A Fresh Cup

Double Shot #40

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Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (5 for 2)

I’ve now reached the point where I’m finding it easier to find stuff for this blog than for my .NET link blog. Which is good for me but not so hot for the bottom line, since I sell ads over there. But onwards!

Capistrano: Getting Started – Guide to using the new Capistrano 2.0 bits.
Rails realities part 24 – Some advice and pointers to more MySQL tuning info. I hope I don’t need this and rather think I will eventually.
FileColumn – easy handling of file uploads in Rails – Oh man, this was just what I needed to integrate some images via RMagick into the application I’m working on. Saved my bacon.

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Double Shot #36

Posted by Mike

Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (5 for 2)

I’ve actually spent a couple of days doing paid work on a Rails application. I feel all accomplished and stuff. Of course two thirds of the time has been off the clock as I scurry around researching things, but it’s a start.

Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ’/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ – I hit this moving an Edge Rails based application from development on a Mac to production on a Ubuntu box. The answer proved to be going into database.yml and fixing the production path to mysqld.sock, which Ubuntu seems to put in a different place for some obscure reason.
Missing ActionController::Base::DEPRECATED_INSTANCE_VARIABLES – Another minor bobble I ran into moving from development to production in the same situation. The fix was to install libopenssl-ruby1.8. Not that I have the faintest idea why.
How To Use Multiple Submit Buttons on a Form with Rails – I needed to know this. Fortunately, it’s simple.
SQL DSL – A library for creating SQL statements from Ruby code. Not quite what I need at the moment, but worth bookmarking for the future.
Sample Rails App Branch: With SSL – Reference code for adding SSL to a Rails app.
ActsAsPartitionable – Another approach to bringing enterprise-level database partitioning to Rails.

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Double Shot #33

Posted by Mike

Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (5 for 2)

Yeah, I’ve been MIA for a few days. Life has been pretty hectic. Here are a few liks to make up for that.

MySQL Interface to Amazon S3 – Bleeding edge but intriguing. (via dzone)
The Caboose Sample Rails Application v3 – A template application to get you started with some better practices.
Psst – Beta testers wanted for the next version of CSSEdit.
PHP.net style documentation for Rails – Rails API docs with examples, though there are still plenty of APIs that need examples. (via dzone)
MOle Plugin – Inspect The Rail – Real time event monitoring for Rails apps. (via Ruby Inside)

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It's Always Something

Posted by Mike

Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (5 for 2)

This morning I had to hunt down Copying a MySQL Database From One Machine to Another in the course of moving a Rails app from a development server to a production server, as I didn’t feel like re-entering a bunch of data (and I hadn’t used data migrations to put the data in the database in the first place).

This just goes to remind me of two things about this career transition:

There are a zillion things that I know how to do in the Microsoft universe (like copying databases from one server to another) that I need to relearn as I move sideways to a world of other software. This is a cost above and beyond whatever I spend on new hardware and software and directly learning my new core competency.
Fortunately, it’s all out on the net somewhere, and I’m darned good at hunting things down quickly.