Archive for January 5, 2012
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Rails 3.1 - Adding custom 404 and 500 error pages
January 5, 2012
This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on January 5, 2012.
As I said when announcing the Rambling Labs new site, we’ve been learning a lot of stuff while building it.
Something that we didn’t have the chance to implement on our current projects (but that we will be including soon), is adding custom error pages to the site. So far, what we were looking for was two things: a custom 404 error page and a custom generic 500 error page.
For the experience I have now with Rails, I thought this would be a piece of cake. Well, in fact… it would’ve been if we were using Rails 2. But guess what? The error handling behavior in Rails 3 is not what you would expect. Even worse, it’s broken for routing errors!
For what I could…
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Replacing ERb with HAML on your Rails application generators
January 5, 2012
This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on January 5, 2012.
As you may know, we’ve been using HAML lately for our views.
Since I don’t plan to use ERb for my views anytime soon, I want HAML to fit in as smoothly as possible. Luckily, there is a way to replace ERb as the default generated view.
Just add this line to your
Gemfile:gem 'haml-rails'And you should be good to go!
Now, when you run
rails generate controller test method_one method_two, you should see something like this:# ... invoke haml create app/views/test create app/views/test/method_one.html.haml create app/views/test/method_two.html.haml # ...Way easier than what I thought it would be. But you know, that’s…