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Millwall (home)
11 Sep 2010
City Ground 15:00
Travel to the game by rail and find a hotel
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Preston (away)
14 Sep 2010
Deepdale 19:45
Travel to the game by rail and find a hotel
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Hull (away)
18 Sep 2010
KC Stadium 15:00
Travel to the game by rail and find a hotel
My first open source contribution
I’ve made my first contribution to the world of open source. There is a bug in Action Web Service preventing it from marshalling booleans. Change casting.rb to the following: Line 40: def cast(value, signature_type) # :nodoc: return value if signature_type.nil? # signature.length != params.length return nil if value.nil? unless signature_type.array? || signature_type.structured? return value if [...]
Read More...Testing in Rails
Go to $RAILS_APP_ROOT/test/test_helper.rb and add the following line: ActiveRecord::Base.connection.update(‘SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0′) This switches off foreign key constraints (on MySQL anyway) meaning that your tests can load and reload fixtures to their heart’s content, without getting hung up on the order of inserts and deletes.
Read More...Pride
I was very proud of Nottingham Forest over the weekend. Marlon Harewood carving open premiership defences. Daws holding his own against Wayne Rooney (one foul excepted). JJ nicking two points off Manchester United. But of course, the real Forest lose 3-0 to Yeovil. Worse than lose. They give up. Can’t be arsed. Spit on the [...]
Read More...Rish’s tribute to Ronnie Barker
There’s nothing more to add … Ronnie Barker1929-2005 I have never before felt compelled to write a tribute piece, but was curiously moved by yesterday’s announcement of the passing of Ronnie Barker. The only other time I can remember feeling so upset about the passing of a public figure, it was last year when Sir [...]
Read More...SOAP clients in Ruby
I ran into some problems getting my Rails prototype to talk to an ASP.NET web service the other day. It turns out that the Rails Web Service client isn’t really designed to talk to anything other than a Rails application, so instead I had to use the inbuilt Ruby SOAP client, as designed by Hiroshi [...]
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