authlogic plugin error/fix

I’ve seen this error lots and lots of times dealing with authlogic plugins:
rake aborted!
undefined method `add_acts_as_authentic_module’ for ActiveRecord::Base:Class
And I’ve searched on the web for answers and there’s not a really good source as to why it happens or what can be done to fix it.  Yesterday, I put an end to the error in authlogic_facebook_connect [...]


Twitter on your maintenance page

I recently started a new project.  Because the domain was purchased, one of the first acts of business was a, “Coming Soon,” page.  I decided the maintenance/deploy:web:disable page was the perfect solution.  I could put it up in production and leave it off in staging without special code shenanigans.  It would be re-usable for the [...]


Working with large (thus slow) assets

You have a website with fantastic images that are big, plentiful, and full of color.  Like a fashion website, for example.  Or maybe you’ve decided that all the text on your website needs to be in a non-web font–as images–and now you have hundreds or thousands of image files to be deployed.
What to do so [...]