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Archive for 5 July 2007

Sylvester 0.1.3

In JavaScript, Math, Sylvester on 5 July 2007 with 4 comments

Rounding out today’s flurry of posts, a quick note to the effect that Sylvester is now at version 0.1.3. The 0.1.2 release missed a couple of bugs that I meant to fix with it. Well not bugs, as such, but places where value/reference ambiguity could have caused problems. I’m beginning work on 0.2 again, after [...]

Automating JSON evaluation in Rails

In JavaScript, Rails, Ruby on 5 July 2007 with no comments

As I’m sure many of you already know, Prototype (Rails’ JavaScript framework) will automatically eval() JSON from Ajax responses if you pass it in the X-JSON header. It even says so right here. The Rails team don’t want to automate this on the server side as recent versions of Prototype are moving away from this [...]

Grape will ignore a few things now

In Grape, Rails, Ruby on 5 July 2007 with no comments

Another update to Grape: it will now ignore the doc, log, tmp and vendor/rails directories in its searches. No point crawling through the huge files that can build up in log or tmp, and doc is mostly auto-generated anyway. I have a habit of keeping large photoshop files and database backups in the doc folder [...]