Author Archives: ekeretex

Zend_Db_Table dynamic finders

Posted on June 15, 2009 by ekeretex

The recently added Zend_Navigation component uses dynamic finders to find pages e.g. findOneByLabel(‘Home’) to return the first matching page with label Home (and that’s straight from the manual). It would be nice if Zend_Db_Table could do this too but it … Continue reading →

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Zend Framework deployment with Capistrano

Posted on May 8, 2009 by ekeretex

After playing around with Phing for a while I decided to bring the simplicity of Capistrano – which I have been using with my Rails apps – to our Zend Framework project at work. Surprisingly it wasn’t hard at all. … Continue reading →

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Zend Framework and the cost of flexibility

Posted on May 7, 2009 by ekeretex

I have had to downgrade my copy of the Zend Framework to 1.7.8 after 5 mins of ‘upgrading’ to 1.8.0 to get access to all the promised goodies (Zend Tool, Zend Application, Zend Navigation, etc). Unfortunately, Zend_Loader::registerAutoload has been deprecated … Continue reading →

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Rails makes you think you can

Posted on April 21, 2009 by ekeretex

I spent a couple of hours last weekend going over a Rails app I wrote almost two years ago. It was the very first Rails application I had written (apart from the follow-the-screencast throwaway ones) and I couldn’t help cringing … Continue reading →

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Finally… passenger for nginx

Posted on April 17, 2009 by ekeretex

I just spent last weekend setting up a new slice at SliceHost (my bestest host ever) for a couple of Rails apps only to read this post announcing the release of Phusion Passenger for Nginx. Considering I only needed the … Continue reading →

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Jazz up your phpunit test results

Posted on February 1, 2009 by ekeretex

I use RedGreen when working on rails projects and have gotten used to the visual feedback I get when tests pass or fail. It has definitely helped with my Red-Green-Refactor flow. I just found out phpunit supports colors in tests … Continue reading →

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Jara Base – a base Zend Framework app

Posted on January 21, 2009 by ekeretex

I recently had to set up a Zend Framework project at a friend’s house and realized how reliant I am on Zend Studio to set up a fresh project. Meet Jara Base – the ZF starter app and my solution … Continue reading →

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Zend Framework titbits

Posted on January 18, 2009 by ekeretex

There are a couple of Zend Framework snippets and how-tos I find myself googling over and over again. I have decided to maintain this list and keep adding to it as I go along. Bypassing Zend_Db prepared statements:For complex queries, … Continue reading →