Fernando Blat
Modeling entity relationships in a non-relational scenario
Since I saw the presentation about Couch Potato, a library for using CouchDB with your Ruby applications I was very curious about how to map a relational schema (that is the most common way to model entities and their relationship) in a document / plain schema where each element has no relation with the others. And at last, today I found a co...
Fernando Blat
Forcing I18n locale in a block
If you work in a project with i18n maybe you found useful this small trick for forcing the locale in a block: module I18n class This is very useful, for example, when you have to send a notification to a user in his locale, not in the current locale, so you have to do it in this way: I18n.in_locale(@user) { UserMailer.deliver...
Fernando
i18n_gettext
Two weekends ago we celebrated the first Rails Hackathon in Madrid: the idea was to make groups of two or the people, select a ticket from the Rails core, and create a patch for it. Sam Lown and me, decided to work in a plugin for allowing compatibility between GetText and the new Rails i18n support. The result is our beta plugin i18n_gettext, ...
Fernando
Testing Twitter notifications
In La Coctelera we offer to the users the possibility to automatically update their Twitter status with a link to the last post or the last published photos (shortly :). The tests for notifying twitter are very easy if you use the powerful Mocha (in the beginning we tried to simulate the Twitter::Base class, but it gets a little bit more comp...
Fernando Blat
Updating Query Memcached
After a lot of time without having time I decided to update query_memcached plugin with a lot of changes that the github collaborators pushed some weeks ago. These are the major changes: there was a bug that made the plugin don't work in some situations the philosophy have changed a bit and now not all is magic, and you have to indicate in ...
Fernando Blat
Program your i-Buddy with Ruby
This days I have been working on a small library for the i-Buddy device, a small gadget for MSN Messenger lovers, that you can connect to your computer through a USB port and has some functionality like light its head with different colours, light a small hearth, move the flaps and turn left or right. The main attractive is the price (no more t...
Fernando
Small tip for debugging Javascript in IE
Today we had to find a small bug in La Coctelera's javascript: the bug was a hash with a colon after the last element. The problem was that, of course, it didn't work on IE 6 and don't have any debugger for Javascript installed on my Vmware. The ...
