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by Nigel Ball...

Return-Path for ActionMailer

Having spent several hours trying to get this to work, thought I’d share it with the world!

The Goal

When sending emails from an automated service like RSS:Forward it is common to want the return-path and the reply-to headers to be different.

This lets the receiver of the email reply to the author of the email while […]

fter much development, review and some false starts, a new web site has been launched with my assistance. It is for the Australia Tibet Council a not-for-profit organisation campaigning for a Free Tibet.

The site covers an interesting range of services for its readership, and for members of the organisation…

an information portal a place to purchace Tibet […]

Rails testing with sqlite

Just a quick note with an answer to an issue which has been bugging me for days.

The problem

Tests run OK within Eclipse but fail miserably from the command line with an error like…

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../lib/sqlite3/errors.rb:94:in `check’: cannot rollback – no transaction is active (SQLite3::SQLException)

The diagnosis

It seems that the test runner automatically loads fixtures even if not asked […]

New Hosted Application

Over the last couple of months I have been diligently working on a new Hosted Application, RSS:Forward. The application finally reached sufficient maturity last night to be exposed to the world! This process makes having a baby look easy…

Anyway, promotion of the service will start over the next couple of weeks, so keep listening.