Rails Forms With Auto-Hyperlink On FKs

Because I use primary_key_prefix_type = :table_name this did the trick for me. Basically, I just set up a hash mapping primary key column names ("InvoiceID" and the like) to the name of the appropriate controller ("invoice_admin"). When outputting a column, if the name of the column …

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Udell Interviews Lam on DLR, Silverlight, IronRuby

I'll be listening to this podcast ASAP.

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Dynamic Language Runtime / IronRuby Inst-analysis

That Microsoft was going to increase support for dynamic languages is no surprise: they've been talking about that since (at least) PDC '03 and various hires and initiatives have clearly been in the works. I haven't seen the DLR yet, but my big question is: what version / runtime / patch level …

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IronRuby announced

Scott Guthrie just announced IronRuby! Yeehaw!!!!!!

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Silverlight binding; demoing on Mac

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Dynamic Language Runtime announced

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"Shipping later this week" (I'm sure he means shipping a beta / CTP)

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Uses Ruby naming scheme when programming .NET libraries (weird. Not sure I like that.)

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"Switch the console into Python mode, Ruby mode, VB …

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Wii Controls SAP via Ruby On Rails Mashup

I know that sounds like a some kind of Bayesian spam-evader, but apparently Edward Herrmann, a programmer at Colgate-Palmolive, and colleagues hacked their Wii controller to send messages to their Ruby On Rails application, which drove their SAP system (film after the jump). What a geek-tastic transcendance of normal categories …

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IntelliJ IDEA for Ruby Programming: First Look

My long-time favorite Java editor JetBrains/IntelliJ IDEA has added a Ruby plug-in that supports Rails. My initial reaction is that the vitally important quality of code completion is well below that of both Ruby In Steel and Komodo. Don't be too excited by the presence of the Analyze and …

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First Look: Komodo 4 for Ruby Programming

It's been a good couple weeks for Ruby IDEs. First, Ruby In Steel was released. Pretty much simultaneously, ActiveState releasedKomodo 4 with support for Ruby.

Komodo is a significantly "weightier" IDE and Ruby is just one of the many languages it supports. It is, I suppose, more akin to …

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First Look: Ruby In Steel

Here's the Ruby In Steel editing / debugging experience. Intellisense works dynamically -- as soon as you define a function, it becomes available to Intellisense. The debugging experience seems to be the standard VS one (that is, pretty darned good).

REPL functionality is provided by IRB in a console window: not ideal …

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Komodo 4 Supports Ruby

Hard on the heels of Ruby In Steel's debut, Komodo 4 was released today. This new version supports Ruby and RoR. via Binstock on Software.

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Ruby In Steel (Ruby Development Environment in VS 2005) Goes 1.0

Ruby programmers using Windows should definitely give this a look; this is very high on my "IDEs to look out for" list. It should be noted that this is not a CLR / .NET-based Ruby; it's a plug-in to Visual Studio (Standard Edition and above; unfortunately, VS Express users are out …

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