The “returning” method explained
This one you will find all over the Rails code. The “returning” trick is a really neat way to refactor ugly patterns, such as this one: object = [] object << "foo" if bar? object Into this:...
View Articleswedish_pluralize plugin: Swedish pluralization rules for Rails
For those of you looking for Swedish pluralization for Rails, I just refactored this module of ours into a plugin. You can find it on GitHub: http://github.com/newsdesk/swedish_pluralize/tree/master...
View ArticleNew rake task for the Tranlsate plugin: Google Translate
We just pushed the latest addition to the Translate plugin which adds a new rake task: “rake translate:google FROM=sv TO=en”. This will translate all keys in sv.yaml using Google Translate into english...
View ArticleCommitting to Rails Core
In our last post we talked about upgrading to Rails 2.3, and the issues we encountered. One bug we found was that multiple POST requests issued in a test didn’t reset the post parameters between...
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We are off to @media, London!
Tomorrow, we are off to @media, London. Hope to see you there! If you see someone looking like us – don’t hesitate to say hello! We imagine London to be something like this:
View ArticleSimplest bit.ly API implementation possible?
To use an URL shortener in your project, I would strongly recommend bit.ly. It let you set a custom URL (name) and track traffic, clicks and conversations on micro blogs. But best of all, it should be...
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Lär dig mer om din site med Google Analytics Event Tracking
Google Analytics är fullt av möjligheter! Många funktioner tror jag aldrig används för ditt genomsnittliga projekt. Och det är synd, eftersom funktionerna är gratis, ger massor av bra information, och...
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Använd Open Graph-protokollet för att anpassa Facebook Likes
Vi lade nyligen till Open Graph-funktioner på Mynewsdesk, med vilka vi kan styra hur våra Facebook Likes ser ut på Facebook. Open Graph är ett protokoll ursprungligen framtaget av Facebook, och har...
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Meet Flower, the Flowdock bot
Flowdock is a team collaboration and group chat service, similar to Campfire. Flowdock is also the group chat service of choice here at the R&D dept. To make it more fun and/or usable, we made this...
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Stockholm Startup Hack — Trackr!
Last weekend me, Jonas and Martin spent 12 hours hacking at the Startup Hack in Stockholm. It was a great hackathon, and we actually managed to get some kind of a product out! At breakfast we...
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