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I found this great template for creating a simple rails app

If you don't know what Rails Templates are, they are pretty much a way of generating rails code the way you want it to be generated. For example, you find yourself "always" doing the same thing over and over again to set up your authentication, a template will automat that task for you. This guy created what I think is a pretty good one

http://github.com/hectoregm/groundwork

- The Net Duck

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Best game ever! I can't stop playing

be careful, it will waste your time

http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-twitchy-online-game.html

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Make Ruby on Rails select_tag stick

I spend a couple hours yesterday trouble shooting a very minor bug in my code that had be grinding my teeth. This was the link of code

Hidden: </label><%= select_tag :hidden, options_for_select({'No' => 0, 'Doesn\'t Matter' => -1 ,'Yes' => 1}, params[:hidden]) %>

The problem here, was the last part of this code "params[:hidden] should be setting the default correctly every time the page is called again. The problem is, the contents of params[:hidden] is in string format while it should be in int format. This is an easy fix all you have to do is something like ....

params[:hidden].to_i

And your done. So in conclusion, pay attention to your data types! Ruby doesn't always handle eveything for you.

- The Net Duck

Here is the funished line that works.

Hidden: </label><%= select_tag :hidden, options_for_select({'No' => 0, 'Doesn\'t Matter' => -1 ,'Yes' => 1}, params[:hidden].to_i) %>

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Hey this isn't bad

I'm posting this from my email. I think I like this idea. Very nice. Everyone should check out posterous.com I wonder how they are going to format this photo.

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My First Blog Post

Hey this is just a test

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