Coffee, Code and Candor

Thanks to Charlie and Russ for the quick and easy directions for getting MySQL Preferences Pane to start and stop the MySQL Server in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

I got tired of seeing the deprecation warnings about the old Rails pagination helpers, so I decided to seek out a better approach, but of course I wasn’t going to implement it myself.  With all of the skilled Rails pros out there, I had every intent of leveraging someone’s else’s success.
I succeeded, thanks to Ilya […]

I need to be able to assert that a response from a Rails controller doesn’t contain certain content, for example when the same action will respond to both GET and POST methods.  In my case I’m writing a register method in a LoginController and I want it to render the same view, but if the […]

The Bible is an incredible book. No other book is like it, period. It stands to reason that no other book would or even could be like it, since it has a very unique characteristic, one that no other book has: it is written by God who created the heavens, the earth and […]

I’m working on a project on a remote server using SSH to connect to a ZSH shell. Of course I’m on my Mac so I’m using Terminal (in Leopard). I love Terminal for local use and I expect it to work just as well when remotely connecting to another server, however the delete […]

I recently resumed work on a Rails project I started a few months ago only to find that some of the functional tests that Rails generated for some scaffolding code were failing. These tests were failing on a fresh checkout from Subversion, so it was obvious that I’d neglected to run the functional tests […]

2 Chronicles 32
1After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.
2And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
3He took counsel with his princes […]