Author Archives: andy

So I’ll never have to write another has_and_belongs_to_many view again, here’s a plugin that dynamically makes 2 <ul> lists which you drag and drop both ways to manage the association. http://svn.ahabman.com/public/many_to_many_view/ From the readme: Assumming you have an @project var and you want to associate people with it. “shared/m2m”, :locals => { :thing => @project, [...]

You can’t use class variables in rails. Unless you’d like to develop in production mode (specifically with config.cache_classes = true). In development mode all classes are reloaded on each request, which clears all class variables. I had the perfect place to use them – while running a mass synchronization, and needing to store the timestamp [...]

Today I realized that the rails command redirect_to :back does not work in Internet Explorer because redirect_to :back depends on the HTTP_REFERER http header, which IE does not send. I was capturing an onclick event with jQuery and was able to sending along the current URL as a query string, which provided an easy way [...]

My situation was this – Rails 2.0 app running on slicehost (ubuntu 8.04) in passenger mod_rails The goal was Dynamic PDF generation for a product catalog ( > 100 pages) This event had to be triggered from within the rails request / response cycle, but run outside of it I needed the simplest, fastest, more [...]