synatic|blog by Benedikt Deicke

Yesterday I decided to give Phusion Passenger aka mod_rails a try and installed it. It was dead simple to set it up and to deploy rails applications with it. I’m now using it for several “small” applications, for which the whole overhead of setting up a cluster of mongrels and...

News I try to keep up with Ruby and Ruby on Rails, even if I’m not working with one of them at the moment. These are the three feeds helping me to get the latest news: PlanetRubyOnRails.com, not to be mixed up with PlanetRubyOnRails.org, is a simple feed aggregator with...

Andreas Wolff recently released RSpactor, a (up to now) command line tool similar to autotest. Nevertheless it differs from autotest in two points. First it’s focused on RSpec and secondly it’s using Mac OS’ FSEvents to monitor file changes. According to this it only runs on Mac OS. To get...

As my current term at university is crammed with projects, presentations and term papers, it is quite hard to remember every deadline. I was constantly worrying about them and pretty badly needed a way to manage all my tasks. As I mentioned Getthing Things Done on this blog some time...

By default it’s not possible to use a database-column called “type” for anything else than single table inheritance. To change this, simply use set_inheritance_column() and read_attribute(): 1 class TypeTest < ActiveRecord::Base 2 set_inheritance_column(:something_else) 3 4 def type() 5 read_attribute(:type) 6 end 7 8 def type=(value) 9 write_attribute(:type, value) 10 end...

Since last week I’m using ClockingIT to track the time I spent on client-projects. Some of the features are (taken from clockingit.com ): time tracking & reports milestones & due dates timeline & activity log notifications, rss & iCal integrated wiki english, brazilian, french, german, spanish & norwegian languages The...

It’s done! My first Rails application is online. Hope it works fine … :-) Go visit http://shop.uftg.de/ and order some merch …