February 17, 2011
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Over Christmas and last month, I decided to resurrect www.tcias.co.uk. Initially it was just a static html site, but I decided to re-build it using Ruby and Rails. While it's very much like using a sledgehammer to tap in a … Continue reading
December 28, 2010
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PLAIN TEXT CODE: Installing nokogiri (1.4.3.1) with native extensions /Users/username/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/installer.rb:483:in `rescue in block in build_extensions': ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError) Installing the nokogiri gem was throwing the above exception, but the clue to the problem lay at … Continue reading
November 10, 2010
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Yesterday I decided to move Stubbie away from RIAforge. It has nothing to do with RIAForge, I just decided to use Git and as a result move it to Github. Since Github basically provides all the tools, there was no … Continue reading
September 21, 2010
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Because I have to keep running this script and thus look it up, keeping it here for handy and quick reference PLAIN TEXT CODE: select count(id) from database.dbo.tablename group by id having count(id)> 1
August 29, 2010
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Variable names Local variables, method paramaters and method names: start with a lower case letter and don't follow the camel case convention instead, eg. my_var, my_method_name(withMyParameter). Also method names can end in ?,! and = Global variables start with a … Continue reading
August 28, 2010
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At a higher level you can call: PLAIN TEXT CODE: ruby script/performance/benchmarker 'User.encrypted_password("secret", "salt")' Which returns a high level execution plan. PLAIN TEXT CODE: user system total real #1 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 … Continue reading
August 17, 2010
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Using ruby 1.2.6 and rails 2.x, if sessions are stored in the database and you want to clear/reload session objects, open up a terminal window, navigate to your rails application folder and simply type: PLAIN TEXT CODE: rake db:sessions:clear
June 23, 2010
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...between updates. But based of a short conversation with Jon Farrar, I got round to adding mxunit support. I also tidied up a few things in the code for rendering the CFCs and fixed an issue with the VarScopeChecker not … Continue reading
June 12, 2010
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I recently had to re-build my VPS and with the help of the documents over Linode's Library I was up and running again within a couple of hours. A great concise, informative and accurate resource for configuring Linux based servers. … Continue reading
April 20, 2010
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Debian specific, but if you need to edit jvm configuration details for Jetty, look for this file: PLAIN TEXT CODE: /etc/default/jetty And locate the lines below to start fine tuning Jetty's memory usage: PLAIN TEXT CODE: # Extra options to … Continue reading