I'm very excited to be speaking at the Scottish Ruby Conference on Saturday. I've been an attendee at the conference (well, in its previous incarnation as Scotland on Rails) and it's one of my all-time favorite conferences.
My talk is on the challenges …
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So I need to generate a PDF, using data coming out of a Rails-based app. I started looking at Prawn and Prawnto, but I need to prepend the PDF with some boilerplate material, ideally another PDF. In other words, I’d like to programmatically generate …
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As of about 15 minutes ago, the blog engine here is a brand new rewrite of what was before. The new system may not look much different on the surface, but it's all new underneath — and hopefully a lot easier to make gradual improvements, going …
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I’m way too attention-deprived to “live blog” at a conference, so here’s some of my notes transcribed from paper to the interwebs…
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I found an odd bug in Rails today. Odd, in the sense that it's not so much broken, as working in a way that's different than one would expect.
In a controller, one uses respond_to to present the appropriate response, as determined by the requested mimetype …
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So… Leopard came out on Friday. We stood in line for an hour or so at Utrecht’s A Mac. The “big unveiling” included T-shirts and champagne — plus we got Leopard 6 hours ahead of anyone in the States!
I spent much of the …
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Better late than never, more of my thoughts on RailsConfEurope:
The ThoughtWorks keynote was, by far, the most interesting use of the paid keynote slots. Cyndi Mitchell’s talk was a little narrative about business …
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RailsConfEurope was not only my first Rails conference (although I did go to 37signals “Building of Basecamp” workshop) but, actually, my first professional conference event ever…
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For what it's worth... I'll be attending RailsConf Europe in Berlin September 18 & 19. It'll be nice to be back in Berlin, it's been almost 10 years.
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Like many Rails developers, I have had a love-hate relationship with scaffolding. The offer of an easy, "instant" Rails app is alluring, but I found the results lacking. And yet, I find myself doing the same sort of things over and over again. Generator …
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Hi! I'm Joshua Wehner, and this is my blog.
