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
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
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
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
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




