Bundler 0.9.25, Rails 2.3.8 and vendor/gems has no specification file error

Majority of us have seen this dreadful error after running rake:gems:unpack or a similar command to register gems with the application. config.gem: Unpacked gem clearance-0.8.8 in vendor/gems has no specification file. Run ‘rake gems:refresh_specs’ to fix this. I was under the impression that this happens due to some bug in rails gem dependency management and [...]

When Safari 5′s Reader feature fails

Safari 5 is awesome and one thing that sticks out is the Reader feature. It basically identifies some pages, for example: news pages on BBC, and allows user to produce a better, enhanced page with same text but much readable than before and devoid of any ads or pictures. But it fails badly here. If [...]

Jquery, JSSpec and an elegant timepicker

Time selection via web has always been those grey areas where one does not really find good solutions. With the advent of Jquery, there are plethora of date selection javascripts out there. However, time selection has not received similar treatment. After much searching I found two solutions. The first one was very fancy but depended [...]

Bundler and Rails 2.3.8

Life as a “Rails Developer” is a pretty smooth sailing and Bundler just makes it ever better. Rails 2.3.8 is the newest version from the Rails team. Don’t get me wrong, I love to hack my way through Rails3 but time is a big constraint for the project I am working on at the moment. [...]

Quote of the day

“If Rails is a smart organised businessman then PHP is a homeless bum.” – an individual who spent hours looking at old skool PHP code