by Peter Connolly | Jul 14, 2011 | Ruby on Rails
ThinkingSphinx gives Ruby-on-Rails developers the power of a full-text search engine, with only one downside; it’s a full-text search engine. Recently I had to develop an Advanced Search facility for a site which required me to locate content within certain...
by Peter Connolly | Jun 27, 2011 | Ruby on Rails
It’s a bit of a common question (in the Ruby on Rails world, at least!). I came across this issue this morning when I copied an existing ThinkingSphinx yml file from a working system. Symptoms: Running rake ts:rebuild would rebuild the database, but would not...
by Peter Connolly | May 20, 2011 | featured, technology
Internet Explorer 6 isn’t going to go away. We wish it would, and so does Microsoft – but it won’t. And when it does, it’s big brother IE7 will be there to frustrate programmers for years to come. Until all that happens, we need to be able to...
by Peter Connolly | May 9, 2011 | featured, slideshow, technology
A set of filler texts as found on 1970’s – 1980’s Television OK, this is for me, as I’m always having to locate this stuff on Google. The traditional Lorem Ipsum texts are fine for most purposes, but sometimes you need to add filler text and...
by Peter Connolly | May 5, 2011 | featured, Ruby on Rails, technology
What is a Helper? A helper is a piece of code which can be used in several places within your Ruby project, which helps you to keep your code DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself). By moving code into helpers you can reduce repetition, improve readability and increase...
