A case study on Amphora’s use of Clean Questions and Metaphor, working with Caitlin Walker of Training Attention. Clean Language in Software from Simon Coles
couldn’t find file ‘jquery-ui’ with Rails 3.2
On a new Rails app, we tried to install both ActiveScaffold and ActiveAdmin. In both cases we got: couldn’t find file ‘jquery-ui When trying to access the ActiveScaffold or ActiveAdmin pages. Turns out the later versions of JQuery remove some things which are still required in Rails 3.2. So locking the version in the Gemfile does the trick e.g. change the …
Path issues when using Capistrano
I recently started using Capistrano on a personal project, which is hosted on a relatively plain Ubuntu box. Capistrano wouldn’t do much, I kept getting errors about “bundle” not being found. Seems the newer versions of Rails and Capistrano prefix everything with “bundle” so the right Gems etc. are used. Turns out there’s a problem with the path that my …
Tomcat 6 – stack level too deep error on Windows
Trouble with Tomcat and JRuby when running on a 64bit Windows Server leads our intrepid explorer to message boards. It seems like gembundler but it isn’t. Rest assured, there’s a happy ending.
Work around Rails 3 unit test transaction difficulties
Having problems with Rails 3 unit tests in and PostgreSQL? Those pesky transactions may be causing them. Here is one man’s tale of woe. (with a touch of ‘hope’)
A Ruby pre-defined variable and you. (and JRuby)
Trying to troubleshoot a potential jar loading problem in JRuby? $” is your friend. (and so is IRC it seems!)
Postgres (pg gem) compilation problems on OpenSolaris
Where our intrepid explorer finds that the newest pg gem is not always the best. A sound bit of logic, that.
Apple iPad print server in Pure Java
Apple have just released iOS 4.2 which includes the ability to print. As part of PatentSafe we have a IPP print server written in Java which can accept print jobs from the iPad and other iOS devices. We also have some Java code which advertises the printer to iOS devices either locally or via wide-area Bonjour. The net result of …
Pound 2.5 and the Include directive
We’re very happy with Pound as a front-end Proxy to our hosted PatentSafe servers. In the version 2.5 release notes there is mention of an Include directive which is clearly of interest because our configuration file is getting rather large! Turns out there isn’t much documentation around so here’s what we understand having read the source… In our main pound.cfg …
Overview of deploying Rails applications on GlassFish v3
Disclaimer: Eventhough we aren’t deploying the Custodian Console under GlassFish, we spent some time playing and this overview may help some lost soul out there. (And some of the knowledge was transferrable to our current deployment method.) GlassFish GlassFish v3 is a reference implementation of Java EE 6. Quite a mouthful. For Rails developers: it uses some of the latest …
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