http://www.johnyerhot.com Ruby On Rails Developer Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:30:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In my last entry we looked at using scopes to dynamically build scopes for searching in your Ruby on Rails application.  In Tryst, we needed to let our uses search for other singles that were xxx miles from their location.  We require that new users enter their zip code, so ... http://www.johnyerhot.com/2009/06/23/zipcode-distance-searching-in-ruby-on-rails/ I really like how Lovetastic's search works.  Instead of a plethora of select boxes, users can simply use expressions to create searches.  We did something similar with Tryst's searching.  One text field and you enter stuff like age ranges (30-45), things like smoke-yes or smoke-no, cities, zipcodes, etc. To make this ... http://www.johnyerhot.com/2009/06/21/smart-searching-using-named-scopes/ Ok, so five years ago I never would have though that I'd have started a 'Web 2.0' dating site.  Hell, I didn't think I'd be doing a lot of things, but here I am.   There is actually a small story how I got involved with (shamless self promotion) trystme.com.  Wanna ... http://www.johnyerhot.com/2009/06/14/yes-i-started-a-dating-site-im-sorry/ That's right.  I'm pulling this blog from retirement.  It's still getting quite a bit of traffic and I feel bad for just neglecting it.  Keep checking back for some real content. http://www.johnyerhot.com/2009/05/22/ive-pulled-a-brett-farve/ I will be moving this weblog to blog.john.yerhot.org in the next couple days.  I will also be moving from Wordpress to my own home brew platform.  johnyerhot.com will still go here, and so will all the posts, but I will not be posting here any longer. blog.john.yerhot.org http://www.johnyerhot.com/2008/11/19/blogjohnyerhotorg/ Against the advice of, well, the entire Rails community, I attempted to deploy a project to Godaddy. Godaddy proudly displays the little Ruby logo next to Php when browsing through their hosting plans, and seeing as you can get Rails hosting for $7/month through them, it seems like a decent deal, ... http://www.johnyerhot.com/2008/11/04/deployment-nightmare-godaddy/ My big project for the weekend has been moving my humble lil web hosting setup to a separated out, virtualized environment.  We're doing this at work and have been very happy with the results. My original plan was to use KVM for the virtualization, so I could take advantage of paravirtualization.  ... http://www.johnyerhot.com/2008/09/27/kvm-vmware-and-my-whole-saturday/ Just for those of you in N. Minnesota that love Henry Rollins as much as I, he's gonna be at Sacred Heart Studio/Music Hall on October 23rd.  No word on how/where/when to get tickets... Directions to Sacred Heart and their phone number = (218) 723-189. http://www.johnyerhot.com/2008/09/18/henry-rollins-at-sacred-heart/ HERE IT IS. Google's rumored browser is actually real and you can download it. Runs webkit (good thing), seems very fast, and looks like cotton candy. No OSX or Linux version yet. Eh. http://www.johnyerhot.com/2008/09/02/obligatory-google-chrome-post/ I merged some stock quoting stuff I had into a Rails plugin today. If you'd like to be able to simply grab real time stock quotes in your Rails app, this will do the job. Pretty much any stock symbol will work and you can enter as many ... http://www.johnyerhot.com/2008/08/29/rquote-ruby-on-rails-stock-quote-plugin/