Bayeux and CometD: Open Source Comet Infrastructure by Alex Russell
Bayeux and CometD: Open Source Comet Infrastructure Alex Russell, Project Lead, SitePen OK, this is a hard one to explain without going into a lot of background. And I felt a bit sorry for the...
View ArticleAdvanced Spring by Rod Johnson
The Spring man himself, Rod Johnson, gave this talk. He looks better in person than he does on this book cover. O’Reilly-mandated audience poll: Using Spring: 90% Strong knowledge: 50% Written a...
View ArticleDumb Thing I Did Recently With Rails
Turns out that dashes are not really valid hostnames in URLs. So, ‘cyclinglog.butlepress.com’ is valid, but ‘cycling_log.butlepress.com’ is not. Now, Apache virtual hosting will work with underscores...
View Articleundefined method `dbman’
Upgrading to a Rails app to 2.0 and seeing this error? ‘undefined method `dbman' for #<ActionController::TestSession You need to add this line to config/environments/test.rb:...
View ArticleObscure Oracle JDBC Exception du Jour
I ran across this exception again today, and Google didn’t anything useful until I dug in a bit. Hopefully, this will help someone else searching for UnsatisfiedLinkError and free_c_state exceptions....
View ArticleRails 2 upgrade: .rhtml to .html.erb Script
This is less a post, than a note to myself, but anyway, here’s a handy script to change your view extensions while preserving Subversion history. #! /usr/bin/env ruby require 'pathname' for path in...
View ArticleWe’re Hiring Another Rails Developer
“We” means Analog Analytics. It’s fun, personally, to be hiring now instead of trying to be hired. Here’s the job description: “Terrific opportunity for talented developer to join an exciting team...
View ArticleGoogle Group for Racing on Rails
There was a burst of interest in WSBA website development on their mailing list—enough to annoy a few non-coders at any rate. So Racing on Rails has its own Google Group for development. Here’s hoping...
View ArticleRails 2.3 Plugin Routes
As noted here http://guides.rubyonrails.org/2_3_release_notes.html and here http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/329-add-an-api-for-plugins-to-register-routes, Rails 2.3 will load...
View ArticleCapistrano via Cron or FreeBSD Periodic
Running Capistrano from cron or FreeBSD’s periodic can be tricky—both (wisely) limit your environment. Scripts may run just fine in a SSH session, but fail when run by cron.A couple of standard...
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