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About andhapp

Namastey (Hello) Stranger, This is not the geekiest blog on the planet yet it is not the dumbest one either. I am a small time developer who likes to explore new technologies. I usually program in Java, Groovy and Ruby and take keen interest in the surrounding geeky developments.

Shiny new bundler and my is_bot gem

If you haven’t already installed the release candidate of superfast bundler, then I feel sorry for you. It’s hard to put your faith in me but here’s an article that might change your heart. It’s super simple, just do: gem … Continue reading

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Getting Clearance test suite to green

The title could be slightly misleading but I am not talking about installing clearance in your Rails application. This post is just a small note to myself since I had considerable difficulties in getting the clearance gem’s test suite working … Continue reading

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ActiveModel API and Parameter Object design pattern

About 3 months ago, I was working on this piece of code which had some “virtual models”. Virtual models are the entities that are well defined models except they are never persisted to the database. They are just kept in … Continue reading

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What I learnt by presenting at SRUG

I always wanted to do a technical presentation and it finally happened on 29th March 2011 at Woking. I just think putting yourself in front of 20-30 people and to respond to their queries is a courageous task and I … Continue reading

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Trunkly Chrome extension

Yahoo announced quite a while ago that delicious (their bookmarking tool) will be shut down and I started looking for alternatives. There are few things I am looking for in a bookmarking tool: 1. I don’t want to pay for … Continue reading

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Fonts and copyright issues

I have always wondered what the implications are in using a font on your site. Since I own a mac can I just use any font that comes with and create an image and use it on my site. Does … Continue reading

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Designer code meet

Do you write Designer code? Well, this was the topic of Chris Parsons’s (eden developments) talk on Thursday evening. The presentation was top-notch and so was the exercise afterwards. I was lucky enough to pair up with James Adams (from … Continue reading

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Rails inflections and the word ‘Equipment’

I was in two minds about this post’s title. On one hand, I think this should be called “Why googling is not the answer to every question?” and on the other hand the current title will probably interest more people. … Continue reading

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Comment multiple lines in MacVim

Commenting multiple lines is mostly used when one is debugging and quickly wants to take a piece of code out, just to put it back again. Here’s how one can achieve in the same in MacVim. 1. Press ‘V’ on … Continue reading

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Moving this blog from Dreamhost to Linode

This post is in continuation to my earlier post which simply mentions the move of this blog from Dreamhost to Linode and this post is an attempt to expound on a little bit of the details and the experience. This … Continue reading

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