Rails and HTML and XHTML
Rails support for HTML and XHTML is less than exemplary For some reason, the 111 release considers the application/xhtml+xml mime type to be a synonym for text/html Ummwhy And...
Firebug
Just noticed that Joe Hewitt has posted an updated version of Firebug He's taken a great extension and turned it into the best Firefox extension by far Its an absolutely...
Rails and Content Negotiation Revisited
Let's revisit the subject of content negotiation in Rails Now that I've upgraded to Rails 11 I've had a chance to play with the new responds_to functionality To get some...
REST Controller for RAILS
Time to continue the REST and Rails theme Rails' most egregious violation of REST is that it exposes object methodsin URIs: http://myrailsappcom/users/show ...
Content Negotiation And Rails
Let's get back to REST and Rails One of the things Rails doesn't support is HTTPContent Negotiation Why would you want this Because different clients understand different content...
JavaScript and Semicolons
Did you realize that semicolons are optional in JavaScript I have to admit ignorance until just a few weeks ago - and I've been programming JavaScript on and off for seven...
REST Leading To Rails
From 2000 to 2004, Peter and I drove the development of GE Smallworld's InternetApplication Suite which made is possible for customers to put their complex-GIS applications onto...
YAML Troubles
So for MapBuzz we have some machines running on Ruby 182 and 184 And we use GEOS, a C++ library, for manipulating geometries These geometries are part of Rails test fixtures, and...