Posted by Paul on Jan 9, 2006 in Uncategorized
My web host, perfect though they may be, has no plans to support Ruby on Rails. Bummer. Anybody who can point me to a free site that will let me host RoR apps I build, please leave a comment. If it’s a pay service, it needs the following to be useful for me: cost less [...]
Tags: Computers, Ruby on Rails, web hosting
Posted by Paul on Jan 9, 2006 in Uncategorized
I’m going to do an experiment tonight. Ruby on Rails has really nice pluralization support. For example, recipes are stored in the database table recipes, but are manipulated (for the most part) by saying Recipe.something. I wonder how well this works on things like sheep and moose, whose plurals are exactly the same. Stay tuned [...]
Tags: Computers, pluralization, Ruby on Rails
Posted by Paul on Jan 6, 2006 in Uncategorized
I hate it. I really do. Even the little bit I’ve done in it has completely spoiled me. Coding in RoR is like talking to a intelligent, beautiful woman. Coding in PHP is like talking to a pretty but stupid girl. Coding in ASP.NET is like trying to explain quantum mechanics to a miserable failure. [...]
Tags: Computers, Ruby on Rails
Posted by Paul on Jan 6, 2006 in Uncategorized
I’ve just started dabbling in Ruby on Rails using O’Reilly’s example Rolling with Ruby on Rails and I’m having trouble getting it to talk to the MySQL database I have on my Mac. I’m getting the following error: Mysql::Error in Recipe#index Access denied for user: ‘root@localhost’ (Using password: YES) Before you ask: Yes, I’m positive [...]
Tags: Computers, error, MySQL, Ruby on Rails