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While working on my upcoming BigAuthor project, I came upon an interesting challenge that turned out to be so simple with MongoMapper that I just have to share it here. Need to create a hash of multiple filter parameters on a MongoMapper document using a form that is cleanly resource-based, using InheritedResources? It’s [...] Not meant to be a “this is what should be done” as much as a “this is what Matt uses, based largely on community popularity, best practice, and Matt’s personal tastes.” Take it for what it is: a point of discussion. Of course, the skeleton of any Rails app will vary from project to project, depending on [...] The title of the post is more-or-less a verbatim quote from a coworker, as well as from an unrelated colleague of mine from a previous job. I was asked that question and, to be honest, I was a little thrown both times. I didn’t actually know why I use HAML. I guess I’d [...] Frequently, while working with MongoDB and MongoMapper, I run across an implementation of something that blows me away with its beauty. This, my friends, is one of those times. Given: a Users collection where the users’ names are stored in an Array key called name. i.e. :name => ["Patterson", "Matt"]. It [...] Can that title have the word ‘mongo’ in it any more times? Well, fear not, I’m about to use it even more… So, I had to fool around a bit to get the so-called “Mongosphinx” gem working with my app architecture. Thought it might be helpful to others to demonstrate how I did it. [...] Just solved an interesting problem when using the latest Thin web server (1.2.5) with Ruby 1.9.1 and Rails Metal. The code in Rails Metal endpoint: def call(env) Put all this crap in your ~/.aliases file. Do it! alias migrate="rake db:migrate db:test:prepare" Here’s what I had to do to get it working: Install ‘tre’ - but *don’t* use macports; tried that and it bombed, instead do: wget http://crm114.sourceforge.net/tarballs/tre-0.7.5.tar.gz now, follow these directions Enjoy! |
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