Amazon Wishlist RSS

As a follow up to the post I did a bit back explaining how to write ruby code to talk to Amazon.com I have also built a site that makes it simple to get your Amazon.com Wishlist…

October 26, 2009

no <processor_id> configured for <Any>

If you are using Jeweler and get this error: no configured for Check out the troubleshooting section: You need to edit ~/.rubyforge/auto-config.yml and make sure processor\_ids is…

October 16, 2009

Justin and Joel’s Epic Mountain Bike Adventure

So today I and Joel decide to go ride mountain bikes. I’ve been stuck in the house all week writing code because I’m to big of a wimp to go ride in the rain. He talks me into a…

October 15, 2009 · 25 photos

Configure Your wp-config.php for Database Access on Mac OSX 10.6

I ran into another problem trying to get my database to work on 10.6. The trick is to properly set DB\_HOST:

October 4, 2009

WordPress on Mac OSX 10.6

I do a little WordPress work on my site using my Mac. After upgrading to Snow Leopard I started getting errors like this: _ Warning: strtotime(): It is not safe to rely on the…

October 4, 2009

Gems on an EngineYard Solo instance

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…

September 12, 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…

September 10, 2009

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…

September 8, 2009

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…

September 2, 2009

Snakeversary

One year ago today I trashed my knee while riding up Blacksmith Fork Canyon after running over a rattlesnake. This is how my knee looked then: My leg is straight so it is harder…

August 23, 2009 · 2 photos

Family Trip Day One

Day one of the annual Ball family trip is now complete. We started the day by taking a long time to pack as usual and yelling at the kids. The first stop was the train museum in…

August 17, 2009

Rubyforge and no <processor_id> configured for <Any>

I’ve been using jeweler to setup a new gem. I followed the instructions provided, but started getting “ configured for “ when I tried to do release my gem with “rake…

August 17, 2009

to_json gives TypeError Exception: wrong argument type Hash (expected Data)

Tonight for no apparent reason my tests started turning up this error whenever I tried to call to\_json:

August 17, 2009

Updating Genlighten from Rails 2.2.2 to Rails 2.3.2

I can’t resist new stuff so I’m updating Genlighten to Rails 2.3.2. This release comes with some pretty sweet additions like Rack. Here’s what I had to do: Set RAILS\_GEM\_VERSION…

August 17, 2009

Interesting testing issue with Rails 2.3.3

I’m not sure if this applies to all the versions of Rails, but right now I’m using the latest 2.3.3. I’m using shoulda to do testing and my code looks like this:

July 24, 2009

jQuery.ajax – Get in Firefox, Post in Internet Explorer

The docs for jQuery.ajax indicate that by default the request is made using ‘GET’. I would still recommend setting the type to ‘GET’. We just deployed a site and found that for…

July 8, 2009

Implicit multipart emails using Ruby on Rails and ActionMailer won’t work

I’ve been beating my head against the wall trying to figure out why html emails from my Rails Engine are sent out as plain text ie the email shows up with all the html tags…

June 26, 2009

Sending email with Ruby on Rails 2.3.2 and gmail

If you need an easy way to setup email for your company or for a client it’s hard to not love Google Apps. (The ‘standard’ ie free version is here). It is very likely that at some…

June 25, 2009

jeweler and the empty gemspec

I’ve been racking my brain trying to figure out why my gemspec for a new gem had no files in it. I’m using jeweler to build the gem and it’s worked great in the past. Then I read…

June 24, 2009

New Uploader Gem

I just pushed out a new uploader gem. Get the new code from github or install the gem with sudo gem install uploader. This comes with a few more translations and a fix for a nasty…

June 20, 2009