A few weeks ago, I added an interesting feature to Squeel, and never really said much about it other than a single tweet and a brief reference in the README. I’m calling the feature “sifters”, and I wanted to write a little bit about the purpose they serve.
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Monthly Archives: September 2011
A Belated Post on Squeel Sifters
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Sep 29, 2011
RubyConf 2011!
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Just checked into my room at the Astor Crowne Plaza for RubyConf 2011. Excited to be here and hope to meet up with as many awesome rubyists as possible. Be sure to say hi, if you see me!
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Sep 28, 2011
Prevent GoogleBot Overload with Default Nofollow
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Here’s a quick tip to exert greater control over which parts of your site a search engine should crawl: modify your link_to helper to make links rel="nofollow" by default. It’s easy:
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Sep 26, 2011
Valium 0.4.0 released, now with 100% more English
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Just a quick update about Valium 0.4.0. In 0.3.0, I enabled support for extracting attribute values from associations (a la User.posts[:id]). That was awesome, but as it turns out, not too compatible with 3.0.x associations.
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Sep 9, 2011
About
I'm Ernie Miller. But then, you probably knew that by looking at the page title, or the URL. I'm a Ruby programmer in Louisville, Kentucky. This blog used to be called "metautonomo.us", which I thought was kind of clever, but nobody, including me, could type it. Lesson learned.