poocs.net poocs.net Assorted ramblings and rails notes Gwen on Rails scoop Jan. 09 1 comment no trackbacks Personal Rails   Back from my hiatus (kinda) scoop Dec. 27 After a little more than 2 months of silence in this place (well, this place, not our place, there’s still that baby “issue” :)) I’m hereby pushing a little life into it again. Read more... 2 comments no trackbacks Personal Rails   Typo gets its own theme contest scoop Oct. 10 Geoffrey Grosenbach of nubyonrails and Ruby on Rails Podcast fame today launched a Typo theme contest with hosting provided by yours truly. Having launched with a built-in theming engine in version 2.5, the sheer lack of available themes for the typo weblogging engine was no longer tolerable. Luring designers with prizes such as an iPod nano, several software licenses, Rails books or hosting should be enough to get this situation rectified shortly. Thanks for attending. 1 comment no trackbacks Typo   Localization for Ruby's Time#strftime scoop Oct. 04 While numerous articles out there talk about the possibilities to use the Ruby Gettext package to translate your Rails application, I found that for my applications they were missing the point of translating the dates. Although the aforementioned Rails Wiki entry does override the class constants MONTHNAMES , DAYNAMES and the like, this does not affect date strings composed via Time#strftime . Another thing I found was the Multi Language Library which sounded promising, was still in its very infants though ( and had its la