Monthly Archives: March 2008

A Rails way to track additional schema info

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Right now at Harvest we are baking a few pans of Twitter integration. We’re not sure if they’ll turn out moist and delicious, but hopefully they stop short of dry and forgettable. It’s been a fun, and somewhat frustrating, process getting this feature [...]

ActiveResource HTTP basic auth with email address

As I’ve started to play around here and there with ActiveResource, I’ve noticed lots of complaints about how ActiveResource’s implementation of HTTP basic auth leaves a lot to be desired. Specifically with regard to its lack of support for email addresses as usernames. This won’t work:

class Expense < ActiveResource::Base   self.site = "https://barry@bjhess.com:password@website.com" end

Turns out [...]

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HOWTO commit an incremental Rails upgrade to SVN

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My relationship with Subversion is an ever growing one. Right now it is growing itself straight into git. I’m not sure how happy Subversion is with me. It’s complicated.

But it is nowhere near as complex as my process for committing a Rails upgrade to [...]