SQLite3 is truly dynamically typed. To a fault: sqlite> select count(*) from posts where external_id = 199252; 0 sqlite> select count(*) from posts where external_id = ’199252′; 1 sqlite> select count(*) from posts where external_id = 199793; 1 sqlite> select count(*) from posts where external_id = ’199793′; 0 One day I suppose I will find [...]

After last week’s got.rb meeting we went out to grab a beer and continue our geeky discussions.  I just want to make a note to myself that the wonderful beer I had (after CJ refused it) was a Gueuze Fond Tradition from Belgium.  It’s not available at Systembolaget, much like this summer’s first favourite, Gjutarns [...]

All hackers want to live on the edge. What we rarely reflect on is the fact that most things have more than one edge. Adaptation curves have two: one where the early adopters build up their reputation for cool and one where I found myself this afternoon. Apparently I should have let go of Fedora [...]

Git bisect is the hero of the week! It turned out that some time between now and three weeks ago, the login functionality broke in the Rails app we’re developing. It didn’t break completely, of course, just in certain environments. And looking at the logs, I had no idea what the error could be, so [...]

PeepCode publishes wonderful screencasts and pdf books on subjects that should be of interest to any Rails developer. The pdfs seem to be adapted for screen reading – they are in landscape mode, not in standard paper sizes (as far as I can tell) and they have big print. So far so good, but I [...]

FS-data was the first web hotel in Sweden to support Ruby on Rails (in August 2006, I think) and I’m glad they did. Unfortunately they haven’t touched their setup since, so patrons are still limited to (a) apps in subdirectories only and (b) FastCGI (FCGI). I have seen many complaints about FCGI, but I have [...]