RubyMine – A New Ruby IDE

Here is something interesting.
JetBrains is releasing their ruby and rails support in IDEA as a specially targetted product called RubyMine. I just took a download of the preview and tried it out. To a long term IDEA user, it looks an awful lot like, … IDEA I guess it is “just” a slimmed [...]

November 4, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Tools  No Comments

Kudos To JetBrains and Open Source

It is absolutely great, that JetBrains has open sourced a great deal of their plugins!
Today, I installed the latest and greatest Selena EAP (early access) version of IntelliJ IDEA, to get some of the latest flex plugin features. Sadly, my ruby plugin then got turned off, as it was not built for the latest IDEA [...]

February 29, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Tools  2 Comments

ActiveRecord Associative Array Directly Into The Database

The other day, I came across the following code in a Rails project of mine:
value = SystemSetting[:some_key_here].to_i
Hmm, I could not recoqnize SystemSetting, so I guessed it was something a colleague of mine had introduced while I was away from the project. I guessed it to be an associative array, setup in the rails environment files, [...]

February 13, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Programming  3 Comments