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How to PUT xml to a REST interface with Basic Authentication

Well, this thing got me going for a couple of hours before things worked out. Using HTTPService did not seem to be the way to go. Long story short: URLRequest to the rescue!


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Usefull Rails log visualizer with Adobe Air

Just found this potentially usefull tool to analyse your Rails logs visually. It handles drag ‘n drop and has some pie charts in it.

Rails Log Visualizer


Tagged as + Categorized as Air, Flex, Ruby On Rails

Lib Tip: Deploying Rails Applications

This is an amazing book. Not only does it handle what it says on the cover, but it also touches advanced use of SVN, common security issues with Rails and so on. 5 out of 5 stars!


Categorized as Ruby On Rails

Rails howto: custom value field in collection_select

Very easy this one:
Contact.rb ( Model )


def name_and_company
@name_and_company = name + ” - ” + contact.company.name
end

Usage ( note the use of :name_and_company )


Categorized as Ruby On Rails

The story of compound keys

Short story: I needed a table that could visualize the relation between two other tables ( services & portfolio ). So I set up a “join table”; a table that has two columns: service_id and portfolio_id. Each column contains a foreign key ( services.id and portfolio.id ).
Now, what you normally do is add [...]


Categorized as Coldfusion, PHP, Ruby On Rails

NetBeans 6.0 bèta ( with Ruby on Rails support! )

Title says it all Another one to add to the pile that is “Ruby on Rails editors”.
Netbeans 6.0 bèta pages


Categorized as Ruby On Rails, Software