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Working through “Practical Rails – Social Networking Sites”

CobyR — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:47:00 +0000

Testing the Blogger API implementation, actually testing the ecto tool against my wordpress blog for extra fun.

Ruby Hoedown 2007

CobyR — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:11:58 +0000

Ruby Hoedown was a great regional conference. I’d say more, but you can watch for yourself in the not too distant future. The entire conference was recorded by Confreaks!

The closing keynote was given by Marcel Molina, in which he defined three tenants for determining whether or not code was beautiful.

Dreamhost and Ruby on Rails

CobyR — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:45:32 +0000

After fighting Dreamhost’s dispatch.fcgi issues, I ended up moving one of my production sites to a local hosting company. So far so good. I did come across this post today though, and am trying it on another one of my dreamhost sites.

I’m using Montastic and AlertSite for performance monitoring.

Montastic is great for catching the alerts but no historical reporting, Alertsite provides great historical reporting.

Instant Ruby

CobyR — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:08:29 +0000

Downloaded the latest InstantRails, nice quick setup. Got it up and running in no time, walked through the tutorial at:

Rolling with Ruby on Instant Rails

Then I connected to SQL Server and did the same thing with just a moments worth of work. It was download a new file, put it in the correct directory, change the database.yml file for the app, use DDL to create appropriate database objects, and bang I was up and running against MS SQL instead of MySQL. Next quick step will be to flip it over and run against SQLite. Then it’s time to experiment with a web based app to replace on of my clients current MS Access Apps with a RoR web app.

How to Connect to Microsoft SQL Server