Archive for August, 2009
Canonical URL tag, RubyOnRails, and why you are stupid for not using it
What is a Canonical URL Tag? Simple. It’s a tag you put in your HTML to let the spiders know that the page it is crawling is a duplicate of another page on your site. “But Kris, why would should I worry about this?” Simple. Your site idea is probably stupid and will not catch [...]
Inherited_resources is as close to GOD as you can get
I hate scaffolding. I truly do, with its repetitive actions and views. I recently found my savior, inherited_resources. This masterpiece allows you to rid of using ActionController directly, and DRY up that wet slop you call a controller. I’d love to give an in depth example, but really, his README is pretty damn intuitive. So, [...]
Authlogic and rescue_from ActionController::RoutingError
Spicing up your error pages can be the deciding factor on a sale or not. One of my clients wants just that, user friendly error pages and more sales. So I set off to test some ways to do so. What did I decide to do? Simple. All of my clients movies are tagged. So, [...]
