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Rails Tips

I Have No Talent

In which I discuss my lack of talent and intelligence.

Live From Harmony

In which I announce that Rails Tips is now powered by Harmony, the website management tool that we have built at Ordered List.

The Balance of Convention and Innovation

In which I post an enjoyable quote and some thoughts on standards versus innovation.

Getting A Grip on GridFS

In which I announce some tweaks I made to a fun plugin which makes storing files in GridFS as easy as 1, 2, 3.

Twizzle Your Deplizzles

In which I show how to easily update Twitter with deploy notices that include the environment and revision.

Why I think Mongo is to Databases what Rails was to Frameworks

In which I divulge the awesomeness of MongoDB that we have used to build Harmony.

Config So Simple Your Mama Could Use It

In which I clog a bit of code for simple application configuration.

You’re An Idiot For Not Using Heroku

In which I discuss my first experience with Heroku and my second. And how awesome it is.

Know When to Fold ‘Em

In which I relinquish the day to day maintenance of a few of my projects.

More MongoMapper Awesomeness

In which I dish on the latest MongoMapper features like dirty attributes, time zone support, custom data types and dynamic finders.

RMagick (from source) on Snow Leopard

After the release of 10.5, I published an article about building RMagick from source on Leopard. I won’t rehash the why, you can read the original article for that. My clean install necessitated updating the RMagick script, so here’s what worked for me to install from source on Snow Leopard! For...

Lookin’ on Up…To the East Side

In which I provide an enormous amount of examples to explain Ruby’s method lookup path.