Posts in Rails | Aaron Brethorst

Aug 27, 2010

Manage Heroku on iPhone and iPad

I’m very excited to announce that my newest iPhone/iPad app, Doppler for Heroku, is now available in the App Store. There is also a product website that shows you how easy it is to manage your Heroku apps from the iPhone. I wrote Doppler because a...

Feb 15, 2010

Rails Thinking Sphinx

Solution for undefined method `sphinx_scope'

Running into undefined_method errors with Thinking Sphinx and sphinx scopes? Make sure you define your sphinx_scope after the define_index block, instead of before. Simple, huh? In other words, make sure your ActiveRecord classes look like this...

Nov 09, 2009

Rails

Plugins and Gems for Ruby on Rails that I've known and loved

There are a bajillion “best of” lists for Rails gems and plugins out there. I thought I’d contribute one more with some less well-known gems and plugins that I rely upon every day. Haml - A terse, elegant view-level syntax that replaces icky, ol...

Dec 30, 2007

Rails

Capistrano, Rails and Nginx

Looking for the missing Capistrano recipes for Rails and Nginx from http://jonmagic.com/assets/2007/2/21/jonmagic_recipes.txt? No need to fret: The Internet Wayback Machine actually did what it was supposed to for once, and cached the file. Also,...