Every so often you get your ass kicked by something and you just need to write down all of the quirks. Dotenv was today’s culprit. At AMA we start up our blessing of unicorns using foreman (which...
Avoiding Forks with Gem Extensions
Gems are one of the best things of the Ruby ecosystem. There’s pretty much a gem for everything. But what happens when that gem needs a slight tweak to work with your app? Eventually as you create ...
Pull Requests/Code Reviews don't have to be Offensive
Code reviews are a pain. They take time away from development, disrupt workflow, and can even cause conflicts among teammates. However, I think we can all agree that they’re a necessary part of li...
RyanonRails.com is dead, long live ryanjones.io!
I’ve decided to move away from ryanonrails.com and move over to ryanjones.io. When I first picked ryanonrails.com it seemed like a clever play on Ruby on Rails (it was clever, right?), but througho...
Hosting Octopress with Amazon S3 and Cloudfront
I recently set up this blog and I figured as my first “real” post I could go through the steps it took to set this up. I gleaned quite a bit of information from quite a few sites, but I still felt ...
Blog upgrade!
I haven’t been blogging for the past year or so, and I hope to change that soon. I’ve been writing down topics for the past few months, so I plan to pull from that pool for the next while or so. T...
MVC3 Ninject/Nunit Unit Tests
Here’s some example code for MVC 3 & 4 unit tests. Using Ninject/Moq/Nunit/Repositories using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using NUnit.Framework; using EST.Contr...
CRM/SSRS - Error: One or more data source credentials required to run the report have not been specified.
I ran into this error again. I think I’ve got it all figured out. Here’s the excerpt from the log: Unhandled Exception: System.ServiceModel.FaultException`1[[Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.OrganizationServi...
MVC3 - Make sure that the controller has a parameterless public constructor.
I recently ran into this issue when I was accessing my WEBapi controller. I’m actually using MVC4, but I have ran into the same error in both MVC3 and MVC4. System.InvalidOperationException An er...
batman.js - Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method "dispatch" of undefined
I ran in to this error: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method ‘dispatch’ of undefined The first thing to check is that your route exists. I created a utility located here: https://github...