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How To: Subversion Basics
via PaulStamatiou.com by Paul Stamatiou on February 07, 2008
John Ratcliffe-Lee writes in with a question about how to use Subversion to easily keep tabs on a frequently updated software CMS he wants to use. First off, what is Subversion? It’s a widely used version control system, or in layman’s terms Subversion is a way of keeping separate versions of a code base as it is developed. If a mistake is made, files can be rolled back to a previous version....
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backup_fu Makes Amazon S3 Backups Redonkulous
via YARB - Home by admin on February 07, 2008
Redonkulously easy, that is.Your rails app has been humming along nicely for several months, then suddenly it hits you, wait, are we backing up our database / uploaded files yet?Well, of course you are. But for those who prefer to live on the edge, launching an app without a well-articulated backup strategy, I give you backup_fu.It’s a rails plugin, invoked via rake tasks. After installing...
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RM-Install Updated For Rails 2.0
via FiveRuns Blog - Home by Oliver on February 06, 2008
Together with our Partner Bitrock we have just released an updated version of our Rails stack RM-Install. The major changes are the upgrade to Rails 2.0 and the addition of Mac OS X on PowerPC processors. The updated stack also addresses installation problems on Mac OS X 10.4.11 and Leopard.Looking at the included Ruby components here are the most visible upgrades from the first version of...
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Living on the edge (of Rails) #6 - better performance, Git support, and more
via redemption in a blog by Chu Yeow on February 06, 2008
Here’s another week of noteworthy updates on the Rails trunk. Thanks once again to the Rails Envy podcast for featuring my updates, and even bigger thanks to the Rails contributors and committers who make things happen. This week’s Living on the Edge was covered in Rails Envy podcast #17.The company I work for, Bezurk (yeah we know some of you hate the name “Bezurk” - that’s going to...
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Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #017: 2/6/2008
via Rails Envy by Jason on February 06, 2008
Episode 17. As always, a big thanks to Chu Yeow, for the edge Rails updates and thank you to our sponsor Corpedia. Here is a direct link to his edge rails post. The Rails Envy Podcast is sponsored by Corpedia. Corpedia provides ethics and compliance solutions to major corporations. Corpedia is proud to support the Rails community in Phoenix Arizona and is currently hiring Ruby on Rails...
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Billing on the Brain: Integration
via Dynamite - The Err Free Weblog by PJ Hyett on February 06, 2008
... to a third party site to enter in their credit card info.The first problem is services like Paypal and Amazon FPS require accounts. We already asked them to signup to use FamSpam, why would we ask them to signup for another service just so they could paid to use ours? Adding a Paypal payment option in the future to provide our customers more flexibility is a real possibility, but it was i...
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Timezone awareness in Rails
via techno weenie - Home by rick on February 06, 2008
I just committed another piece of the puzzle to Rails’ new time zone support, coming in Rails 2.0. This takes a different approach than my previous attempt at timezone-aware activerecord attributes. The whole idea behind this approach, is that times appear in the local time zone while you work with them, but are persisted to the database in UTC.>> Time.zone = "Pacific Time (US & Canada)" >>...
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Open Flash Chart Plugin for Ruby on Rails
via pullmonkey.com - Home by charlie on February 05, 2008
... my tooltips:Extra Tool TipsView Source CodeMore examples can be found on my Open Flash Chart Projects page.Don't forget to check out the original - http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/.
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Basecamp Turns Four
via Signal vs. Noise by Jason on February 05, 2008
Today, February 5th, is Basecamp’s Birthday. She turns four today. Four years old. Wow. Time sure flies.Here’s the original blog post from Feb 5, 2004 that started it all. Be sure to browse the comments — they’re especially interesting looking back. Time puts things in perspective.From the vault, here’s the original marketing siteHere’s the original to-do sectionHere’s the original...
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