tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4703308014938613892009-11-06T18:15:00.372-08:00A Portland Oregon Rails UI development blog.Lee W Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03753648123913631260noreply@blogger.comBlogger412545.51854-122.675506tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470330801493861389.post-15849598783181498872008-04-29T13:01:00.000-07:002008-04-29T14:56:33.368-07:00

Unhide hidden fields during Rails development. Unhidden fields reveal themselves in grayscale to suggest their unhidden-ness. Onmouseover they'll also display their name & id. All is revealed... Rails authenticity tokens, the REST put-method work around, etc - along with our own sleight of hand hidden stuff. Also makes so you can easily change unhidden field values, since they are now just

Lee W Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03753648123913631260noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470330801493861389.post-47904400181948687812008-04-23T16:28:00.000-07:002008-04-24T13:19:27.188-07:00

I recently got started on a new rails pet project. When working on your own project you wear all the hats, call all the shots, and do all the work - for better or for worse. No matter where it falls in the end, you learn so much in the process. In that spirit, my goal is to treat this project like my own personal startup weekend session, with a focus on momentum and forward motion.

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"Dude, for a second I totally thought that link was a button!" As a user interface developer I run into The Problem With Get Requests (Agile Web Development With Rails, pg397) when working in the interface realm of a rails project - often I want to use a link where the action, or :method it

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A rails plugin for automating best practice form styling. Ahhh. Flush with my first rails plugin. Feels good! Now it's time to see what releasing one in the wild is like... Seems like a good occasion to thank all the reliable plugin producers out there who's work I've benefited from in the past. I hope my work might some day prove to be even partially as time saving and useful a

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