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Additional Steps for RailsInstaller in Windows 8

By Bry On September 2, 2013 · Add Comment · In Brain Dumps, Programming, Software Development, Troubleshooting

[UPDATE: You no longer need to do most of the steps below in recent versions of NodeJS. RailsInstaller/RubyInstaller should work just by installing NodeJS.] If you’ve tried using RailsInstaller or RailsFTW in Windows 8, you might think it works out of the box — that is, until you open a page that uses the asset [...]

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Ruby on Windows

By Bry On September 20, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Brain Dumps, Programming, Software Engineering, Troubleshooting

Some posts just write themselves. Today’s post comes from my reply to a guy in PhRUG who still thinks you need a Mac before you can develop Rails applications. This is probably the biggest problem the Ruby/Rails community has when trying to spread the word in this country: the lack of interest in supporting Windows. [...]

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HTML Line Breaks in Rails Text Fields

By Bry On July 30, 2009 · Add Comment · In Programming, Troubleshooting

Problem: Rails doesn’t automatically convert newline (“\n“) characters in strings to line breaks (“<br>“) with h. Solution: Manually replacing the \n with <br> without using h will make your site vulnerable to XSS attacks. The proper approach would be to convert the line breaks after h. Note that Rails already has a method, simple_format, that [...]

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Inject/Reduce doesn’t work on lists of ActiveRecords

By Bry On July 28, 2009 · Add Comment · In Programming, Troubleshooting

Problem: The following line of code for calculating the total order cost returns “#”. Cause: The default memo item for a reduce operation in Ruby is the first item on the list (because of this, it starts the reduce on the second item). Solution: You can set the initial memo item by passing it to [...]

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