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Re: Adding close link to flash messages

morgancurrie — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:13:21 -0000

We played around with this in our app, but in the end decided to make the entire flash a clickable close button. That way we can include a checkmark or an 'x' icon depending on the type of flash (success/failure), and not confuse the use with another 'x' to close it.

Re: Learning Ruby and Rails

morgancurrie — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:57:32 -0000

I think for a lot of folks who spend their days building web apps in PHP, Python, etc., incrementally building an app in Rails is a much more exciting way to learn than spending a few weeks writing one-off Ruby scripts to get those chops up (though they will have to eventually buckle down and read the Pickaxe). I came from the world of building CMSs in PHP and I was just getting into CakePHP when I tried Rails, and the simplicity of validations, routing, and the beautiful Ruby syntax was such a stark contrast to Cake that I couldn't possibly continue using PHP. Now my company has a mammoth 4 year old Rails app with thousands of users and every day I come to work thankful that I took that plunge and I'm not stuck dealing with shitty old PHP.

Re: Build A Mac Application From Scratch Using MacRuby and Hotcocoa - Intridea Blog

morgancurrie — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:19:52 -0000

Thanks for the sweet example, it was just what I needed to convince me to try MacRuby.
By the way, I had to add "require 'net/http.rb'" to the top of the scaffolded application.rb file.
Thanks again!

Re: Receiving Email with Rails

morgancurrie — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:36:06 -0000

how do you guys deal with stripping the quoted original message out of the reply?
in one of my apps users can reply to message notifications by e-mail and the mail processor parses out their comments and posts them in the thread. we've taken to writing a new regexp every time we come across a new e-mail client and falling back on cutting everything after something like "=== Post your comments above this line ===". any better ideas?