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 …
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’)
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.
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 …