Amir M. Sahib » Programming http://www.amirsahib.com echo life; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:08:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Diving into Ubuntu (again) http://www.amirsahib.com/diving-into-ubuntu-again http://www.amirsahib.com/diving-into-ubuntu-again#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:08:32 +0000 Amir Sahib http://www.amirsahib.com/?p=517 A while ago, I attempted to start using Ubuntu, but failed to install it on an old gateway laptop that didn’t have any linux drivers for audio, visual and wifi devices. Or at least I couldn’t find any online for the laptop. Due to the failure in getting it to work, I stopped my Ubuntu journey. I wasn’t ready for it. Skip forward a year later and I found myself installing Ubuntu 10.04 on my newer HP laptop. Installation was a breeze and everything worked out of the box except for some issues with double fingers on the touchpad and the right/left click ares on it. I was impressed. Wifi, bluetooth, sound, video, and pretty much everything worked instantly with Ubuntu.

As soon as I started to use it for a few hours, I noticed they took a some of their UI from Apple’s OS X and Windows. It’s the best from both OSs combined into one. Workspaces is cool. I’ve never experienced that working on Windows. I find that very useful when multitasking. I also like the way alt-tab works when switching from one item to another.

The best part of it all is developing with Ubuntu, which is the main reason I switched. I was having a hard time dealing with Windows and developing with Ruby on Rails. On Ubuntu it was extremely fast for obvious reasons. I haven’t tried developing in PHP or Java yet, but will soon.

]]> http://www.amirsahib.com/diving-into-ubuntu-again/feed 0 How to add a class to the form_for tag in Ruby on Rails http://www.amirsahib.com/how-to-add-class-to-the-form_for-tag-in-ruby-on-rails http://www.amirsahib.com/how-to-add-class-to-the-form_for-tag-in-ruby-on-rails#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:40:49 +0000 Amir Sahib http://www.amirsahib.com/?p=461 I’ve searched for a while and couldn’t figure this out until I actually picked up my book and browsed the source of examples. I’ll get straight to the code:

<% form_for :user, :url => users_path,:html => { :class => ’standard-form’ } do |f| -%>

That produces:

<form class="standard-form" method="post" action="/users">

As you can see I added a class called “standard-form” to the form tag.

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