Los Graduados (Taken with Instagram at Horizonte)
The lineup (Taken with Instagram at Horizonte)
Taken with Instagram at Horizonte
Prayer Requests!!
I’m working on my newsletter right now, but figured I’d go ahead and post my prayer requests now. Prayer is super important. God already knows everything we need and I’ve had some non-christians ask me why we even pray. Surely we can’t command the God of the universe to do our will.
That’s exactly right, we can’t and shouldn’t even try. We pray for several reasons: (1) God commanded us to do it. (2) Communication is integral to any relationship. (3) It helps us to conform to His will. That third one is, in my opinion, the most important reason. When you’re confused about something and you go to a person you know who is wise or an expert on the subject, you tell them your problem and explain your thoughts on the topic, but your objective isn’t to change their perspective to yours but the opposite. Afterwards, the wise person/expert clarifies things, gives advice, or maybe confirms that you’re on the right track.
That’s kind of how prayer works (granted it’s more than just that, but that’s one aspect). God is the expert, of course, and we come to Him, explaining where we’re at on this or that. He then works in us to conform us to His will.
On to the List
So anyways, here’s some recent prayer requests for me:
- For wisdom and skill with finishing v1.0 of Armory. It’s crunch-time and I’ve got a lot to do.
- That I would have a greater hunger for the Word and a greater love for the Lord
- For the summer, that there would be lots of progress and the teams that come would be blessed
- Provision for, among other things, that I’m planning on going to Mexico City this summer for the Pastor’s Conference
- For the graduates this semester, that the Lord would use them a ton for His glory!
Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them. Let us break the seal which binds these holy things; let us give wings to truth that it may fly with the Word, no longer prepared at vast expense, but multitudes everlasting by a machine which never wearies to every soul which enters life.
Thomas staring at his Mac (Taken with Instagram at Café Con Leche)
Simple Problem (and Solution) with ActiveRecord Relations
I had a simple beginner’s problem with using a scope to find records in my db:
@sub = Sub.where(:id => :sub_id)
It would pull the correct records fine, but when I’d want to access that info through helpers like @sub.name, it would throw and undefined method ‘name’ error. The problem is very simple though. Since a scope isn’t guaranteed to be one record, you either have to use a block:
@sub.each do |sub|
...
end
Or, use something more definitive, like the find() method:
@sub = Sub.where(:id => :sub_id).find(:first)
Even though I know the first example should return only one record, it’s not certain. If you look at the class of the returned object from a scope, it says ActiveRecord::Relation whereas records returned with the find method will have the class of the model that called them.
It seems simple, but it took me the longest time to find this bit of information, so here you go.
La simpatía no es un sustituto para la acción.
Sympathy is no substitute for action.
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Here’s the gist of it
Thanks to God, we’ve been making progress on the online school. For those that don’t know, we’re working on making a web application (in spanish) for people to be able to take Bible classes online. So far, the basic structure for the application is in place and users can login/logout and signup. The next step is to finish the User management functionality and then make the test-taking features.
The goal of all this is not just to have a Bible College online for us. We are making the source code open source as well, which means that it will be freely available to others to help in starting physical or online Bible Colleges. We are praying that this will not only be a blessing to the people of Mexico, but to the rest of the world as well, since it will be easily translated into other languages. If you’d like to know more about the technical details, check out github.com/gorrillamcd/armory/.
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