Monthly Archives: July 2010

A Datamapper is remixable example

July 29, 2010 – 6:10 pm

I struggled a bit this afternoon getting Datamapper’s dm-is-remixable plug-in as there aren’t too many posts out there and some are out of date. Hopefully this quick overview will spare you my pain
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A Sinatra before only filter

July 27, 2010 – 2:10 pm

In a Sinatra application you can use the ‘before’ filter to run something before every each event.

before do
puts “I will run all the time…”
end

Here’s a module that will allow you to run code only before certain routes:

module Sinatra

module BeforeOnlyFilter
def before_only(routes, &block)
before [...]

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Getting Netbeans 6.9 to work on OS X 10.5.8

July 15, 2010 – 1:34 pm

After downloading and installing Netbeans 6.9 I launched the app. It bounced a couple of times in my dock as dreams of exciting new features danced in my head. Then… nothing, well not quite nothing, I received a message informing me that:
“Java 6 Standard Edition or newer required. Cannot run on older versions of Java [...]

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