Create a Rails 2.3.8 app in your WebFaction control panel:

Create your WebFaction account and a new Rails 2.3.8 app. If you require a MySQL or Postgres database, you can add it through the control panel, then update your app’s config/database.yml...

If you’re using the Rails Active Record session store, you’ll notice that it does not delete old sessions. I’ve found this can quickly lead to sessions tables bloated with 100,000 records. I found a good solution on a blog for this, but it required...

MusicFloss, a great music site which I have been working on is for the month of July taking part in the Pepsi Refresh Challenge. The site’s premise is that bands keep 100% of the profits from their music sales. The Pepsi Refresh Challenge is a contest...

I’ve been trying to get into Ruby on Rails 3 but have been running into lots of problems that keep sending me back to Rails 2.x with my tail between my legs.

The latest problem is when I create a new Rails 3 beta 4 app with MySQL as the default database...

Deployed to Heroku for the first time today. Insanely easy! Literally took a matter of seconds. Stoptoad is a utility buit with Sinatra that will mark as resolved all Hoptoad errors. Requires auth token and subdomain name then cycles through all paginated...

A Rails plugin that addresses the need for certain ActiveRecord attributes to be unwritable when a record has entered a certain state. Take for example a product that begins in a “pending” state, and later enters a “published” state. From that point...

I have had much trouble on a few different servers (including Webfaction) getting javan-whenever working with Capistrano and I finally started reading through Capistrano’s endless logging and discovered that the useful information (a descriptive, useful...

Because the world has been screaming out in agonized, pleading desperation for a to do list application, I proudly present to you my Sinatra to do list application, replete with super useless powers.

Features:

* If you know how to get this up and...

I’ve had a number of clients lately who use Windows (egad!) and they have been struggled to understand how to configure their new WebFaction email account using Outlook Express on Windows. This guide works for me. You also might want to use SSL for...

Added a new feature to Wilderness CMS system today - a preference that will change text areas from TinyMCE default to Textile, Markdown, Simple Format or plain. Comes with an accompanying helper for views.

formatted_text(content)