Author Archives: Danny

About Danny

Primarily a Ruby On Rails developer, but I can do other cool stuff too.

Rails3 beta3 Authlogic metaclass error

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Danny

I noticed this problem when I tried to use authlogic today: undefined method `metaclass’ for Authlogic::Session::Base:Class (NoMethodError) Turns out the fix is pretty simple bpauly posted a comment on http://railsplugins.org with the following: metaclass has been deprecated in favor of … Continue reading →

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SRC10 – Breaking things with Ruby talk

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Danny

Presenter: Rory McCune The breaking things with Ruby session was all about penetration testing and security. It was one of the best sessions I attended while at SRC. A couple of tools and techniques were demonstrated, and the Pen testing … Continue reading →

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Google chrome select and CSS

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Danny

If you try and set a background image in a select element in Google chrome and you get shading over the top of the element which completely buggers up the element, I think it’s a bug. I’ve managed to get … Continue reading →

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A couple of funny videos

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Danny

Best Fails of 2009: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/07/best-fails-of-2009-video_n_414549.html Compare the Meerkat: http://film.comparethemeerkat.com/

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Automatically generating a sitemap in rails

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Danny

I recently had the need to generate a sitemap using a cron job on a regular basis (nightly) for my ruby on rails app. I found the excellent plugin from Chrisian Hellsten at http://github.com/christianhellsten/sitemap-generator. Which did the trick very nicley. … Continue reading →

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Problem with cucumber external selenium testing

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Danny

I have added a features folder to my wordpress install and got a lovely gem called cucumber-wordpress to write cucumber driven tests for wordpress. I decided to get clever and setup selenium cucumber and normal cucumber webrat profiles. I’ve done … Continue reading →

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IE fixed width select input bug

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Danny

IE truncates options within a select if the options are longer than the width of the select control. Somehow EVERY OTHER BROWSER manages to expand the options while keeping the select at the fixed width, another reason why ie sucks!!! … Continue reading →

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jQuery storing data in a tag using internals

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Danny

I had a problem where I needed to store the old name of an input tag so that I could reference what it used to be called. I used the rel attribute to store this (as is common practice) but … Continue reading →

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How to make a wordpress plugin

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Danny

So I had my first exposure to writing a wordpress plugin yesterday. It was such a pleasant and easy experience that I thought I better give a little back. So here’s my step by step guide to creating a very … Continue reading →

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New Beginnings

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Danny

Time to get my blog back on the go. Starting fresh, no history just a brand new slice of life, code and adventure (if we’re lucky)

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