The day before yesterday I registered a domain name for a new project and yesterday (while recovering from a really upset stomach) I wrote three A5 pages with a database model, sketchy requirements and possible features. All from very basic ones (“It shall be possible to register a new user account”) to some that are… Continue reading Holiday project!
Tag: Rails
Old and new Ruby and Agile books
A bunch of computer books I had ordered arrived to the office last week. Since I’m working on-site at my client I’m not at the office very often so didn’t pick them up until today. The books are: Agile Software Development With Scrum by Mike A. Beedle and Ken Schwaber Agile Web Development With Rails… Continue reading Old and new Ruby and Agile books
MySQL support for UTF-8 in Ruby on Rails
As a follow-up to my post about MySQL support for UTF-8 in PHP, here is the very same information for Ruby on Rails. In Rails it is a simple configuration entry in config/database.yml. I use the development configuration as an example: development: adapter: mysql database: dev username: dev password: secret socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock encoding: UTF8 UTF-8… Continue reading MySQL support for UTF-8 in Ruby on Rails