Posted by Chris Anderton on April 2nd, 2009 @ 09:52 – 0 comments
Updated on April 2nd, 2009 @ 09:53
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The first thing most people do when starting a new Rails project is to use the rails generator to create the basic application structure.
By default you’ll be using the most recent version of Rails that’s installed on your system, for example:
rails -v
=> Rails 2.3.2
A few weeks back we were training a bunch of eager new Rails developers and one of them asked if they could specify the version of Rails to use if they had multiple versions installed.
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Posted by Chris Anderton on August 11th, 2008 @ 13:37 – 0 comments
Updated on August 11th, 2008 @ 13:41
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One of the projects we’re working on needs to be able to publish images to Flickr. Rather than re-invent the wheel a quick search on RubyForge and GitHub turned up a number existing Flickr libraries for Ruby. After considering future requirements, we decided to go with flickr_fu.
There was just one teeny tiny problem: uploads to Flickr within flickr_fu were broken, as we discovered when we looked at the comments in the Flickr::Uploader class:
# NOT WORKING ... FILE UPLOADS IN NET::HTTP IS TEH SUCK
A fork, a clone and a few tweaks later and we’ve got uploads working. The changes are currently in our fork but I’ll also be submitting them upstream after a little more testing.
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Posted by Rob Anderton on August 6th, 2008 @ 16:36 – 0 comments
Updated on August 6th, 2008 @ 16:37
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There are currently a couple of web-based surveys being carried out that you may want to take a look at. First up is the survey for people who make websites 2008 aimed at anyone involved in web development from designers to Ruby coders from the guys at A List Apart.
Nearly 33,000 people took part in 2007 and it will be interesting to see what has changed and what has remained the same in terms of salary, experience, education and working conditions over the last year.
The second comes from HAML creator Hampton Catlin in the form of the more Ruby-centric Hampton’s Ruby Survey 2008. At the time of writing over 900 people have responded, so if you haven’t already, now’s the time to get your entry in.
The survey covers Ruby and Javascript frameworks, testing, interpreters and in a bizarre twist ends with religious beliefs. It will certainly be interesting to discover if the Ruby community is big on new-age spirituality or is just a godless bunch of coders!
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Posted by Chris Anderton on February 12th, 2008 @ 11:10 – 6 comments
Updated on June 10th, 2008 @ 12:14
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I'll try and get all my puns out of the way up front.. In the past, we've used monit to monitor our applications and servers - while we've been aware of God for some time - then it was a case of better the devil we knew as we didn't allocate any time to converting to God.
Now, my new found religion hasn't been born of any material failings with monit, more a case of getting round to seeing what God is all about.
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