http://5valleys.com/ en-us 40 Rails, Software Development, Western Montana, and other incoherent ramblings. There's this project I've been wanting to do for some time now, but haven't been able to due to a much bigger project that keeps dragging out and taking much longer to complete that I originally hoped. I finally decided to just take a break from that other project for a while and hammer this little thing out... and, it's done(ish). <a href='http://www.5valleys.com/posts/59-CramDex-Studying-Flash-Cards-Intelligently'>continue...</a> Sat, 10 May 2008 16:54:07 -0600 http://www.5valleys.com/posts/59-CramDex-Studying-Flash-Cards-Intelligently jsgarvin Rails CramDex At my day job we have several Rails apps that we've built and continue to maintain and enhance. We often add features that are usable in all of our applications, so although they're often initially developed in one app or another, they quickly get turned into plugins that we can share across all of our apps. <a href='http://www.5valleys.com/posts/58-ICandy'>continue...</a> Sat, 10 May 2008 16:19:04 -0600 http://www.5valleys.com/posts/58-ICandy jsgarvin ICandy Rails Testing After all the recent controversy in Florida Floriduuh over updating their K-12 science education standards to start teaching kids actual science (and the strident minority who were offended by that), and the even more recent attempt to completely undermine the new standards and grant teachers the "Academic Freedom" to ignore standards completely and teach whatever the hell they wanted (a battle still going on in several other states), now comes... Wizardy! <a href='http://www.5valleys.com/posts/57-Floriduuh'>continue...</a> Wed, 07 May 2008 18:09:00 -0600 http://www.5valleys.com/posts/57-Floriduuh jsgarvin Science Politics I recently added attachment_fu to a personal Rails project that was already using GateKeeper and ran into some stumbling blocks. It took me some time to dig into attachment_fu's inner workings and some experimentation to figure out the best way to get to the two plugins to play nice together, so here's some tips for anyone else who might try this themselves someday. <a href='http://www.5valleys.com/posts/56-GateKeeper-attachment-fu'>continue...</a> Sat, 03 May 2008 00:20:00 -0600 http://www.5valleys.com/posts/56-GateKeeper-attachment-fu jsgarvin Rails GateKeeper Security Hello Readers, and Happy National Day of Prayer to you. <a href='http://www.5valleys.com/posts/55-Happy-National-Day-of-Prayer-'>continue...</a> Thu, 01 May 2008 10:32:00 -0600 http://www.5valleys.com/posts/55-Happy-National-Day-of-Prayer- jsgarvin Religion Politics Science I just got back from the first Misoula BarCamp, and I think it was a success. We had about 18 people show up, which I think is very good for the first one. One attendee ( a fellow Rails developer ) came all the way from Helena. <a href='http://www.5valleys.com/posts/54-Missoula-BarCamp-2008-'>continue...</a> Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:01:00 -0600 http://www.5valleys.com/posts/54-Missoula-BarCamp-2008- jsgarvin Missoula Events I've noticed in my site logs people are searching the Interweb Tubes for "GateKeeper" combined with other keywords that suggest they're looking for some better examples on how to use it, so I figured maybe I'd write something up to try to help. <a href='http://www.5valleys.com/posts/53-Getting-Started-with-GateKeeper'>continue...</a> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:41:00 -0600 http://www.5valleys.com/posts/53-Getting-Started-with-GateKeeper jsgarvin Security GateKeeper Rails That horrific piece of propagandist trash by Ben Stein disguised as a hard hitting documentary that makes Michael Moore look like Jacque Cousteau came out today, and the official reviews are finally coming in... <a href='http://www.5valleys.com/posts/52-Expelled-The-Sounds-of-Flatulance'>continue...</a> Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:31:00 -0600 http://www.5valleys.com/posts/52-Expelled-The-Sounds-of-Flatulance jsgarvin Religion Politics Evolution I've just released ARID 0.5. This is a minor update with some small bug fixes and optimizations. <a href='http://www.5valleys.com/posts/51-ARID-0-5-Released'>continue...</a> Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:07:00 -0600 http://www.5valleys.com/posts/51-ARID-0-5-Released jsgarvin Rails ARID Testing Ajax I've just release version 0.3.1 of Cross Site Sniper. This is a minor bug fix update. <a href='http://www.5valleys.com/posts/50-Cross-Site-Sniper-0-3-1'>continue...</a> Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:43:00 -0600 http://www.5valleys.com/posts/50-Cross-Site-Sniper-0-3-1 jsgarvin Rails XSS Security