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I never like to say never, and tried to come up with one small defense for the justly reviled, need I say proprietary, blink tag, to informally describe Komodo's fast characters feature. Make that "former feature". Todd came back from...

The default database.yml file in Rails apps contains a lot of redundancy. You need to specify three different databases, and often some of the fields are the same for each one. YAML supports refactoring common data into a single structure...

The default database.yml file in Rails apps contains a lot of redundancy.  You need to specify three different databases, and often some of the fields are the same for each one.  YAML supports refactoring common data into a single structure by using the concepts it calls anchors, aliases, and merging keys.

With our main QA/support dude on vacation, I'm seeing a couple of repeated issues in the Rails project. Here's how to resolve them. First, please download a fixed version of "Ruby on Rails.kpf" from our support site at http://support.activestate.com/forum-topic/fixed-rails-project-templ (download...

With our main QA/support dude on vacation, I'm seeing a couple of repeated issues in the Rails project. Here's how to resolve them.

Thanks to a catastrophic harddrive failure on my main workstation @ $work, the regularly scheduled PPM updates will be skipped this week. I've fired off new builds as we speak and all should be back on the regular schedule. Sorry...

Thanks to a catastrophic harddrive failure on my main workstation @ $work, the regularly scheduled PPM updates will be skipped this week. I've fired off new builds as we speak and all should be back on the regular schedule.