Imagine your own little mac os app written with the Camping framework, that you can easily share with other mac-weilding friends. It’s all possible with next to no ridiculous hacking at all!
All you need is Platypus. Set it up to create a ruby app that outputs to a text window. Click on “advanced” and select “remain running after completion”, then create the app. Take a look inside the application folder at the script it creates at the script:
YourApp/Contents/Resources/script.
Coaxing the old version of ruby supplied with mac os into running Camping and its required ge…
A text editor is the programmer’s lathe, but unlike traditional engineering we can have limitless tools. The question is: how much time do you have to learn about them all?
I’ve used vim a lot over the years, mainly because I spent a long time using Linux and it was there so I used it. The choice was obvious: vim or vi were on almost every machine I had access to, and worked excellently both locally and remotely. Once I’d learnt the basics I was set, I knew enough to get my work done.
Then I found TextMate for Mac OS. The immediacy of TextMate made it easy to get started with, and i…
I’ve created quite a few Rails projects over the last year, some commercial projects, and others are applications released under Helicoid. Here’s a few things I’ve found save time and help make projects as maintainable as possible.
Named routes
You can refer to routes in your forms and links like this: document_edit_url(:id => document.id). Isn’t that much nicer than other means? It can often make code easier to understand quickly, thus helping maintainability.
To use named routes, instead of the usual map.connect directive, use map.my_name.
Migrations
I use migrations for…
