UI Tips for Flash messages in Rails

By Ben Wiseley

This is a quick how to to get nice pop-over, auto-fade, auto-hide-on-click flash notices on your site.

Using Rails 3.2 (Asset Pipeline), CoffeeScript, SCSS/SASS, and Twitter/Bootstrap

Moving from RVM to RBENV

By Ben Wiseley

Moving from RVM to RBENV is pretty straightforward but here are some gotcha's I ran into migrating my two system.

First: rvm implode

Simple strategy for Redis in Ruby-on-Rails

By Ben Wiseley

Here's a simple "it just works" approach to using Redis in your Rails app.

Quick background first. Redis requires a redis-server to be running. A redis-server runs against a port (the default port is 6381). While you can use name-spacing strategies to use the same redis-server for multiple redis db's it's not recommended (see KISS principle).