I was getting frustrated with the idea of updating my sitemap.xml every time I created a new article on this blog. So I started mulling through the Mephisto Wiki and found a Mephisto Google Sitemap Plugin from Stephen Caudill which works great! I would have left a comment on his site, but it appears that comments have been turned off. So I’m leaving an endorsement here....

After much trial and error, and frustration, I have finally come up with what I believe is the best possible way to do multiple select combo boxes in Rails. It’s not so much that there aren’t examples on the web, it’s just that every example is so different. I’ve used what I feel is the best from each example and created this example. First, it’s best that the options are in an array somewhere. In this...

RubyWeaver is an IDE for Ruby and Rails in Dreamweaver. This extension originally came from RidingTheClutch.com which seems to have mysteriously disappeared, along with it’s original author Rob Cameron whom I have tried to contact with regards to RubyWeaver, but with no avail. I’ve taken the liberty to make this extension available once again to those who are looking for it, which I believe to be many. Since Macromedia (Adobe)...

I don’t know if it’s because the Lucid theme for Mephisto was ported from Typo, but it was displaying the timestamp on my entries as UTC instead of MST, which is what I told Mephisto my time zone is in the Settings. Apparently Lucid uses JavaScript to convert the timestamp into a more descriptive time (“about an hour ago”) if the timestamp is less than a week old and otherwise displays the date. Without having enough...

For a minute, I thought my comments were not working or were being blocked on this site. I could post one comment, but anything after that didn’t work. I spent most of the morning trying to figure out why it was happening and thinking I’d broken something while tweaking my theme or something. I also wondered if it was some type of built in spam protection that I didn’t know about. Then, as I was browsing through the...