Rob Gough

Rails 4 blank page on index action

Wed, 30 Jul 2014 03:36:03 -1200

We recently had an issue where Rails 4 was giving a blank page when calling the index action on some, but not all, controllers.

After some considerable frustration the ever useful @mikespokefire managed to solve it.

Someone who shall remain nameless (but may, or may not, have been me) had configured asset pipeline to point at the same root as the main rails app, which meant that on loading it was trying to find a .js, .css, or an image file with that name before loading the normal controller action. And if you're anything like me and used a generator, you probably had more than one of the above.

The solution is as simple as configuring rails to store assets in /assets using something like the following in application.rb:

config.assets.prefix = "/assets"

And as if by magic, it now works!

Card Numbers with Trello and Safari

Fri, 27 Jun 2014 02:34:49 -1200

This is a simple Safari extension that takes Trello from;

to...

This seems like a small change, but when using Trello with teams as we do working at On The Beach then we find it makes communication so much simpler.

Thanks to @mikespokefire who wrote the original Chrome version that I couldn't live without after switching to Safari!

Code is available on github or the extension can be downloaded directly (double-click to install) download

Large-File Hunting on Mac's and *nix

Sat, 18 Jan 2014 09:19:26 -1200

I recently found ncdu which, excusing it's awful-to-remember name, is an awesome command line tool for quickly finding (and eliminating?!) those pesky large files hiding on your computer.

I really do keep forgetting the name, so this is here to remind me. It's available via apt-get on Ubuntu (and presumably Debian) and on Mac's can be installed via homebrew.