I am stealing this from Dave South, Logan Ruby User Group Illuminati. If I don’t extract it from my email I’ll never find it again. So I’ll ask for Dave’s forgiveness for the blatant plagiarism. Install MacPorts, first: http://www.macports.org Be sure to put /opt/local/bin and /opt/local/sbin in your path. PORT programs to install: sudo port…
Tag: Ruby On Rails
SWFUpload – the Best File Upload Utility for Any Platform
Uploading a file to a website is a pain. Uploading lots of files to a website makes the UN list of known methods of torture. At tonight’s ruby group meeting Dave South showed off SWFUpload. This has to be one of the best uses of Flash ever. Now to upload 50 files you just browse,…
The Inflector Module – Another Reason to Love Rails
I love how when you need something in Rails the solution is usually already in place. For instance in the indulgenc.es application I have the need to create a rank with 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. In most frameworks you would have to write this functionality yourself or if you are very lucky you might find…
Quick Note: use rake to install Rails 2.0
I am adding this so I don’t forget. You can install Rails 2.0 using this: rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel_2-0-1 Then if you want to keep up the with the latest edge version you can just do the standard: rake rails:freeze:edge
Configure your Free Facebook Joyent Accelerator for Capistrano
Right now Joyent is giving away free Accelerator accounts to Facebook developers. I love free stuff so this is so cool I could just cry. Free hosting with one of the premier Ruby on Rails hosts. I normally have to eat bags of M&Ms to be this happy. Not all is roses. There is a…
Setting up ZenTest and Red Green
I can’t take credit for any of these instructions. Dave South from the Logan Ruby group sent these out in an email. I am posting them so that I can find them later on. Install ZenTest: sudo gem install ZenTest</pre> Then install RedGreen sudo gem install redgreen</pre> Go to your rails project directory and create…
Stupid Error That I will Blame on Lack of Sleep
So if you are ever working oh so hard on a ruby on rails application and all of a sudden your application stops working and you have no idea why because the error looks like this: /!\ FAILSAFE /!\ Mon Nov 12 17:27:15 -0700 2007 Status: 500 Internal Server Error wrong number of arguments (1…
Working on Second Facebook Application
It is top secret, but I am working on another Facebook application. This time I am using Ruby On Rails since I don’t have to deal with legacy issues. I’ll be interested to see if there is a large performance difference. I’ll post a link when the application is ready. This time it will be…
rFacebook and redirect_to
I have been working with rFacebook to try to get a Facebook application up and running. Right now we are trying to integrate our conference application – 51weeks.com with Facebook so that our users can take advantage of existing social networks instead of having to create yet another network at he conference they are attending….
Quick Note About rFacebook, Edge Rails, and Sessions.
This problem may not be specific to rFacebook, but when I added acts_as_facebook_user to my user model and then made a call like: my_user.first_name </pre> I would get an 500 internal server error. I checked the log and saw this: CGI::Session::CookieStore::CookieOverflow I found that if I changed the app so that it uses db sessions…