The Opryland hotel for Ruby Hoedown 2009 is amazing

Let me encourage any Ruby programmer considering coming to Nashville for the Ruby Hoedown August 28-29: the Gaylord Opryland hotel is amazing. Opryland Hotel To summarize the hotel:  imagine that Disney’s imagineers captured Charleston/Savannah/New Orleans at their best, and put them under a giant glass case of climate-controlled, always-spring gardenland.  The inside of the hotel-land is...

Paperclip, Amazon S3 for Rails file uploads

I loved using the Rails plugin Paperclip along with Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (’s3′) to do file attachments and uploads in Ruby on Rails. Here are some of the missing steps from using the Paperclip instructions at github and other places. 1) Your model (the one you are attaching file to) will need something like this: has_attached_file :profile_pic, :styles => { :medium...

Creation Museum in NYTimes

Very excited to see the Creation Museum get covered in the NY Times*. I haven’t been to the Creation Museum yet, but its special to me because it’s parent ministry, Answers in Genesis has been a very helpful resource in answering many questions about the Bible and science. From my 5 years of following and supporting their ministry, I testify that these are solid, biblically-faithful,...