Last week, I watched Ryan Bates' Syntax Highlighting RailsCast and wanted to apply what I had just learned right away, using pygments.

• ruby
• ruby-on-rails
• rails
• pygments
• pygments.rb
• pygmentize
• heroku
• syntax
• highlight
• syntax-highlighting

The jQuery Rambling Slider now has its own dedicated section here on ramblinglabs.com. Here's the link: jQuery Rambling Slider | A CoffeeScript improved version of the Nivo Slider

• jquery
• plugin
• plugins-and-libraries
• releases
• rambling-slider
• rambling
• slider
• image
• content
• nivo-slider
• new-site
• rambling-slider-rails
• rails

Version 0.1.0 of the rambling-slider-rails gem is here!
And it includes a major bug fix.

• rambling-slider-rails
• rambling-slider
• rails
• plugins-and-libraries
• releases
• nivo-slider
• rubygems
• ruby
• gem

As I explained before on the Rails 3.1 - Adding custom 404 and 500 error pages post, sometimes you might want to have a custom way to handle your not found and internal server errors. In that case we wanted to show the error with a custom template.

• ruby
• rails
• 404
• 500
• exception_notification
• error-handling
• instructions

About three weeks ago, I had to use the jQuery Rambling Slider together with the Rails asset pipeline...
It was a headache and a total mess... Having to change all the references to the images on the CSS file, as well as the themes was not as smooth as I would like that to be.

• rambling-slider-rails
• rambling-slider
• rails
• plugins-and-libraries
• releases
• nivo-slider
• rubygems
• ruby
• gem

Another thing we added to our new site, uploaded back at the end of December, was the ability to write our blog posts in Markdown, which is a text-to-html tool that allows you to write formatted text without actually having to write all the corresponding HTML. Markdown is used for the project wiki pages on GitHub, and can also be used for the project's readme file.

• ruby
• rubygems
• ruby-on-rails
• rails
• blog
• posts
• postmarkdown
• markdown
• instructions
• opinions
• new-site

This week, I've been deploying one of my current Ruby on Rails projects to WebFaction.
For what we found, it's definitely one of the best options out there for shared hosting with Python and Ruby.

• ruby
• rails
• rails3-1
• flash
• swf
• assets
• instructions
• swf_fu

As you may know, we've been using HAML lately for our views.

• ruby
• rails
• rails3-1
• instructions
• generators
• erb
• haml

As I said when announcing the Rambling Labs new site, we've been learning a lot of stuff while building it.

• new-site
• error-handling
• bugs
• instructions
• error-404
• error-500
• rails
• ruby
• rails3-1

Another cool thing that we learned while building the new Rambling Labs site was HAML.
It's a markup language that is based on the premise that 'Markup should be beautiful', in their own words.

• html
• haml
• rails
• rails3-1
• views
• view-engine
• new-site
• new-look

One of the cool things I learned while building our new site was how to generate your site navigation menu without having to do the highlighting logic yourself.

• ruby
• rubygems
• gem
• rails
• rails3-1
• navigation
• simple-navigation
• new-site
• new-look

The current project I'm working on is not using Ruby on Rails, but I still want to use ActiveRecord Migrations for the database changes.

• activerecord
• instructions
• migrations
• rails
• ruby-on-rails
• strip-down

For a project that I'm currently working on, I have a couple of list views that needed pagination. So I went with the ol' will_paginate gem (which I first saw years ago when I didn't even consider myself a developer) to take care of this.

• ajax
• instructions
• jquery
• rails
• rails3-1
• ruby-on-rails
• will_paginate

Today, I was wondering if there would be a way to add translated routes automatically in Ruby on Rails. This is for a project I'm currently working on, whose users speak mostly spanish, so I want to make them happy with urls like "/contacto", "/quienes-somos" and "/trabajos/1" instead of "/contact", "/about-us", and "jobs/1".

• i18n
• i18n_routing
• instructions
• opinions
• rails
• rails3-1
• routes
• ruby
• ruby-on-rails
• translation

Yesterday, I was trying to run the rails console command on Ubuntu with ruby 1.9.2 and rails 3.1, without any success. I was getting a no such file to load -- readline error. This kind of error was sort of familiar for me (I had the common no such file to load -- zlib and the not so common no such file to load -- openssl a while ago). So this was probably another package that I was missing.

• console
• fixes
• instructions
• libreadline
• rails
• rails-console
• rails3-1
• readline
• ruby
• ruby-on-rails
• rvm

I was trying out the rails 3.1 smtp mailer on the sandbox application I use to test all the new stuff and it was throwing this error:

• configuration
• connection-refused
• econnrefused
• fixes
• gmail
• instructions
• mail
• rails
• rails3-1
• ruby
• ruby-on-rails
• smtp

I was trying to run the following command on a new rails 3.1 app and it was failing... badly.

• error
• fixes
• instructions
• migrate
• migrations
• rails
• rake
• ruby
• stack

I upgraded to rails 3.1.0 and created a new 'test_app'.

• instructions
• javascript-runtime
• rails
• rails3-1
• ruby
• ubuntu