Monthly Archives: September 2009

Logging your Rails model (the easy way)

By Tony | Published: September 24, 2009
In one of my Rails applications, I have some pretty heavy tasks in my models. I decided to log to different files for two of my models so that I can easily make sure these tasks are performed correctly without going through my application log. I also call some of my model methods [...]
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Validating multiple fields with one validator in Flex3

By Tony | Published: September 23, 2009
I like laying out forms in MXML because it’s easy to read. In a recent project, I had five email fields and it looked something like this: <mx:Form id="myForm"> <mx:FormItem label="1." labelStyleName="tenEmailsLabel"> <mx:TextInput id="email1" width="300" fontSize="13" /> </mx:FormItem> <mx:FormItem label="2." labelStyleName="tenEmailsLabel"> <mx:TextInput id="email2" width="300" fontSize="13" /> </mx:FormItem> <mx:FormItem label="3." labelStyleName="tenEmailsLabel"> <mx:TextInput id="email3" width="300" fontSize="13" /> </mx:FormItem> <mx:FormItem label="4." labelStyleName="tenEmailsLabel"> [...]
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Configuring Phusion Passenger on a 256MB Ubuntu Slice @Slicehost

By Tony | Published: September 10, 2009
I installed Phusion Passenger a few weeks ago to get a production environment up and running for my Rails app. It was super easy to install and felt like magic. I checked off the item on my TODO and moved on. After all it didn’t say “YOUR APP WILL BE SLOW AS [...]
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