I’ve been finding myself using YAML a lot for silly enums — maybe because I’m lazy, but mostly because there is no need to manage them via a database table. Here is just a simple example — I need to associate a region and division to a client. These will not change much and are [...]
Another common thing I like to do is use a helper method to handle tricky tag-soupish markup. A client may have 1 URL, in which case I would like to simply display it, but if they have multiple URLs I’d like to put it in a list format. The only problem with using the content_tag [...]
One piece of code I find myself using a lot is for defaulting values using a simple conditional if statement: condition ? true : false. This isn’t bad in itself, but it also isn’t very powerful and dynamic. I wrote a small application helper which wraps this function and provides a pretty nice way [...]
I was trying to tag a few of my internal apps with a subversion revision number just for personal reference. Since running the command svn info yields YAML-ish output the ruby YAML library can load it. Sweet. The next step was just wrapping it in a class and creating some instance variables and methods for [...]
