Hi, I am Jan. This is my old Ruby blog. I still post about Ruby, but I now do it on idiosyncratic-ruby.com. You should also install Irbtools to improve your IRB.

Organise your code comments with rake notes:todo!

November 2009, rails · hints · working-environment · regex · rake

Lots of IDEs (e.g. Netbeans) and some editors (e.g. gedit with plugins) have a nice feature: They show comments, which start with something like TODO or FIXME. Those annotations are quickly written and they make it harder to forget some things you wanted to (or have to) do.

I have just discovered that Rails has this feature already built-in!

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Rack::NoTags

November 2009, ruby · rails · xml · rack · security · xss · regex

This is my submission for the CodeRack contest:

A middleware that removes < and > from all incoming requests.

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