Rails surprise!

Well, I just discovered that while Rails is a very nice and helpful framework… it also can be a little picky with its routing and naming conventions. Thank goodness I didn’t hurt myself trying to “fix” something that I doubt is “fixable”. Rails has a ‘dispatcher’ and ‘routes’ used, basically, for determining where to send a user when they access a particular URL. For instance, it knows that http://foo.bar.com/go_games/ should direct the system to execute code that lives within the “go_games” controller/model/views. Now, if you were to make “dispatch_routes”… it doesn’t want to work correctly because its messing with Rails innards responsible for dispatching routes (in a regular way).

Anyway, Happy Friday!

House plant web site discovery..

I found this really handy house plant identification and care website, http://www.plant-care.com/, when I was trying to identify a new couple new plants that were recently gifted to me. (Thanks to my group at work!!)

I’m stoked to try growing an umbrella tree, they look cool. I transplanted it to its own pot and the roots look good, hopefully I wasn’t too harsh on it!

My Tech-Love’Ometer just reached a new height!

My breath was just taken away by HAML.. This is another in a series of some great progresses made on the web development front! Check out the HAML tutorial! ok, give yourself a few minutes to let that sink in.. then go outside and run around the block to work off all of that excitement you just experienced. Feels good right? lol

edit: A disturbing quote from the HAML language reference; (:) The colon character designates a filter.. Apparently the colon functions this way universally.. (bad pun)

Finally, here’s the list of tools/technologies that I’m in love with;
Ruby on Rails
jQuery
Blueprint CSS
NetBeans
HAML