Embedded fonts are almost a reality in web development. All the modern browsers support the @font-face attribute. Microsoft gets a lot of criticism for innovation, but they have had this ability since 1997 in Internet Explorer 4.0. Unfortunately, they do not simply let you use a TTF font or an OTF font. It uses an [...]
I am working on a website where I have an admin section to add data and public read only sections. I like to have a clean hierarchy of URLs. I first implemented it using the standard generator code. I had a /restaurants and a /locations url for both. Locations doesn’t make sense as a top [...]
This is just a reminder to me about commands that I use. rails appname rake –tasks rake db:create rake db:drop rake db:migrate script/generate controller myobject script/generate model Person name:string age:integer script/generate scaffold Person name:string age:integer
Rails offers an ORM layer. This layer is not a very strict layer. To filter or sort objects, you are actually writing SQL code. There doesn’t seem to be much complaining in the community about this mis-feature. In fact in the Agile Web Development with Rails book, the author basically makes snide comments about people [...]
Site wide layout One common method of creating common look and feels in web development is to split up all the common code into a header file and a footer file and include those files in every single interface page. This is better than embedding all that html code inside each page, but it is [...]
In Rails 2.0, fixtures has been improved. You no longer need to specify ID. You can check out the screencast. unfortunately, it does not support the has_one (as far as I can tell). I have a location object that specifies a phone number, a name, and an address object. It is specified as follows: class [...]