Things I commonly do when starting a Rails project

Here’s another post from me for me. When starting a new Ruby on Rails project, I tend to do several things the same each time.
1. Setup SVN repository. Most of my projects are completely unrelated, so I usually have to setup a separate repository. The best walkthrough I’ve found is here.
2. Create development/test databases in [...]

Asher and the iPod Nano

After leaving Applebees Asher tells me, “My meal came with a toy.”
Applebees isn’t the fanciest place around, but they don’t reduce themselves to  fast-food trickery by bribing children with worthless plastic toys. “Oh, really? What is it?”
“An iPod Nano,” he responds.
“Wow, that sounds like a pretty good deal. I don’t know of many kindergarteners with [...]

Asher and the Easter Egg

Working on the annual Christmas newsletter I remembered a story about Asher. I figured I’d better record it before I forget.
In the afternoon on Easter, Tina had gone to visit her grandparents. I stayed home with the kids because they were all just a little sick. I was busy cooking dinner when Asher approached me [...]

Writer Strike

I can’t believe we’ve survived this long without new TV shows. All this time I thought TV and movies were essential to life. Turns out, nobody has died from a lack of TV watching.

Hostmonster on Rails

A client of mine recently moved their web hosting to Hostmonster, and I was tasked with migrating a Ruby on Rails application to the new server. I ran into a few snags.
First of all, I followed their tutorial.
The default rails welcome page worked fine, but I kept getting “Application Error” on everything else. The logs [...]