Blog Posts on ruby on rails

MySQL tuning and Rails Best Practices talks from Friendster by Existence, refactored on Apr 26, 2012Just posted the videos from last night’s PhRUG meetup over at the website. Go over there and watch them now.

Quick Look at Notepad++ as a Windows Ruby/Rails Editor by Existence, refactored on Mar 30, 2012Last year, I looked at the better Ruby/Rails editors in Windows. With Notepad++ version 6 released recently, I decided to check whether it’s good enough to be an alternative to those two. Screenshot again with my depressing lotto app: Overall,...

Project Я: A Ruby/HTML5 Visual Novel by Existence, refactored on Feb 18, 2012As promised, here’s the game I made for the Global Game Jam. Seeing that I couldn’t think of a quick web-based game matching the theme “Ouroboros”, I just went ahead with a joke I made sometime after the Ruby Rumble: Sa susuno...

500 Internal Server Error - can't modify frozen string by Beneath the Tree on Feb 8, 2012I'm using a periodically_call_remote function in Rails 2.1 which uses RJS to create an AJAX call on a certain ruby function on a certain time. The error occurs on production state when the function is being called and results to "500 Internal S...

RailsFTW, now twice as fast! by Existence, refactored on Feb 5, 2012My Game Jam post is waaay overdue but some stuff happened this week (impromptu upgrade, server migration) so I’ll only get around to post about it probably later today. Anyway, this post is just about the new version up over at RailsFTW. This e...

RailsFTW v0.10 released, now with Ruby 1.9.3 and Rails 3.2 by Existence, refactored on Jan 30, 2012Still hung-over from Global Game Jam 2012 (mini-write-up later) when I went to the RailsInstaller site on a whim. Noticed that it still isn’t using Rails 3.2. So I decided to update my own to be ahead again. Hopefully this would be the last Rai...

Coding Screencasts by Existence, refactored on Jan 14, 2012I’ve been doing some programming screencasts lately over my Youtube channel. They’re not really “screencasts” ala RailsCasts but more like informal streamed videos that you’d see in Justin.tv/Twitch.tv. These screencasts...

RJS error: TypeError: ((position == "before" || position == "after") ? element.parentNode : element).tagName is undefined by Beneath the Tree on Dec 22, 2011Scenario Error pops out upon clicking a method that RJS from prototype such as page.insert() codes Analysis This error occurs when both jQuery classes or plugins and RJS helpers are used. A conflict between the two happens when using the $ symbol.

'gem_original_require': no such file to load -- application (MissingSourceFile) by Beneath the Tree on Oct 25, 2011Problem: Running your rails application you'll experience this error at the very start of your development. Analysis: This is usually due to version shifting. As of Rails version 2.3, the application.rb from the controller has been changed to appl...

Ruby on Rails Developers (Home-based) by CebuLive.com Car Finder on Oct 18, 2011Do you love Ruby-on-Rails? To support the very ambitious plans for our company, we need several additional experienced Rails developers. You can work from anywhere, just as long as you love what you do and enjoy making beautifully coded products. You...