Re: [rails-oceania] Ruby Australia

Well done everyone! Mad props to Keith, Pat and Richie for generously donating their time and expertise to get this over the line. We made it! Yay :D On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Keith Pitty wrote: > Next month the tenth Australian Rails Camp will be held in the Adelaide > Hills. This landm

[rails-oceania] Bits & Pixels christmas meetup

Hey Sydney-siders, Bits & Pixels is having a christmas meetup next Saturday the 17th. B&P is a great get-together of devs from around Newcastle that normally includes beer, ad-hoc web-like things, general nerdery and beer. This month there's talk of doing some kind of BBQ and/or Strike Bowling eve

Re: [rails-oceania] Rails 3.1 assets and external code

1) use no helpers (so that I don't have to modify the auto-generated > jquery-ui stylesheet) > 2) use the assets pipeline (so that the CSS goes into the single > application.css, and gets minified automatically) > > Cheers, > Chris > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Chris Dar

Re: [rails-oceania] Rails 3.1 assets and external code

Use the image-path() or image-url() sass-rails helpers. https://github.com/rails/sass-rails Sent from my iPhone On 26/10/2011, at 6:45 PM, Chris Berkhout wrote: > Hi All, > > I've got a Rails 3.1 app, and I've just started using the jQuery UI > plugin's datepicker. > > I'm getting the javasc

Re: [rails-oceania] Rails Engines vs. Desert gem

Ah, cool. Well I might spend a bit of time playing with CE and try to get it running OM 3.1.0.rc5, it seems nice enough to warrant giving it a shot. In terms of maintainability it seems like having the framework code in a plugin could be difficult to work with, but should in theory make it easi

Re: [rails-oceania] pROjeCt cApiTaLiSATion

The other reason I love all-lowercase (as well as preferring hyphens over underscores) is you don't need to use any modifier key to type it out :) On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Pat Allan wrote: > I personally opt for having my Github projects match gem names - and so > lowercase with hyphens

Re: [rails-oceania] Design Book Recommendations

I'd highly recommend "The Humane Interface" by Jef Raskin. Raskin was a psychologist who worked in human computer interaction, and subsequently the book has a heavy focus on people's cognitive capabilities as applied to user interface design. It doesn't deal with implementation details, but touches

Re: [rails-oceania] Rails Camp 9

There's a couple of nice places around Newcastle or Nelson Bay that could be worth considering, too. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Ivan Vanderbyl wrote: > Hi Keith, > > +1 for Byron Bay > > -1 for June long weekend, it might clash with RailsConf 2011, but they > haven't announced dates yet. >

Re: [rails-oceania] [noob] How to create default hash in model and access in the view

I haven't used mongo myself, but I'm pretty sure your problem is that you're using ":location" (a Symbol) instead of just using "location" (without the colon in front, which should reference a local variable of the same name). What does the code in your controller look like? You won't be able to a

Re: [rails-oceania] Arel basics?

You'll also notice that your order by isn't being applied either. I've used ARel a little on its own as well, and was equally perplexed by some of its behaviors when composing queries such as this one. I think I forced the query to return sensible things by explicitly projecting the columns I car

Re: [rails-oceania] celebrate http://whyday.org/

You can actually get hard copies of the poignant guide? From where? On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Mark Ryall wrote: > It's a cool idea - _why is still my hero. > > By some enormous coincidence, my hard copy of the poignant guide arrived > from lulu that day. > > I was also tinkering with a ge