Monthly Archives: July 2011

Rails 3 and geokit

Posted on July 25, 2011 by

Or: A quick tutorial to get your application up and running with rails and geokit. Say you’re running a webapp which realizes where the user is located and offers this users the nearest yoga courses. Or the best deals in … Continue reading →

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Ruby 1.9: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)

Posted on July 18, 2011 by

If you ever get an error like this: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII) when running a ruby script with ruby 1.9 containing non ASCII chars like ‘ä’, ‘ü’, ‘ö’ etc changes are good that you forgot to add a # coding: … Continue reading →

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Checking the current request URI with cucumber…

Posted on July 15, 2011 by

….is fascinatingly easy, but it really took me a while to figure it out. How would you implement the this step definition? Then I should be on the city page for “Hamburg” Quite easy: Then /^I should be on the … Continue reading →

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