Today I hacked up some scripts to update a Rails database based off of what is in a SQL Server database. The goal was to automate the export of some information from SQL, send it to a remote server, and then update the Rails database with the current information. Using Ruby’s CSV library made this …
Tag: ruby on rails
Using Migrations to Insert Content
Migrations have made “Rails”:http://www.rubyonrails.org development so much easier by being able to code our SQL “data definations”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Definition_Language in “Ruby”:http://www.ruby-lang.org. You can also use migrations to code in some data too. To do this you just access the models as you would in any other “Rails”:http://www.rubyonrails.org file. For example, if you want to add to rows …
RailDock: online documentation for Ruby on Rails
Raildock is a free website that has a searchable listing of the Ruby on Rails documentation. The search bar even features AJAX’d autocomplete via a dropdown box. It is a useful site and lets developers to find what they are looking for quickly and easily. I tend to have at least one tab open to …
Send Your Feeds to Your Inbox with RSSFwd
Too many RSS subscriptions were killing me. Combined with my constant export/import I did between all the readers, I felt like I was wasting my life reading about other people’s lives. Then I found about RSSFwd. RSSFwd is a service that will poll your RSS feeds and email you the content when the feed is …
Server Stats v0.2.2
New diff out for the server stats plugin for Typo. Added some more comments, removed stale code, and mainly setup some class so it will actually take a style now. If you get issues with it and the azure.css just add the CSS class by hand. The rate Typo is moving it is hard to …