Monthly Archives: November 2008

Quick and Dirty Messaging

Our Rails Rumble 2008 entry, Great Minds (you can have a look at the latest version or the original Rumble version), required a messaging system. Such systems are easy to do wrong, and we knew we’d need something that would … Continue reading

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Don’t try to be smarter than ActiveRecord

When you’re writing conditions for a finder in ActiveRecord, and you want to use an array of values for a sql in() statement, you might think to help ActiveRecord out and comma-separate the array values like this: type_ids = [1, … Continue reading

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The fruits of my labor with color and design

As you know from my previous post, I’ve been learning a bit about color and design. I’ve taken what I’ve learned to help redesign our game site, Great Minds, from v1.1 to v1.9 and finally v2.0. Obviously there’s a bunch of important stuff going on between v1.1 and v1.9, but there are very subtle, yet important things happening between v1.9 and v2.0. Continue reading

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