Major Change to Hash.from_xml in Rails 2.3.4

Recently after upgrading a Rails app to Rails 2.3.4 I noticed my Soap service calls throwing errors. After a little investigation I found this commit:

The problem is that since String#underscore lowercases the string, any Hashes created using Hash.from_xml with xml that contain any capital letters in the node names will break when updating to Rails [...]

Please Stop Making iPhone Specific Web Sites!

Apple markets the iPhone as a true Internet device comparable to its desktop alternatives. One of its killer features is a real web browser. No longer are we stuck with mangled mobile versions with a quarter of the features. No longer do we need our laptops to use the web  the way we are accustom [...]

Authentication Setup with Merb Auth and Merb Stack

This week I was lucky enough to spend two days at the Merb Sprint. At the sprint I spent some time testing the install and setup process for the Merb Stack and merb_auth (the merb authentication gem). Dan Neighman (aka hassox) spent some time with me going over the merb_auth process and this is my [...]