Random GraphQL
I went through a bunch of videos today on my graphql refresher journey. Half the videos deal with graphql and ruby and the other are from a series that uses graphql with meteor…
Ruby
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Why the Lucky Stiff’s Gifts to the Ruby World
If you write Ruby you must see these. The Least Surprised in “UnboundMyth’d” Your browser does not support iframes. Malsky contemplates the dear friendship of the Ruby programming…
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Why the Lucky Stiff’s Gifts to the Ruby World
If you write Ruby you must see these. The Least Surprised in “UnboundMyth’d” Your browser does not support iframes. Malsky contemplates the dear friendship of the Ruby programming…
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Why the Lucky Stiff’s Gifts to the Ruby World
If you write Ruby you must see these. The Least Surprised in “UnboundMyth’d” Your browser does not support iframes. Malsky contemplates the dear friendship of the Ruby programming…
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Firefox, Vimeo and Froogaloop Have a Little Problem
On one of our latest projects we’re integrating with Vimeo. They provide a great Video player API that makes it pretty simple to interact with videos. Vimeo even provides the…
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Omniauth, Devise and Facebook Client Login Don’t Play Nice
I’ve had to use Facebook login inside an iframe twice now. Combine Devise with omniauth and omniauth-facebook and you have a pretty great user authentication system. Now try to…
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jQuery ajax request yields statusText: No Transport
If you write code you hate Internet Explorer. You get everything just right in Chrome, Firefox, Safari – any other browser really and then everything falls apart in Internet…
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Install RVM on Mac OSX Mountain Lion
I recently moved over to a new Macbook Pro which is awesome but like every other time I’ve switched computers there’s some serious pain. This time around various changes from…
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Getting this: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed
Setting up a new Mac is always a joy. You forget how many configuration errors you solved long ago. Here’s one I just ran into. I started getting this error when doing OAuth with…
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Script Your Development Environment Setup on Your New Mac
Just in time for Christmas. Every developer who’s been good this year is hoping for a new MacBook under the tree. (Actually your better off waiting since Apple is likely to…
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Loving Goliath. Watch Out for Stones
We’ve been looking at proxy solutions to help us deliver OER Glue courses to learners without the requirement of installing an extension. There are an insane number of proxy…
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ruby 1.9.2, rvm and a Nasty Error When Installing RubyGems: couldn’t parse YAML at line 2 column 10 (Psych::SyntaxError)
It’s ‘funny’ how seemingly simple things take you down nasty paths. I was hoping to spend a few minutes playing with Goliath. That led me to installing ruby 1.9.2 using rvm which…
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Brew Install MySQL Issue
I ran into a problem while trying to install mysql using homebrew: Basically, the script couldn’t find the mysql source code. Luckily homebrew uses ruby. So fixing the problem was…
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Babelphish is a Little Less Rotten
I’ve let Babelphish sit for a while. It did what it was supposed so why change it? Then Michael Jenik offered some changes that made it compatible with the latest Google Translate…
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Textmate RSpec Bundle Error
After installing the Textmate RSpec bundle I started getting this error: /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/builder.rb:86:in…
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Fireeagle and PortableContacts Don’t Get Along. That Makes Daddy Mad.
I have some code that looks like this:
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Don’t Upgrade to Rails 2.3.8 Unless You Really Mean It
I just got a new laptop which means re-installing everything. This included Rails and I ended up with 2.3.8. Most of my projects use 2.3.5. I figured no big deal since various…
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Mountain West Ruby Conference
I spent last week at the Mountain West Ruby Conference which is by far the best conference I’ve ever attended due to the brilliant minds that gather from all over the country…
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River – Amazon Wishlist Gem
One more post on Amazon Wishlist code. As another follow up to my post on Amazon Wishlist RSS, Ruby and Signing/Authenticating your Requests and the site I built to run the code…
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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…
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newgem
I’ve been using newgem to build Babelphish (translation helper thing). The docs from the ruby forge site are a bit out of date. If you use newgem to build anything be sure to look…
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Mountain West Ruby Conference
I’ve been to a good number of conferences over the years. A lot of them cost a lot of money. If you are a geek and a ruby lover (who isn’t?) then the best event you’ll ever attend…
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Ruby Grand Masters
I spent two years in Japan. While there I met all kinds of interesting people. I remember one individual in particular because he was a chess grand master). He was also very good…
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More Ruby Conference
We missed the first talk this morning (sorry Devlin we suck). I slept till 9:30, but mainly because we were up till 4am. Dave South gave me some great info on using TestSpec…
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Using Amazon’s Web Services from Ruby – Jonathan Younger
Right Scale has a great gem: gem install right\_aws RightScale RightAws::Sqs RightScale RightAws::Ec2 They will automatically retry errors for you. gem install kato Kato – EC2…
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Ruby fs-api
I am in the Ruby-fs API presentation now. Funding for the library came from USFamilyTree.com. It is REST based. Data model is: Person Person has many Assertions Assertion has one…
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Review of Ozmozr code at Ruby Mountain West Conference
Jamis Buck blogged about the code review of Ozmozr he and Marcel did at the Mountain West Ruby Conference. The presentation was our favorite because of the insight it gave into…