Holiday Projects

26 Nov 2009

For some reason I find myself starting new projects on holidays. Perhaps it’s mental decompression, or just an excuse to have some fun. Either way, today’s holiday project was a little smaller than usual — I’m already done!

It’s a tiny Sinatra app for allowing people to anonymously submit tickets to your Unfuddle account. You could use this for letting clients submit work requests, beta testers to submit bugs, or whatever.



Quick Tip: MongoMapper::DocumentNotFound

21 Nov 2009

If you’d like to get a 404 response when you encounter a MongoMapper::DocumentNotFound error, which is the default response for ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound, simply toss this in your initializer where you set up your Mongo connection (I use config/initializers/mongo.rb):

ActionController::Base.rescue_responses['MongoMapper::DocumentNotFound'] = :not_found



Want to go to RubyConf?

13 Nov 2009

If you’d like to go to RubyConf next week, but you don’t have a ticket, you’re in luck! Sadly, I can’t go, so I have a ticket available for sale for $250. Drop me a line at ben at this domain if you’re interested.

Update: Sold!