November 2010
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Show off just how sassy you can be →
Thanks, Chris Eppstein! I think this is a great idea. This is a simple idea that I think should be applied for other languages/projects.
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Using hassle gem for a happy Heroku/Sass marriage
I love Sass… there I said it. Go on tell my how much Sass sucks, I don’t care. I’ve been using it and have been in a happy code/developer relationship for quite some time now.
However there has been some hardship between Sass and I after trying to deploy my application to Heroku. The problem lies in that Heroku does not allow filesystem write access to anywhere but the temp...
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ctags got you down?
So for those of you using Vim, ctags are an extremely useful tool to have at your disposal. Join that with the rails.vim plugin and who needs Textmate. (OK, don’t flame me for that one.)
Setting up ctags is simple, now that we have homebrew:
brew install ctags
That’s it. Viva la brew!
Now go back to your rails project in Vim and issue the :Rtags command.
Whoops, that...
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Limit environment specific gems from installation... →
Don’t bother with installing gems on Heroku for your non production environments with this little tidbit of knowledge.
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When you need more than production from Heroku →
Using Heroku for staging environments is awesome! If you don’t believe me, ask… well ask anyone. It’s free and quick to set up!
The problem I ran into is that I have an application yaml file with settings for different. This works out all great until I remembered that Heroku always deploys with rails in the production environment. Low and behold my api calls did not work because...