Tag Archives: ruby

Blog Move 1: Getting WordPress data to Ruby using XML

Posted on June 5, 2010 by David

Step 1 in the “Moving my blog” process is “Extract the current site’s data into a manageable format” Frankly, that’s easy! WordPress has a functionality to export the site’s content to a single XML file containing all the published Categories, … Continue reading →

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Rails / LAMP / WordPress Setup Guide

Posted on May 7, 2009 by David

I’ve had huge amounts of pain getting WordPress set up locally over the last few weeks on my old machine and when it struck again with my new development environment it definitely time to write down the required steps to … Continue reading →

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Ruby Uninitialized Constant Error (Mental Note)

Posted on April 14, 2008 by David

The reason I always get initialized constant errors occurring in Ruby is accidentally naming models the plural form of the database table name and not letting Rails automatically create the pluralisations. script/generate scaffold contact_skill contact_id:integer skill_id:integer description:string not script/generate scaffold … Continue reading →

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