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Standup 08/04/2010: Accounting on Rails anybody?
edit Posted by Abhijit Hiremagalur on Wednesday August 04, 2010 at 10:09AM

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Double-entry/ledger based accounting in Rails (i.e. Quickbooks in Rails for free)

Ideally would be tied in with user/role system where each accounting entry would be tied to a user, but also reconciled against a master account. Recommendations? Latest and greatest?

One suggestion was to look at the code that Wesabe open sourced code when they closed their doors.

Error message when opening Rubymine "Invalid Git Root"

This is likely because the project included a submodule that wasn't configured correctly, fix this in under Rubymine's version control preferences.

Add submodule screen in Rubymine

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Test 404 handling (e.g. rescue_from ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound, :with => :render_record_not_found) with Cucumber by temporarily setting ActionController::Base.allow_rescue = true. This is usually set to false in features/support/env.rb
JSON.pretty_generate hates Rails 3 Hashes

Use window.postMessage to communicate between IFrames in a standard way

This should work in most modern browsers. Follow the Mozilla docs, NOT the various blog posts about this.

Standup 01/12/2009: require & class reloading, acts_as_fu
edit Posted by Abhijit Hiremagalur on Monday January 12, 2009 at 11:52PM

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Using 'require' explicitly interferes with class reloading in Rails

Frederick Cheung discusses this in more detail here. This might be related to the Selenium + class reloading issues some pivots have experienced in recent weeks. The alternative is to rely on Rails automagic loading or 'require_dependency'.