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The most effective way to build an accessible site is to write good markup

The most effective way to build an accessible site is to write good markup

If you produce well written HTML you shouldn’t have to do anything clever to make your site accessible.

has_many :through polymorphic with STI

has_many :through polymorphic with STI

The code for has_many :through polymorphic is pretty straightforward but what if you are using Single Table Inheritance (STI) on either or both sides of the polymorphic through table? There were a number of painful hacks to make this work until a patch to ActiveRecord by Trevor Squires added the :source_type key to has_many :through [...]

Developing a Facebook Platform application from your local machine (with Ruby on Rails)

Developing a Facebook Platform application from your local machine (with Ruby on Rails)

You have a laptop, a sever and a Facebook app. Ideally, Facebook would talk to your development machine. But what if you don’t have a static ip address and you can’t use dynamic dns or port forwarding? vReverse SSH Tunneling is what you need my friend. The following is a step by step tutorial of [...]