I started running into a few issues on an Engineyard Solo instance with my muck gems. Basically, muck consists of a lot of Rails engines packaged as gems for reusability. When we release a new app we also need to release new versions of the gems since that’s where most of guts of the lives….
Month: September 2009
gems:unpack for gems that don’t unpack
I couldn’t figure out why my gems wouldn’t unpack until I ran across this: http://metaclass.org/2009/4/13/rake-gems-unpack. My gems have rake tasks and I have to include them in the app’s rakefile to make them available so Rails won’t unpack them. I did this instead: def muck_gems [‘cms-lite’, ‘disguise’, ‘uploader’, ‘muck-solr’, ‘muck-raker’, ‘muck-engine’, ‘muck-users’, ‘muck-activities’, ‘muck-comments’, ‘muck-profiles’,…
Mac OSX and the Samsung ML1740 on a network
I’m mostly posting this so I don’t forget since it seems like I have to reinstall my printer driver often enough to be annoying but not often enough to remember. I run my Samsung 1740 on my wife’s computer and share it to the other computers on my network. The driver isn’t built in so…
Amazon Wishlist RSS, Ruby and Signing/Authenticating your Requests
UPDATE: If you don’t want to bother with the code and instead would just like to get your Amazon.com Wishlist rss you can go here. I’ve been playing with the Amazon API lately. At first I just wanted to get the RSS feed to my wish list and I followed the direction in this article…