Ruby on Rails Best Practices – Sitepoint
Posted in Code, Ruby on Rails, Sitepoint
The Frontier Group has just been added to the Sitepoint blogroll. First post by Darcy is live!
Check it out here – Ruby on Rails Best Practices.
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Nearmap – showing how to be responsive
Posted in This week on the web
Just the other day, I mentioned how being responsive is important to business. This week, Nearmap (@nearmap on Twitter) have shown how being responsive to current events has enabled them to provide a useful service to many.
Nearmap are a map provider, with images up to five times as detailed as those seen on Google Maps.
During the recent flooding in various locations of Australia, Nearmap have managed to fly the affected areas, translate the data and bring it online within days. This has enabled the public and business/government to access the data immediately and use it to help out.
This in turn has brought about a lot of publicity for Nearmap, which will hopefully see their business continue to flourish and provide this service. It does help to be responsive!
Links:
Queensland flood donation information
Nearmap (website)
Nearmap in the Sydney Morning Herald (smh.com.au)
Nearmap on Geek Speak (video)
Nearmap on Channel 9 News (video)
Inaugural Twitter Party
Posted in #NewWebFrontier
Today marked the day we hosted our first Twitter Party. Using the hashtag #NewWebFrontier, we invited people to join in and chat about all things web related.
We managed to keep chatting for about 2.5 hours and covered a variety of topics, including: Ruby and Rails, Standards, Accessibility, Tools, Music & Startups.
We made some new friends and contacts across the world, and look forward to getting the next one planned out soon!
Some highlights from today:
@karlbright: @xfitzyx Nice question! I reckon coolest thing i’ve learnt this week is to slow down and take a step back. Rethink design.
@karlbright: @James_Lau Have you checked out Locomotive? http://www.locomotivecms.com/ Awesome #ruby #rails CMS in early development.
@davidahood: Just jumping in to #newwebfrontier twitter party from Melbourne (Aust.) using tweetchat.com
@hillaryhopper: @xfitzyx Well @dribbble is a great resource and brings the web design community together. Also gives me a lot of clients.
@jammbox: just a quickie. Discovr is now # 3 in australia. Please retweet so we can try to crack #1 :) http://bit.ly/gtf3zT
Thanks to the following participants:
xfitzyx, karlbright, James_Lau, Dirkkelly, maybegenius, keithpitt, davidahood, jammbox, Sutto,
hillaryhopper, tullibo, MikeLangford, jdunbar100, brodiemcculloch, patrickcohen, ismaelburciaga,
mariovisic, richhemsley, jckprry, mlambie, snackjuice
How to Get All Associations for an Activerecord Model
Posted in Inside TFG
There was a question that was asked on our IRC channel today about how to get all the associations for an Activerecord model. I’m assuming it was to do some debugging or something, in any case I did a bit of digging around in the Rails docs and it turns out the answer isn’t that hard.
Doing something like :
Model.reflect_on_all_associations
Will give you all the associations for that model, it’s pretty dirty though and so an easy way to tidy it up is :
Model.reflect_on_all_associations.collect{ |association|
association.name.to_s.classify
}
So, as usual with Rails it was easy as pie, I just am putting this here for future use :)
Edit : Thanks to Darcy for tidying up my previous mess :P