Archive for the “Web Development” category

A Tale of Woe: starring Rails 2.2, Mac OS X and a MySQL Upgrade

by Erik Runyon on January 13, 2009

If you’ve used Rails 2.1 at all, you will no doubt be aware due to the incessant notifications, that Rails 2.2 will be dropping its MySQL driver. Therefore, in order to use Rails 2.2, you will need to install an (…)

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What I Learned Today About ActionView

by Erik Runyon on January 6, 2009

I ran across a couple of ActionView tidbits that were new to me, so I thought I’d share.

What’s your css style?

by Erik Runyon on November 16, 2008

Let’s talk for a moment about style. More specifically, CSS style. Every web developer I’ve met has had a personal way they write their style declarations. And typically if you have five developers in the room, you’ll have five distinct (…)

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Rails reference for PHP programmers

by Erik Runyon on April 16, 2008

Back when I first started with Rails, I noticed there were a lot of times I just needed to know the Ruby/Rails equivalent of some PHP function. It started me thinking that it would be great to have a resource (…)

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Hide those ugly lines with new and improved overflow:hidden!

by Erik Runyon on August 10, 2007

Ok, so let’s say you’re doing image replacement on an unordered list. Since we’re all good boys and girls here, we include the actual text inside the link tag and spin it off the left of the screen with text-indent. (…)

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