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by Nigel Ball...

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…

Started
…E
../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.

Never be caught short again

Did you know that some part of your taxes are spent by our Government on maintaining a National Public Toilet Map?

Yep, sure is, just click on the link and before you can cross your legs you’ll have a full color map marking the location of the nearest public toilet!

The site proudly announces that it is […]

The Power of a List (or two)

As I scanned my email folder this morning there was an email from one of Armand Morin a widely known internet marketeer. Now his marketing machine sends literally millions of emails every day to people interested in marketing online. I read the emails he sends me from time to time if only to keep up […]

Our Family Tree

Some time ago several members of the family researched and collated the family tree covering the Ball, Reith and Doyle branches.

My involvement, for what it is worth, is to have made the data available at tree.nigelball.org using the Opensource software Geneweb

Unfortunately, whilst I am extremely interested in the family tree, and family history in general, […]

Do You Know Your Online Id?

Have you Googled yourself recently? It’s not a bad idea to do this from time to time remembering that others are probably doing it and quite possibly making decisions based on the outcome.

Prospective employers, clients and others thinking about forming some sort of relationship with you, or just the plain old curious, will do a […]

How Scary is This!

Anyone even remotely connected with online developments, or who wants to be seen as an expert in some field, has to start their own blog. But how intimidating is the first day…

I’ve had a couple of experimental blogs, spent some time creating the template for this blog, and here it is, nothing posted.

All the blogs […]

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