EnvyCasts
Now, I’m not usually one for plugging paid-for services. I’m an open-and-free kind of chap at heart. However, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and while there is a free option for this particular service- that being Rails videocasts- one must be reminded that a free lunch is going to taste worse than [...]
EVE Metrics gets Location-Aware
I’ve been working on EVE Metrics as well as my out-of-game EVE map (still without a real name) over the past few days. First things first- EVE Metrics now provides indexes. Ever since the Matari Mineral Index closed trading, corps have been limited in choice for indexes on various items. EVE Metrics is now providing [...]
Selectively modifying attr_accessible
I came across the need to have a user list with checkboxes for ‘admin’ and ‘fleet_commander’ to allow them to be set. Which works great- until you realise that your user model is protected from forms setting those fields! This was using the ‘Toggle Attributes with Ajax’ recipe from ‘Advanced Rails Recipes’- an excellent book, [...]