Monthly Archives: February 2008

Using paginating_find with has_finder

Posted on February 27, 2008 by Alon Salant

I’ve been enjoying using has_finder by Nick at Pivotal Labs and recently added pagination to the application I am providing volunteer time to for the San Francisco Bike Kitchen. I like the semantics of paginating_find over will_paginate but am not … Continue reading →

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markaby_scaffold Rails Plugin

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Alon Salant

We’ve been enjoying using Markaby on our recent rails projects. When bootstrapping with scaffolding there’s a common recipe of turning ERB views into Markaby and then refactoring views with Markaby helper functions. One project wrote a rake task that converts … Continue reading →

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Introducing Java DB Migrations

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Christian Nelson

UPDATE: A new version of the Java DB Migrations framework has been release, check this post for details and the project documentation.</p Here at Carbon Five we have the luxury of working on many projects, so anything we can do … Continue reading →

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Versioning your IDEA module meta-data (.iml)

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Christian Nelson

On one of our larger client projects, we’ve been tackling an array of improvements to the development environment. This is largely motivated by the fact that it’s a big project with lots of modules and engineers and time lost dealing … Continue reading →

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Google Talking with JRuby and Smack

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Alon Salant

We’ve kicked off a new project that extends well beyond standard webapp frameworks and tools including significant instant messaging integration. Portions of the project will use Ruby on Rails for web functionality. I know that the open source Jabber software … Continue reading →

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