http://vinsol.com Ruby Rails Services Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:52:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Announcing the release of this tiny useful plugin AutoTags. A couple of weeks ago I travelled to Mumbai in train which was a long 17hrs journey… and I utilized that by coding down the idea while travelling. So here it comes… AutoTags, an open source project, is a plugin for RubyOnRails applications ... http://vinsol.com/2008/04/30/rubyonrails-plugin-auto-tags/ The ruby is getting changed and improved a lot with every release. No doubt the existing demerits of rails are soon going to be history. Currently for my rails applications I am running Ruby1.8… and exploring 1.9 to get ready as we are heading with nice speed in the rails developments. ... http://vinsol.com/2008/04/26/new-in-ruby-19-threads/ Ok, so we had been shouting ourselves hoarse, claiming that Rails is all about developer productivity and joy. So is that all about it?, huh!, was the normal reaction. But isn’t that a big enough reason. Not for many people though. Yes, we accept that there are some pain points, like ... http://vinsol.com/2008/04/26/ride-the-rails-still-skeptical/ I have been using Git from last few days, and faced following errors while committing: 1) Trailing whitespace 2) Indent SP followed by a TAB 3) Unresolved merge conflict The first error “Trailing whitespace” is because of carriage-return/line-feed(windows style line feed/end). To resolve this problem comment following lines(58-60) in .git/hooks/pre-commit file: if (/\s$/) ... http://vinsol.com/2008/04/23/git-error-trailing-whitespace-indent-sp-followed-by-a-tab-unresolved-merge-conflict/ I have been using “Annotate Models” rails plugin written by Dave Thomas since I found it around one and half year ago. It really helps while writing fixtures. But if you use RSpec you might miss schema info at the top of your rspec fixture file as I do. So, ... http://vinsol.com/2008/04/23/rails-plugin-annotate-models-for-spec-and-spec-fixtures/ I was reading something about how to avoid the distractions and the article exemplified it using a scene from the Indian mythology ‘Mahabharata’ where the Guru Dronacharya asked all the students to aim at the bird’s eye sitting at a branch of the tree, then he asked what you can ... http://vinsol.com/2008/04/21/avoiding-the-distractions/ There are a couple of ways described in acts_as_solr documentation for the logical search, with AND or OR operations. But I needed to dig a bit into the code as the documentation is not complete and doesn’t suggest all the possible implementations of making the complex Logic Gates for searching. Here ... http://vinsol.com/2008/04/15/acts-as-solr-logical-search/ For Rails applications I am using THIN on my local machine since a couple of weeks and found it better than Mongrel. I’ve started replacing mongrel with THIN on servers as well. THIN leverages the best of the available resources… It uses mongrel’s parser along with the Eventmachine and the ... http://vinsol.com/2008/04/15/mongrel-to-thin/ Today’s market is the market of the Design but the technology. Not only related to the web applications but in a very generic sense. The greatly designed application basecamp turned Rails into a favorite framework of numerous programmers all over the globe. But the non-tech end users who are using ... http://vinsol.com/2008/03/25/design-o-logics-today%e2%80%99s-market-is-the-market-of-design/ Setting up custom error pages are needed whenever the app goes in maintenance or when the code gets crashed … In Nginx, its fairly simple but once when you know it. Say your app example.com is residing in /var/www/apps/example Nginx configurations say your existing configuration looks like… server{ ... http://vinsol.com/2008/03/23/nginx-set-up-error-pages/