My friend Andy made this 3D rendering of me using LIDAR (Laser Detection and Ranging). In the first image you can see me holding up my hand along with a number of file cabinets. The cube in the center is a table used to calibrate the device. In this sh...

It appears that the :disable_with option on the submit_tag form helper method does not behave as expected with remote forms. I'm not sure if this is a bug or not. But the fix is pretty straight forward, but perhaps a little difficult to trouble shoot. Usi...

Quick and dirty way to grab the users status messages without having to go through the twitter api (not having to authenticate that is). You can grab the RSS feed and indicate the number of statuses returned with the count param. I wrote this function for...

In Rails 3 files in lib/ are no longer loaded by default. It's a snap to auto load these classes by adding the following line to config/application.rb config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/lib) This is commented out around line 16. Either rep...

Here is a gist that demonstrates how easy it is to transform text using #gsub and a block with Ruby. "Scs Epc Score".gsub (/scs|epc/i) { |i| i.upcase } # => SCS EPC Score For more helpful string extensions in Ruby check out our Ruby Gem on GitHub...