The Pothoven Post

I recently needed to provide some development environment setup instructions to a friend, so I figured it would be a good idea to document t...

There are plenty of Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 benchmark results out there, and this is by no means as thorough as most.  I thought I'd share the r...

As I've mentioned before , I develop the web site for St. Francis Society Animal Rescue .  As I've also described in that earlier ar...

David Sulc wrote a nice article entitled, Self-marking required fields in Rails 3 that utilized a key element of Ryan Bates' Railscast ...

In my long absence from posting, I see I totally skipped 2010. For the 2010 Rails Rumble we created Commendable Kids. Here are the res...

One of my side-projects is the development of the St. Francis Society Animal Rescue web site.  My friend Brian Burridge and I originally...

The last couple blog posts have been about PeepNote ... its beginning and its ending.  Now I thought I'd share a snippet of code that I ...

I realize it's been a very long time since my last post, but I am still around. In regards to that last post, I thought I'd share ...

This past weekend I took part in Rails Rumble 2009 and help create a site called PeepNote. If you're not familiar with Rails Rumbl...

In this article I'm going to document a small piece of the administration component of the Ruby Rails Review that I wrote. On Ruby Rail...

Here's quick and simple tip to cleanly handle non-existent records in Ruby. By default if you try to use find(id) to fetch a record fro...

The competing Ruby frameworks, Rails and Merb, have decided to join forces! Here is the announcement from Rails creator David Heinemeier Ha...

I haven't been very active on this blog recently, but I've been keeping plenty active on other endeavors. One of which is the Ruby ...

The 37signals blog points out a simply Ruby script for KDE that will give you a visual notification when a new message is posted to a Camp...

I attended the acts_as_conference conference on Ruby on Rails. It was put on by Rails for All whose founder, Robert Dempsey had previousl...