Nathan Humbert's Blog

JavaScript functions will really dilute your conte...

2012-04-16T19:37:17.748-07:00

JavaScript functions will really dilute your content. The codes you have provided are really helpful to prevent that from happening. I have to agree with you that he textual content is the same for both users, the users with javascript just get an improved experience.

experiential marketing

Other people may not be familiar with the SEO MApP...

2012-04-12T19:50:10.414-07:00

Other people may not be familiar with the SEO MApP jquery. It is good to see a tutorial post about this one. A lot of people who are new to SEO world will surely benefit from this.

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Thank you for sharing this SEO maps with jQuery. I...

2012-03-29T23:50:58.759-07:00

Thank you for sharing this SEO maps with jQuery. I have been encountering some problems about jQuery. I'll definitely try this out.

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Thanks, always nice to hear when someone thinks on...

2012-03-15T19:54:02.815-07:00

Thanks, always nice to hear when someone thinks one of my posts was useful.

Thanks for this! Very clean and concise.

2012-03-14T14:17:27.266-07:00

Thanks for this! Very clean and concise.

This is a great tool for those involved in the SEO...

2012-02-29T21:58:22.241-08:00

This is a great tool for those involved in the SEO and SEM industry. I can already see how it can help me in my plans for dental marketing services.

Awesome, thank you!

2012-01-30T08:17:13.189-08:00

Awesome, thank you!

I'm not much devoted to learning programming l...

2011-09-21T23:01:54.308-07:00

I'm not much devoted to learning programming languages, but a knowledge in jQuery could bode my career well.

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jQuery is my favorite programming language, but yo...

2011-08-31T23:52:45.800-07:00

jQuery is my favorite programming language, but you still showed me something I haven't tried before. I have a lot more to learn, I guess.

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This looks nearly identical to how I do things. In...

2011-08-24T22:51:58.453-07:00

This looks nearly identical to how I do things. In fact, our code would practically be the same if I didn't have comments all over the place. Great minds think alike, eh?

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Thanks a lot for sharing. I'm still new to Jav...

2011-08-18T01:03:03.064-07:00

Thanks a lot for sharing. I'm still new to Javascript, so I can't do a lot without jQuery templates like these. I'll check out your other posts for sure.

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I'll try looking into this further in the next...

2011-08-15T02:20:33.264-07:00

I'll try looking into this further in the next few weeks, Creating SEO friendly maps seem to be a good strategy.

white label seo

There is a bug where you say `require './myapp...

2011-07-07T00:50:39.787-07:00

There is a bug where you say `require './myapp'`, because that means you want to require it relative to the directory you are currently in, but you actually want to require it relative to the config.ru file (ie if you ran this from a different directory, it would break).

Instead, you can `require File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/myapp"` which will require from the directory of config.ru

Or you can edit the load path so the directory is in it, and then require like normal, relative to that dir:
`$LOAD_PATH.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__)); require 'app'`

Alternatively, when you run your server, you could do `$ bundle exec rackup -I . config.ru` which adds the current dir (the dot, the relative path to the root of your app) to the LOAD_PATH when you start the app. I like this best, it keeps the code cleanest, and you can put it in a rake task so you don't have to type all that stuff out. The problem is that Herkou doesn't currently give you that kind of control (I think Celadon Cedar does allow you to specify this command, but haven't tried)

Anyway, good write up, thanks for sharing :)

Isn't this similar to metrical? https://rubyge...

2011-05-31T10:46:11.753-07:00

Isn't this similar to metrical? https://rubygems.org/gems/metrical

I am planning on upgrading this to work with ruby ...

2011-03-28T10:32:39.077-07:00

I am planning on upgrading this to work with ruby 1.9.x at some point. When I do that I plan to switch from rcov to the built in coverage library that ruby 1.9.x provides. I think that may do a better job of handling comment lines.

First: nice work, thanks. But I see the same probl...

2011-03-28T10:08:57.798-07:00

First: nice work, thanks.
But I see the same problem as in standard rcov: Comment lines are dealt as not run. Do you see any chance to fix this?

@Perceptes: In fact, I had a problem using the me...

2011-03-08T13:24:36.685-08:00

@Perceptes:

In fact, I had a problem using the method described in this post (ie require "bundler")

Errno::ENOENT - No such file or directory - /usr/ruby1.8.7/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.7/lib/bundler/views/index.erb:

When I switched to simply:

require 'my_app.rb'
run Sinatra::Application

Everything started working again.

Hey Nathan, Thanks for this. To get running local...

2011-03-05T09:49:23.170-08:00

Hey Nathan,

Thanks for this. To get running locally I had to do:

bundle exec rackup

might help someone else who's stuck.

Thanks for putting your thoughts down on this, I s...

2011-02-17T07:29:20.910-08:00

Thanks for putting your thoughts down on this, I still believe should_change is still useful in many cases, but your solution seems to be a good 80/20 fix.

I've taken it a bit further by defining my own shoulda macro in test/shoulda_macros/functionals.rb:

def self.should_save(obj)
should_assign_to(obj)
should('save'){ assert !assigns(obj).new_record? }
end

Now I can swap out a good majority of should_change with should_save(:user)

Using Bundler with Sinatra and deploying to Heroku...

2011-02-17T00:23:12.369-08:00

Using Bundler with Sinatra and deploying to Heroku is definately a great combination of technologies. I would also recommend checking out PadrinoRB (http://www.padrinorb.com/), a framework we built on top of Sinatra that augments it's functionality, gives you bundler support out of the box and a lot of other useful features like an admin interface.

It seems that the bundled gems are added to the lo...

2011-02-16T16:55:38.483-08:00

It seems that the bundled gems are added to the load path without any explicit calls to Bundler. I have a Sinatra app running on Heroku, and my config.ru is simply:

require './app'
run Sinatra::Application

I explicitly require each gem as needed in app.rb and it all works.

Thanks for your post, was very helpful. I just had...

2011-02-09T08:31:31.169-08:00

Thanks for your post, was very helpful. I just had to move the tasks/ directory into lib/ to have it work.

Just to make a note: This feature has been documen...

2011-01-24T11:56:01.365-08:00

Just to make a note: This feature has been documented and available in Rails (specifically, ActiveSupport) since version 2.1.0.

Seams there is no way to do this in Rails 2. As f...

2010-12-02T12:54:24.145-08:00

Seams there is no way to do this in Rails 2. As far as I can tell, you have to update your Rakefile to include the path to your tasks?

i.e. require 'yourgem/tasks' (or whatever folder your rake tasks are in).

Richard & Nathan: When wrestling with a platfo...

2010-10-14T12:27:46.688-07:00

Richard & Nathan: When wrestling with a platform issue I found this (both PLATFORM and RUBY_PLATFORM are wrong!):
http://blog.emptyway.com/2009/11/03/proper-way-to-detect-windows-platform-in-ruby/

Nathan: I am almost done with my updates to the gem. The latest Cucumber (0.9.2) definitely does not work with my windows environment. I used the article linked above to make the dependency optional at build time and load rescues and defined? tests in the code to get around problems when it is missing... More to come.