Author Archives: Bradly Feeley

Trust Your Source Control

Often times I see something like some_file_bak or image.jpg.old in a repository. Renaming the original to a new file name only makes things more confusing because now the _bak file has no history. Trust you code control and use it as it is intended.

Merb 0.9.3 and Feather Error: undefined method `empty?’ for nilNilClass

Recently when setting up this blog using Feather, a new blog app written with Merb, I started getting the following error when hitting the home page: undefined method `empty?’ for nil:NilClass Turns out there is a bug is merb-cache (part of merb-more) that is causing the problem. It’s patched in wycatz’ branch so pull down [...]