Category: ruby on rails
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Tales from the Port: Day 1 — Dry Dock
Welcome to my one week blog series, Tales from the Port, chronicling my rewriting of Project Quincy from Ruby on Rails to Django. This series may be a little rough around the edges — I’ll be writing it every night after I accomplish my goals for that day. But I wanted to give people a…
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Partial Dates in Rails with Active Scaffold
As a historian I am constantly frustrated (but bemused) by how computers record time. They are so idealistically precise and hopelessly presentist in their default settings that creating intellectually honest digital history becomes impossible without some serious modifications. In designing Project Quincy, my open-source software package for tracing historical networks through time and space, I…
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Troubleshooting Rails Migrations
I’m not sure why this worked, but if it can help anyone else then here it goes . . . My rails app decided to throw a hissy fit at me by refusing to let me run rake db:migrate because (as it claimed) rake aborted! An error has occurred, all later migrations canceled: Mysql::Error: Table…