In a web app, it is very common to have actions that destroy (delete/remove) data. These actions, if you don’t already know, should always map to POST methods. On top of that, because these actions are destructive, the UI should always ask the user for confirmation. But how do we actually implement the confirmation dialogue though? The vanilla JavaScript confirm box would be the easiest but at the same time the ugliest - this thing stalls most web browsers until the user acts on it. An inline p...

I am extremely happy that my patch was accepted, so I am now one of the 1600 odd people who have contributed to the Rails project! :D

Similarly to Action Throttler for Rails, KThrottler is an easy to use Kohana module to quickly throttle application actions based on configurable duration and limit. Go check out the code now! :)

Dating girls is like calling a callback function without knowing the accepted arguments. Random exceptions would throw right in your face. Dating girls is like running prerelease ruby gems. Things might not be compatible, there might be memory leaks and other weirdnesses. Dating girls is like reading a tutorial in a foreign language. You think you got it, but you don’t. Dating girls is like using a ruby class with lots of mixins. You’re looking right at a class method, but you don’t know where...

Introduction ActiveRecord is without doubt the de facto ORM library for Rails and many Ruby web frameworks. Many developers however, do not like database migrations and prefer to use DSL for data mapping. Datamappify is created with the sole purpose of getting rid of the DB migration headaches. Why Not DB Migrations? Well, depending on your specific project, DB migrations might create more trouble than it’s worth. Besides, your code is already version controlled, so why create a separate versi...

Fuck GPL!

[] [] [] [] [] Just some late night sketches, done with a finger, an iPad and some wine.

A few days ago I discovered Padrino, an excellent ruby framework built on top of Sinatra. What can be a better than experimenting with it? Build an actual website with it! So last night I ported Wuit.com from using vanilla PHP + Flourish to using Padrino + DataMapper + Haml. The entire porting experience was positive, albeit the website only has two pages. I did encounter a strange problem with Capistrano though - both current_release and latest_release were giving me strange results. In the e...

Haml and Sass are two extremely useful template engines. They are very popular amongst the Ruby and Rails community. I am happy to release a module for Kohana v3 that uses the PHamlP library to offer Haml/Sass support for Kohana. Right now the module only supports Haml but I will be adding Sass support in the very near future. Head over to GitHub to check out the source code. :)

The Rails deployment flow is really smooth thanks to the powerful (and easy to use) Capistrano. Capistrano not only works with Rails and other Ruby code bases, but also code bases in any programming languages, such as PHP! Here is an overview of what I did to get one of our PHP production sites up and running with Capistrano. If you don’t already have Ruby and Rubygems installed, install them! After you got ruby and rubygems, install Capistrano and its related gems - gem install capistra...