Ivan Enviroman

Ruby on Rails MySQL Admin

Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Web Design, rubyonrails

This is about to kick phpMyAdmin’s ass:
rbDB web-based mysql admin with conventions from Jessy Bernal on Vimeo.
UPDATE: it’s on GitHub now! Try it out!

Tags: mysql, phpmyadmin, ruby on rails, rubyonrails, Web Design

Read more | Comments (0) | October 23, 2008

404 error pages in Rails

Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Web Design

I’m always trying to encourage visitors to my website to find the right information. I’m also pretty lazy with typing and want to be able to just guess at URL’s and see if they work.
The new website system for Sustainable Websites, built in Ruby on Rails, has articles (called posts in WordPress) and pages. I [...]

Tags: 404, rails, ruby on rails, rubyonrails, Web Design

Read more | Comments (0) | October 1, 2008

Getting down to coding faster

Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Web Design

When I reboot my mac, or need to switch projects, I had quite a few clicks and mouse movements to go through. I found it rather repetitive, so I set up a shell script (in ruby) to open Firefox, Textmate, and start the rails server.
Here’s the script. I called it open_dev_environement and used chmod 755 [...]

Tags: ruby on rails, rubyonrails, Web Design

Read more | Comments (1) | March 30, 2008

Bookmarks for Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Posted by ivanoats | Filed under Bookmarks, Sustainability, Web Design, photography

Here’s what I’m reading and bookmarking this week on the web.
Digital Web Magazine – How to Build a Green Business

In an age of inconvenient truths, global warming, and “green is good” messages in the mass media, Sustainability has become a popular catchphrase and the new marketing must-have for many companies. But [...]

Tags: copywriting, ecopreneur, hpricot, openid, photography, photostich, photostitch, rails, rails2.0, royaltyfree, ruby on rails, rubyonrails, sandbox, software, Sustainability, tdd, Technology, testing, themes, Web Design, wordpress

Read more | Comments (0) | March 2, 2008

Rake Tasks for dumping mysql

Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Web Design

I have definitely used sqlite database files but I also like sticking to mysql, because I know that’s what I’ll use on the the server. I’ve created some rake tasks to help me in this process. As usual, they go in lib/tasks.
here’s my db.rake file:

# with thanks to sake
# http://errtheblog.com/posts/60-sake-bomb
namespace :db do

# command [...]

Tags: mysql, rake, ruby on rails, rubyonrails, sake, Web Design

Read more | Comments (0) | February 20, 2008