Category Archives: Ruby on Rails

Test your mailers in Rails 3

Posted on December 22, 2010 by jen

I don’t blog very often but I felt this was worth posting, since it left me scratching my head for a few minutes… Trying to test new mailers in Rails 3 (v 3.0.3 to be exact) with no real documentation … Continue reading →

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Who needs a codesitter?

Posted on September 1, 2010 by jen

Not this chick. Sorry Rails, I love you and all, but you have now taken a governmental stance by trying to regulate the output of my HTML and for that, I must say: “Quit it!!”. If you haven’t caught up … Continue reading →

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Updating Multiple DOM Elements (Unobtrusively) with AJAX in Rails

Posted on November 24, 2009 by jen

Okay, so you’re like me and you have a complex app that requires AJAX calls to update numerous areas on the page with content from partials. For instance, a date range changes, gets submitted, and that updates a calendar, the … Continue reading →

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Rails Collection Blocks

Posted on June 7, 2009 by jen

My great friend and mentor Jake Dempsey is always preaching about code readability and keeping logic out of views, etc, and therefore he’s always writing nice little helpers to do some of the magic — for instance, collection_content_for(collection) which will … Continue reading →

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Fancy Forgot Password with jQuery/ui and Rails

Posted on March 23, 2009 by jen

By now, you have to know how fascinated I am by jQuery, and how much I love using it with Rails to make things simple, yet slick. Last week I did some wireframes for a client, and one of them … Continue reading →

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