I’ve been porting a major Rails application (Groupon) from prototype to jQuery lately. The approach I ended up taking was to write some jQuery extensions that would allow all of our existing code to run on top of jQuery with no changes. So, here is a completely Prototype syntax compatible version of Lowpro. However, this [...]
Categories: javascript,jquery,web development
Tagged: event delegation, javascript, jquery, lowpro, prototype
Named scopes and associations using finder_sql don’t mix. And there really is no solution to that problem. Rails has no way to inject conditions into raw SQL that may or may not follow Active Record conventions. But, the need may come up that you want to return a set of records from an association driven [...]
Categories: ruby on rails,Uncategorized,web development
Tagged: finder_sql, named_scope, rails
Here’s a quick checklist of the steps I just took to get all my web dev stuff set up on my new MacBook with Leopard. I do mostly Ruby on Rails work with some PHP stuff thrown in there, so we’ll go through installing MySQL, PHP, Rails, Git and Passenger.
Categories: apache,leopard,passenger,ruby on rails,web development
I’ve been developing websites for about 2 years, which makes me a relative newcomer to this scene. I currently work for Firebelly Design in Chicago as the lead developer. You can check us out here: http://www.firebellydesign.com.
Categories: web development
Tagged: firebelly, introduction, projects, rails, reason to give
