Category: Ruby + Rails
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Use AJAX for onchange of a SELECT box
Here’s how to use AJAX from the onchange event of the SELECT element : I used an extra ERB step in my view in order to reduce chaos being created by double quotes. This example actually triggers two AJAX calls on the event to update different targets (two cascaded SELECTs). The result has the SELECT…
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Aaaah, the Epicenter
Saw this from the 37s guys : When programming: Start in the Middle – “Forget about the icing, bake the cake.”
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Apache/SCGI on Windows XP / 2003
I’m trying to configure a production-mode Win2003 server for rails apps. I ran down the rabbit hole for all of the following configurations : Cygwin/lighttpd SCGI/FastCGI: compiling errors on both my dev machine and vmware test. InstantRails / SCGI : well, after figuring out how to run production-mode scgi_server as a windows service (details below),…
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Sexy is only skin deep in software
So I just watched the “5 minute video” by Iron Designer for .NET Very sexy. Very very sexy. As an MSDN subscriber (thanks to my corporate sponsors employers) and MCP (SQL Designer test or something, I’ve forgotten), this is very enticing… AND .NET has failed me in several situations where I was trying to do…
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Apache/SCGI on Windows XP / 2003
I ran down the rabbit hole for all of the following configurations : Cygwin/lighttpd SCGI/FastCGI: compiling errors on both my dev machine and vmware test. InstantRails / SCGI : well, after figuring out how to run production-mode scgi_server as a windows service (details below), I still have trouble getting InstantRails to run as a “service”…
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Initial Post
This is my initial Rails Post. Much stuff here. Much more stuff here.