May 2008
6 posts
Unofficially Announcing Fu-fu: The Profanity...
I’ve released a new pluging: Fu-fu: The Profanity Filter for Rails. You can now filter out profanity from your rails models simply by specifying ‘profanity_filter! :fieldname’. The Profanity Filter can replace curse words using a basic ‘@#$%’ or by a dictionary lookup.
http://github.com/adambair/fu-fu/tree/master
Thanks to Intridea for making this possible. ...
Twitter clients...
I really wish twitter clients would tell you when twitter is unavailable.
Ruby String.split, preserve delimiters
string = “We’re so happy that you’re here!!”
string.split(/(\W)/) #=> [“We”, “’”, “re”, ” “, “so”, ” “, “happy”, ” “, “that”, ” “, “you”, “’”, “re”, ” “, “here”, “!”,...
Trouble with gem install ultraviolet on OSX...
It’s because you neet to install Oniguruma (a regex library). Macports is easiest:
sudo port install oniguruma5
If you need to compile manually, there are instructions out there.
CrowdSound
We just launched a new product at Intridea called CrowdSound.
CrowdSound enables you to gather and manage user feedback through a simple embedded interface. Check it out:
Sign up for a free account at www.crowdsound.com.
“Why is the most important question a software developer can ask. It is your...”
– Jay Fields — Understanding Why