Category Archives: rails

And there went the year!

Posted on December 18, 2011 by jebw

Well, 2 posts in a year – I guess that shows how busy my years been. I’m now starting to count down for a xmas break, the snow’s arrived finally and I got out for some climbing on Helvellyn today, … Continue reading →

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Hot and Cold

Posted on December 22, 2010 by jebw

Its been a busy couple of weeks, its been pretty cold and icy here in Cumbria, the same as much of the country and I’ve managed to take advantage of the ice and have got a few good ice climbs … Continue reading →

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Weird

Posted on May 27, 2009 by jebw

I’m busy writing a Rails plugin, following good Test Driven Development practices, ie Writing tests, checking they fail, then writing code to make them pass. This time though the tests passed straight off, without me writing the functionality – hmm, … Continue reading →

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Sage Line 50 and Rails

Posted on September 16, 2008 by jebw

I’ve done a fair amount of integration work between Sage Line 50 and various websites, e-commerce and others, and I’m writing a plugin for Rails to make this process a bit easier. Integration is achieved with a great product from … Continue reading →

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Rails, mod_fcgid and 503 errors

Posted on April 10, 2008 by jebw

Whilst setting up a Rails app for one of our clients I’ve been getting 503 errors occasionally when browsing the site. It seems to occur whenever the fastcgi process has been dormant for a while, and presumably killed of by … Continue reading →

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Fixing RedBox Bugs

Posted on April 2, 2008 by jebw

We use RedBox, a lightbox plugin, for a couple of Rails sites in work. It works great most of the time but today I’d got a bug with its overlay not hiding absolutely positioned elements in the page, only under … Continue reading →

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