The ease of a spreadsheet. The power of a database. Constituent management for labor and community organizers.
Simple finance tracking for single practitioners, such as acupuncturists and massage therapists.
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I recently wanted to some blog comments through Akismet's spam filter. I noticed that there were a number of plugins and gems on Github, but it seemed to me that it was overkill to add a gem dependency to my app just to make a simple http call. In this post I'll describe how to interact with the Akismet api with a simple, home-rolled Ruby client.
I recently wrote a background job that looped over thousands of ActiveRecord objects, and it took about 45 minutes to run. In this post I'll describe how I cut that down to 1 minute by using hash lookups.
I recently decided to revive this blog, but I didn't want to continue using Mephisto for my blogging platform. I wanted to be able to write my blog posts in markdown or Haml, and store all meta-data about the posts in the Haml template. In addition I wanted to have an ActiveRecord-esque interface for blog post meta-data. In this post, I'll describe how I used Haml filters and ActiveHash to create this blogging platform.
Ruby on Rails
I've contributed several patches to Rails, including the first version of the plugin guide.
Automated git tag management for continuous integration and multi-stage deployments
An ActiveRecord-esque class that that lets you use a hash or a Yaml file as a datasource
