shamne's soup

In one of my projects I had to use I18n and I had a problem always seeing something like:
translation missing: ru.activerecord.errors.messages.record_invalid when there is no translation found.
I prefer to see default English translation if there is a translation missing error, why not ?
Especially in development mode.
So here is a small piece of code that you can put into config/initializers folder:

module I18n
  def self.custom_handler(exception, locale, key, options)
    case exception
    when I18n::MissingTranslationData
      I18n::Backend::Simple.new.translate(:en, key, options || {})
    else
      raise exception
    end
  end
end
I18n.exception_handler = :custom_handler

Once i started searching and subscribing to feeds, my Google Reader was rapidly filled up with all that shit (kidding), i meant interesting news posts. In order to make Google Reader easier to use and to make sure that i'm reading feeds that are important to me i have to get it organized. It seems very easy with all these tools in Google Reader, but in reality i tried many times and still missing lots of interesting posts from the feeds, maybe i just don't have time to read all that super organized mess ))

Reading blogs helps us remain valuable in our space. Sometimes it's hard to find time but there are ways to make that time efficient and once you got an organized list of favorite news sites and blogs into your reader, you are done.

I organize my feeds by how important is not to miss the content from each particular feed. So first typically are blogs of friends and people that I like to follow, people which don't generate posts with the same speed as new york times, so reading this first part takes maybe 20 minutes a day. Second part of feeds contains feeds of blogs I like, but don’t need to read every day. When I find a new interesting blog to follow, I will typically put it here until i'll decide where it will go. Third part of feeds are items that i rarely read. Typically, i'll read these items only if there is nothing to read and i don't wanna go to search something in the web, so i read it even rarer than fourth part of my feeds which makes more sense because here goes the fun stuff. So in fourth part i have those feeds that i read after work at the end of the day when my brain is already broken and can not even think, and all that remains is laugh out loud.

Just an option of generating fixtures .yml files for testing.

This can be done by adding this code to application's Rakefile:

namespace :test do
  desc "Generate fixtures"
  task :new_fixtures => :environment do
    ["User", "Post", "Article"].each do |m|
      File.open("test/fixtures/#{m.constantize.table_name}.yml", 'w') do |f|
        m.constantize.find(:all).each do |i|
          f.puts "item_#{i.id}:
"
          i.attributes.each_pair do |name, value|
            f.puts "  #{name}: #{eval("i.#{name}.acts_like?(:time)", binding) ? eval("i.#{name}.to_s(:db)", binding) : value}
"
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

Then run:

rake test:new_fixtures RAILS_ENV=production