We’re trying to prep our house to put it on the market. This sucks down a great deal of time, and explains why posting may be spottier than usual for a little bit.
- How to Create Many to Many Relationships in Ruby on Rails – One of the basic skills, but it does point out creating the join table, which is easy to miss the first time you set up such a relationship. (via dzone)
- Haml 1.7 has been released! – Alternative markup language for Rails views. Lots of perf work in the last few releases, so it’s becoming a more viable alternative, at that.
- Using Omnigraffle to visualise Rails model associations – I could have used this about a week before I found it, since I spent a big chunk of that week drawing ERDs to understand a pile of existing Rails models. This one uses code to reflect over the models and build ERDs automatically.
- Warehouse Subversion Browser Released! – This is the SVN browser in Rails from the ActiveReload folks. Now available for a one-time $30 fee.
- Replacing Ant With Rake – Here’s how you can call all your ant tasks as if they were rake tasks, and so switch to rake for ongoing maintenance of your ant files.
