Category Archives: rails

Less than eleven hours to go …

… and I need a nap. I’ll get an hour of shut eye, and have lunch when I get back up. It doesn’t look like I’ll get 70% of the functionality in by midnight. It may be more like 50%. … Continue reading

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Breakfast time!

My stomach started hurting about 10 minutes ago. It could be from the coffee I had a few hours ago. But I think it’s just gastric juices from 10-11 hours without a meal (and that’s a guess. I don’t remember … Continue reading

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It’s official … today is my own personal hell ;-)

My webmail app for Rails Day 2006 has the all-popular tagging capability (i.e. what GMail calls “labels”.) In the spirit of agile development, Rails has a plugin called acts_as_taggable, that lets developers add tagging to their applications without a whole … Continue reading

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Four hours in, twenty to go …

I just spent about two hours getting all my unit and functional tests to pass for basic authentication functionality. Not good. I should have nailed that down in under 40 minutes. I got little more than nineteen hours to go. … Continue reading

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Competing in Rails Day 2006

In just over three hours, I will be competing in Rails Day 2006. It’s a coding competition, where you are only allowed to use Ruby on Rails to create a full web app in 24 hours. I have a thermos … Continue reading

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