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Ramaze Error Handling
I recently had to build custom 404 & exception handlers for a Ramaze application. There are several useful discussions on the Ramaze Google Group regarding this topic but I thought I’d synthesize the solution here for the sake of convenience. Handling 404 Errors Ramaze has a built-in controller action to handle 404 errors; it presents a [...]
Mellow Musings by Hugo RB for Free
Perhaps not a post pertinent to the software development world but one which I hope you’ll enjoy nonetheless. My brother, Hugo RB released his debut album in late 2009 to a local audience in Port Perry, Ontario. The album consists of six original ‘folk/jazz’ songs written and performed by himself and recorded/mixed by Theo Posthumus. [...]
Podcasts & Big Ideas
Lately I’ve started listening to a lot of podcasts – I’ve always enjoyed good talk radio but its never on when I want it to be and I have no control over what the topic is. For me, podcasts solve both of those problems. While I’m not going to start reviewing podcasts on a regular [...]
Running Ramaze with Unicorn, Nginx and God
I’ve been meaning to write a post about running a Ramaze website under a reasonable setup for a long time now so I’m happy to finally get to it. I’m going to focus my attention on the configuration of the setup vs the installation of the software - RACK, Ramaze, Unicorn and God are ruby gems and there are plenty of [...]
Ramaze Partials with Etanni
Innate/Ramaze Version: 2009-10 Template Engine: Etanni The title of this blog post is a little inaccurate as what I’m actually going to describe are Etanni partials but considering Etanni is the default template engine in Innate/Ramaze 2009-10 I figured “Ramaze Partials” was a fair generalization. Etanni partials are easy to work with and as Pistos [...]
Rails Alternatives: Merb, Sinatra & Ramaze
Over the past few months I’ve been on the hunt for a Ruby web framework to replace Rails as my weapon of choice when building an online presence. Rails struck me as being overly heavy in this context and I wanted something lighter. I was primarily looking for a web framework that, out of the [...]
Bridging the gap
Mike Gunderloy started off this week by announcing an exciting new initiative: Rails Bridge. Its mission statement says it all: To create an inclusive and friendly Ruby on Rails community To give a bit of context to my excitement… Up until this time I could sum up my view of the Rails community in one [...]
Getting Classy with Sinatra
I had heard about the Sinatra Ruby web DSL a while back but I had not had a chance to play with it until a few days ago. I’m happy to say it was a highly enjoyable experience. I accomplished what I was trying to do very quickly thanks to the good documentation and intuitive [...]
Ruby on Linux with jEdit
I recently moved from Windows to a Linux development environment and needed to find good text editor – particularly one that was (or could be made) friends with Ruby. Ideally this editor would be cross platform because, on occasion I do have to load up Windows and if possible I wanted to avoid having a [...]
WP Framework
Here is the first peak into that box of stones I mentioned on the about page. WP Framework is a blank Word Press(WP) theme that you can use to easily setup a your own theme for your WP blog. When I started this blog I debated whether or not I wanted to spend the time [...]