John Yerhot

Today I set up 470.johnyerhot.com and set up a Rails app I worked on to run there, but I needed to install the Pdf-writer Gem for proper functionality. Low and behold when I tried
sudo gem install pdf-writer
I was greeted with nothing, just
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
and that was it. After searching and […]

I’ve spend all morning trying to get this to work.  I am using nice menus and the frontpage modules in Drupal for a project at work and I could not for the life of me get the nice menu to work on the newly created frontpage I set up using “full” type of front page.
After […]

Heres the week in review:
-Linux Mint home networking is now done and working beautifully. Had some trouble getting the onboard Via Chrome9 Video working correctly, but I followed the instructions here(compiling it from source) and everything was great. I wanted to use the OpenChrome driver instead of the VESA driver because the OpenChrome […]

Yeah, I came up with this little Rails rake task called ‘rake leaves’. It will just create a text file that has all your tables, column names, and their data types. I’ve always thought it would be handy to have this so you don’t need to switch to MySQL and spend the time […]

This morning there was a guy in the rails IRC room asking about using helpers in his controller and I recently wrote an app that used the great pdf-writer gem to generate some pdfs and used helpers in the controller for formatting in the pdf. If you are going to generate very complicated pdfs, […]

In my first real post in a year, I thought I’d share some Ruby stuff I’ve recently done - Integrating your Rails 2.0 app with Google Maps.
So, here is what we are aiming to accomplish: You are going to provide an address, say 123 Foobar St, Anywhere, MN 55812. We are going to […]