March 2010
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Rails and midgets on unicycles
So let’s say you have a custom primary key for a table - a hash_id. It’s only ever populated externally, not by your rails application, so you figure you don’t really need to specify the custom primary key in the model, since it’s only ever read-only.
class Subscriber < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :midget
set_primary_key :hash_id
end
Well, think again.
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ruby templating and css frameworks
Pure CSS:
Blueprint CSS
960.gs
More powerful:
Compass - comes with support for Blueprint, and YUI css frameworks out of the box, written using Ruby SASS DSL.
compass-960 - compass support for 960
Less - another DSL, also very very cool.
960.less - 960.gs stylesheet rewritten in Less
960 gist - 960.gs stylesheet rewritten and simplified in Less
HTML templating:
ERB - old and busted
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