to turn this into a library so at this point it exists as a cut-n-paste [...]


Dynamically adding routes from your engine plugins

At Cohesive FT I am developing a sort of webmin console that has drop-in pluggable components. I am using the RoR plugin system with the engines plugin to drop entire chunks of MVC infrastructure into my application as required. This is all well and good except that rails engines require you to add this line [...]


Rails 1.2 breaks url routing with dots?

This last week we’ve spent migrating Planypus from Rails 1.1.6 to the latest 1.2.1 release. Unfortunately the Rails 1.2 rewrite of the routing system leaves something to be desired. Apparently, the dot “.” (period) character is now considered a route separator, causing routes that have dots in them to break badly. Why is this bad? [...]


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