the.railsi.st

the.railsi.st is Patrick Crowley.

I'm a Ruby developer and this blog is a record of my experiences using Ruby on Rails to build web apps.

I also run SD Ruby, a local Ruby group in San Diego known for its podcast.

Plugins

  • Headliner - DRY up page titles
  • Styler - Stylesheets made easy
  • Javascripter - Organize your .js

Podcasts

I've given several talks about Ruby.

  • PaperclipPaperclip
  • Headliner & StylerHaml & Sass
  • Headliner & StylerHeadliner & Styler
  • Rails for Legacy appsRails for Legacy apps
  • ActsNakedActsNaked
  • ActsAsTaggableActsAsTaggable
  • Summer of RailsSummer of Rails

Recent work

  • SD Ruby
  • Graffletopia
  • Measured Voice
  • Summer of Rails
  • Chumby

Consulting

I'm available for freelance.

Contact me at
or mokolabs (aim).

Working with Rails

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Jul 09, 2009

Saying goodbye to Subversion

Jun 13, 2008

Sass version of Eric Meyer's Reset

Mar 26, 2008

Helper for converting links into Markdown

Nov 27, 2007

Roll your own attachment_fu validations

Nov 20, 2007

New talk: Haml and Sass in 15 minutes

Nov 15, 2007

How to use Haml with ActionMailer

Nov 14, 2007

New SD Ruby podcast episodes

Sep 28, 2007

Helper for generating Technorati tags

Aug 22, 2007

Javascripter: Organize your javascript

Aug 21, 2007

How to customize attachment_fu file names

Aug 20, 2007

Problems installing restful_auth?

Aug 16, 2007

Headliner and Styler talk

Jul 16, 2007

Headliner bug fix

Jul 15, 2007

Styler adds support for nested stylesheets

May 25, 2007

Don't use finders with validation helpers

May 23, 2007

RailsConf 2007

May 11, 2007

Helper for making FAQ top links

May 09, 2007

Roll your own in-place editor

May 03, 2007

Styler: Stylesheets made easy

May 03, 2007

Headliner: DRY up your page titles

May 02, 2007

Don't use flash for a controller method name

Apr 29, 2007

How to DRY up your stylesheet includes

Apr 28, 2007

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