Ian 'Hixie' Hickson, a prominent figure in the Flutter community, has left Google. Despite not being as public as other contributors, Hixie wrote a blog post upon his departure, offering insights into Google's actions and the criticism it faces. He defends Google's intentions, such as with Google Books, and argues that some privacy advocates harm users by opposing beneficial Google proposals. He also laments the prevalence of unnecessary cookie warnings resulting from public cynicism towards well-intentioned projects. This resonates with the author's recent experience with the Web Environment...... read more >
The article discusses a study conducted by computer scientists at the University of California San Diego on the reliability and robustness of large language models (LLMs) in generating code. The researchers evaluated four different code-capable LLMs using an API checker called RobustAPI. They gathered 1,208 coding questions from StackOverflow involving 24 common Java APIs and tested the LLMs with three different types of questions. The results showed that the LLMs had high rates of API misuse, with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 from OpenAI exhibiting the highest failure rates. However, Meta's Llama 2... read more >
I was getting this error with Rails 2.2 when using ActionMailer.
NoMethodError (undefined method `finder' for #ActionView::Base:0x34146fc)
It stems from a line in engines/lib/engines/rails_extensions/action_mailer.rb
This is some problem between Rails 2.2 and Engines. Reinstalling engines didn't seem to help.
Simply put, you need to go here and apply this patch:
http://github.com/lazyatom/engines/commit/499ce3b0480d8fa9375203f5efcadb8cf6ea9efe
This took me hours to figure out. I don't know why there isn't any more help on this problem.
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After slogging through connecting Rails and Sugar via SOAP, I was tired and frustrated. The API is slow, and doing anything meaningful took a long time (ok, it took 30 seconds, but that seems slow to me; aren't computers supposed to be fast?!). So, I came up with an alternative approach.
I know that Active Record (or whatever it's called) in Rails is really just a fancy wrapper for the database. So, I created a second database connection, directly to the Sugar database!
You just have to setup new models and controllers in Rails. But, that's not too hard. See this solution... read more >
I have long wanted to make sure my CRM system (SugarCRM) and my project management system synchonized certain data, mainly company names. I hate having to sync stuff like that manually. So, I've been working on integrating the data using a SOAP client on the Rails side. It took all day to get this working. I don't know why this took forever to find out, or why there aren't many good references on the Web. (Maybe I'm just dense!)
I had to patch together a bunch of code, re-code some PHP examples, and do quite a bit of experimenting, to get this all working. Here is a list of some of the sites...... read more >
This is another one that should have been obvious. But, I was getting it wrong. Maybe it had something to do with upgrading to Rails 1.2.6.
Anyway, I was getting an error with a custom action. I was sending a form to "projects/do_something". But, I kept getting the error of "Can't find project with ID=do_something".
This was happening because Rails thought it was supposed to be looking in the route for the show action. But, checking the routes file, I could see that I had defined my custom route. What, what was up?
It turns out, the custom route has to come before the standard "map.resources...... read more >
I don't know why this took a while to figure out, but it did. If you are using the stock Rails in_place_editor_field, you know it looks like this in the controller:
in_place_edit_for :user, :name
And like this in the view:
<%= in_place_editor_field :user, :name %>
This works fine so long as you're rendering from the users controller. But, what if this view is a partial inside a different controller's view? In that case, what gets called is not "/users/set_user_name" but "/othercontroller/set_user_name". And, of course, it fails because there is no method (dynamic or otherwise) like that...... read more >
It took me a little while, but I finally got this working. You'll need the iCalendar plugin.
require 'icalendar'Â
def view_ical
 request = Net::HTTP::Get.new('/calendars/calendar.ics')Â
response = Net::HTTP.start('webdav.site.com') {|http|Â
request.basic_auth 'username', 'password'Â
response = http.request(request)Â
}Â
calendar_text = response.body
calendars = Icalendar.parse(calendar_text)Â
calendar = calendars.first
end
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This one is harder than it seems. But, I figured out a way. The trick and breakthrough came from Teflon Ted.
With a regular form, you could do this in your select statement:
:onChange=>"this.form.submit();"
This won't work with a remote form, because the submission is not handled with the submit method but rather within the JavaScript callback in onsubmit. So, with a remote form, you have to change it to this:
:onChange=>"this.form.onsubmit();"
So, here is my code.
<%- remote_form_for
:user,
user,
:url=>{:action=>'update_remote', :id=>user.id},
:html=>{:id=>'form_'+user.id.to_s},
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It seems like it would take a lot of work to get the in_place_editor to work in a partial on a collection, but it does. (It took me a lot of time to figure this out, but maybe I'm just more than average dense.) The best post to-date on this is at we eat bricks.
Just add the usual in the controller (user_controller.rb):
in_place_edit_for :user, :name
And, of course, the method:
def edit
@users = User.find(:all)
end
Then, in the main view (edit.rhtml):
<%= render :partial=>'user', :collection=>@users %>
Then, in the partial (_users.rhtml):
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Nested resources in Ruby on Rails are sort of neat, but they are a pain to implement. What's more, I have to ask myself, why bother?
If a resource has a unique identifier id, then why would you need to call its parent resource to call it? The unique identifier is enough. And what resource doesn't have a unique id these days?
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Geoffrey Grosenbach's Ruby on Rails plugin calendar_helper is simple and easy to use. Maybe I'm just picky, but one part of it just wasn't working right for me.
Originally, it looks like this on line 96:
cal << %(<caption class="#{options[:month_name_class]}"></caption><thead><tr><th colspan="7">#{Date::MONTHNAMES[options[:month]]}</th></tr><tr class="#{options[:day_name_class]}">)
It doesn't really make sense for the month name to be in a TH tag and the caption to be empty. So, I put the month name in the caption and eliminated the extra table row. In the end I changed it to this:
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