HTML safe and escaped text in a rails view

In my skilling up in Rails application I was wanting to add in the feature to allow a user's comment/post, if it contained a URL, to make that URL clickable. A fairly simple change but one with a bit of a trick on Rails as it turns out. My first attempt was fairly straight forward. …

VIM and my configuration

As with most vim users above beginner I used to have my customised vimrc file.  Since being off vim for a while and changing machines a couple of times, I now can't find where I had stored my previously developed vimrc file so I'm building a new one.  Also in common with many other developers …

My standing workspaces

I've been a fan of the standing workspace for some time now having started trying out standing arrangements in late 2012.  After reading about the idea off and on for a couple of years before I was finally convinced to give it a try myself when I read this article. I've found a lot of benefits from …

Going live with my test application

I've been building a sample web site/application in Ruby on Rails.  I've been following the, what I think is, rather excellent tutorial by Micheal Hartl.  I've finished the base tutorial and am now looking to expand the site with some improvements and fixes I think it needs and then use it as a base to …