Monthly Archives: January 2008

Rails 2.0 and link_to_remote :with

January 18, 2008 – 11:22 am

I’m moving an old app to Rails 2.0 and other than fixing some routes Ajax calls with link_to_remote and the :with parameter was the only thing that gave me some trouble. In the old version I was grabbing the current value of a drop down list with Prototype and passing it along using :with like [...]

By Alastair | Posted in Ajax, JavaScript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails | Comments (3)

Rails: cleaner partials in forms

January 18, 2008 – 11:04 am

Damian pointed me to the patch ELC Technologies committed to Rails.
As he mentions previously you did something like
<% form_for(@client) do |f| %>
<%= render :partial => ‘form’, :locals => {:f => f} %>
<%= submit_tag ‘Create’ %>
<% end %>
but now you can just do…
<% form_for(@client) do |f| %>
[...]

By Alastair | Posted in Ruby, Ruby on Rails | Comments (0)

So I’d say Apple pretty much killed it today

January 15, 2008 – 12:59 pm

And by ‘it’ I mean Blockbuster (and possibly Netflix but they’re a bit more agile). If weren’t one of the gazillion people hitting on the Engadget and Gizmodo live blogs Apple released a bunch of new shise today.
The MacBook Air will get most of the attention but I think Movie Rentals is a bigger deal [...]

By Alastair | Posted in Apple, Cool Shise | Comments (0)

Log into Facebook with Adobe AIR (without leaving the desktop)

January 10, 2008 – 9:40 am
By Alastair | Posted in AIR, ActionScript, Facebook, Flex | Comments (11)

Introducing ActionSnip

January 7, 2008 – 1:47 pm

My new year’s resolution is to organize my ActionScript snippets, so I made a website to do just that actionsnip.com.
I know yes another snippet site, but none of the others highlight ActionScript properly. And because I don’t only collect snippets but blog posts about ActionScript as well there’s a feature called scraps which lets you [...]

By Alastair | Posted in ActionScript, ActionSnip, Flash, Flex, Shameless Self Promotion | Comments (14)

Subversion with a custom port on OS X

January 2, 2008 – 2:59 pm

Setting up subversion to checkout and over a custom port number is one of those tasks that I do once every six months, and immediately forget, then I waste time a’Googling to find it again.
Open up subversion’s config file
mate /Users/myuser/.subversion/config
Then find the section marked [tunnels], and add a line naming your custom port (replacing ‘1234′ [...]

By Alastair | Posted in svn | Comments (2)