Ruby on Rails developer in Phoenix, Arizona

I’m heading out to RubyConf 07 today with Matt Heidemann, one of the many fine Rubyists at Integrum. If you are going, twitter me!

Recently I found myself needing to create a resource-only controller, no HTML, no views, just straight-up XML data. I was planning on using ActiveResource to interact with my resource server. I could find lots of resources on using ActiveResource as a client, but not much in the way of building a proper controller [...]

Josh Knowles and I were bored this afternoon and so we thew together a little camping app so that the next some someone asks for the world, you can send them a pony! Please check out http://canihaveapony.com! More powerful pony features are coming soon!

Josh Knowles and I hacked together a teaser page for an idea that Josh, Derek, and I talked about some 6 months ago. We will be working on putting together a great resource to help people keep up with the frantic pace of Ruby on Rails especially as it approaches 2.0. Please visit [...]

I’m here at the Silicon Valley Ruby Conference.
I am really excited to be here (I don’t get out much) because of the excellent speakers they have managed to sign up. I am also excited to meet and greet some of the greatest minds in the ruby community.
More details to come.

I did a lightning talk at MountainWest RubyConf 2007 covering how we use capistrano at Integrum to manage ssh keys for some of our Xen servers. Please note that this works for a single user sharing multiple keys. Here is how it’s done.
Create your directories:

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mkdir sshkeys
cd sshkeys
mkdir config
mkdir keys

Now the recipe.

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# config/deploy.rb
role :app, [...]

Tomorrow night I leave for Mountain West Ruby. I can’t wait to meet some of the southwest’s greatest Ruby and Rails gurus. I’ll try not to be too much of a fanboy.

So today I attended a local event called CerealBar Phoenix. There were some great guys from the local startup / web dev community out and we had some really great, yet laid back, conversation. It’s good to see that there are some smart yet community-minded people in the Phoenix area who are willing [...]

I have used acts_as_state_machine in a few client projects and have recently run across a need on a couple of them to allow RESTful updates to change states, easy enough except I want to be able to call the appropriate events and make the proper transitions if they are possible. So I came up [...]