After slogging through connecting Rails and Sugar via SOAP, I was tired and frustrated. The API is slow, and doing anything meaningful took a long…

I have long wanted to make sure my CRM system (SugarCRM) and my project management system synchonized certain data, mainly company names. I hate having…

This is another one that should have been obvious. But, I was getting it wrong. Maybe it had something to do with upgrading to Rails…

I don’t know why this took a while to figure out, but it did. If you are using the stock Rails in_place_editor_field, you know it…

It took me a little while, but I finally got this working. You’ll need the iCalendar plugin. require ‘icalendar’  def view_ical   request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(‘/calendars/calendar.ics’) …

Nested resources in Ruby on Rails are sort of neat, but they are a pain to implement. What’s more, I have to ask myself, why…

Geoffrey Grosenbach’s Ruby on Rails plugin calendar_helper is simple and easy to use. Maybe I’m just picky, but one part of it just wasn’t working…

This one is harder than it seems. But, I figured out a way. The trick and breakthrough came from Teflon Ted. With a regular form,…

It seems like it would take a lot of work to get the in_place_editor to work in a partial on a collection, but it does.…