ruby on rails
7 posts.
Xero API Release V2.06
Today Xero released some extra functionality to their API including JSON responses, manual journal entry, items and PDF invoices. Of great interest to me is the ability to download PDF invoices directly from Xero which…
1 APRIL 2010A JRuby/Rails Message Driven Bean
A while ago I found this tutorial on getting an EJB message-driven bean up and running utilising JRuby and Rails at http://nodnol.org/blog/chris/entry/a\jruby\rails\message\driven. This website now appears to be down so…
13 NOVEMBER 2007Dealing with codes - phonetic_alphabet plugin (Ruby on Rails)
Most fonts are designed for readability of words, not complicated codes and recently, we've had to provide referreral codes to our partners so that we can track the applications that come from them. Instead of…
17 FEBRUARY 2007ActiveRecord and programmatically working with attributes.
Ruby on Rails is great. Partially because of all the ORM stuff and partially because Ruby is infitely extendable and overrideable (yes, I just made that word up). On my current project, I have a lot of extended…
11 NOVEMBER 2006Multiple Values from Scriptaculous' Autocomplete
Ever wanted to extract multiple values from a Script.aculo.us Google Suggest-like autocomplete text field? I recently did and here's how. If you aren't aware of how to use autocomplete text fields, please read over the…
1 MAY 2006Ruby on Rails - ActiveRecord#build_from_xml function
I was playing with the new toxml feature of Ruby on Rails and I found myself wondering... if you can create XML from ActiveRecord objects, why can't you create ActiveRecord objects from XML? After searching for a while…
27 APRIL 2006Rails is truly amazing.
I can never get over how truly amazing Ruby on Rails is. I was recently asked to create a quick and nasty demo application to showcase some of my skills. So, following the provided specs, I whipped up the following…