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Truncating Text With CSS 5 Oct 2012 | 06:11 am
Often you have text that you want to fit in a certain amount of space. For instance, with Doorkeeper, we want to truncate the title of the next event to fit nicely like the following. One way to do t...
Mobalean becomes a Heroku partner 28 Sep 2012 | 10:46 am
Mobalean has been a long-time fan of the cloud application platform Heroku, so we are proud to announce that we have been accepted into the Heroku Partner Program. Heroku helps us do development in t...
Cleaning up your CSS with selectors 8 May 2012 | 06:59 pm
I noticed that one of the input fields on one of our sites was not being styled properly. For the project, we're using the Ruby on Rails gem simple form for generating our forms. In addition to re...
請求書.jpのスタンドファーム社への譲渡について 15 Mar 2012 | 02:17 pm
この度、平成 24 年 4 月 15 日をもって請求書.jpを弊社よりスタンドファーム株式会社へ完全譲渡し、スタンドファーム社の運営するクラウド請求書管理サービス「misoca」へ移行することとなりました。 請求書.jpは、私達の主要サービスのひとつであり、多くの方々に使っていただいておりました。しかし、昨年秋にスタンドファーム社様のクラウド請求書管理サービス「misoca」を知り、それは...
The Joy of Gems: Cooking up Rails Plugins 13 Jan 2012 | 10:25 pm
Last night I presented at Cookpad’s Tokyo Rails event. This installment had the largest turn out I’ve seen so far, with at least forty participants. I think word’s gotten out that Tokyo Rails has the ...
Dynamic Methods vs. Method Missing 8 Sep 2011 | 09:38 pm
For a class I'm organizing on metaprograming in Ruby, we’re using Metaprograming Ruby as a textbook. In the chapter Tuesday: Methods, the book introduces two techniques for removing duplication: d...
Guessing a String's Encoding Under Ruby 1.9 3 Sep 2011 | 06:06 am
For our Japanese invoicing solution, 請求書.jp, we record the initial HTTP referrer for each user who signs up to our service. Search engines have standardize on the q parameter to represent a search que...
PDF generation and Heroku 3 Aug 2011 | 12:07 am
For 請求書.jp, we wanted to provide our users with a way to generate PDF versions of invoices. We used the PDFKit gem (https://github.com/jdpace/PDFKit), which by itself is a thin wrapper around wkhtmlto...
A Step Towards Internationalizing the Japanese Ruby Community 21 Jul 2011 | 05:13 am
Aaron Patterson’s opening keynote at this year’s RubyKaigi once again raised the issue of communication between Japanese and international Rubyists. This topic also came up in Akira Matsuda’s and S...
Rubyを使っての英語学習 15 Jul 2011 | 07:40 am
Rubyは日本で開発されたプログラミング言語で、CRubyのコア実装に関わった多くのコントリビューター（貢献者）は、日本人です。 しかしながら、日本人ではないRubyユーザは、日本人よりはるかに多く存在します。 Web開発のフレームワークとして成功を収めているRuby on Railsを例にとっても、約1000人のコントリビューターの中で、日本人は1%以下です。これは、日本でRubyが十分に活用で...
