Tag Archives: Ruby On Rails

rDigg – Ruby on Rails Digg API plugin

By John | Published: August 14, 2008
I’ve sort of finished up rDigg today. It’s to the point I’m comfortable letting other people start to play with it anyways. As you’d expect, rDigg is a Digg API wrapper in the form of a Ruby on Rails plugin. It still needs some work, but works pretty well. For example: #create new Rdigg object digg [...]
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rentalrundown.com and Seattle trip

By John | Published: June 9, 2008
Two things… First - Jen and I are taking a trip to Seattle for 7 days starting this Saturday.  We’re super pumped.   Second – Over Christmas last year I started on this lil Rails app I was calling duluthrentalreview.com.  Pretty obvious what it was.  I get so pissed at landlords in this town, and even more pissed at [...]
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Super Simple Ruby Web Scraper

By John | Published: May 19, 2008
Alrighty folks. Quick walk though for scraping remote web data with Ruby. This is how I did it for my little web scraper I wrote on Saturday.. DISCLAIMER: Web Scraping is kind of a gray area.. don’t steal things that are copywritten and don’t be a jerk. Give credit where credit is due.. First [...]
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Slicehost problems with Gem *FIXED*

By John | Published: March 17, 2008
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 [...]
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How to: Nginx, FCGI, PHP, MySQL, Ruby On Rails, Rewrite

By John | Published: February 12, 2008
In a previous post I talked about how I just set up my new Slicehost account using Nginx to power this blog (Wordpress – PHP) and some Rails Apps. Here’s a mini how to on how I got the whole thing working, as its not quite as easy as it sounds. First though – Why [...]
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Debugging Backgroundrb

By John | Published: February 11, 2008
Backgroundrb is a great tool for getting cron like functionality in your Rails app, but it can be a pain if its not working correctly. I’m not going to go into how to get backgroundrb working, its rubyforge page has decent instructions for that, but what I will share are some tips on debugging [...]
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Moved Hosts

By John | Published: February 1, 2008
Well I’ve finished consolodating my two hosting accounts, one at Godaddy (cheap Linux hosting) and my shared Rails hosting at OcsSolutions (which was very good for shared Rails host) to a 512 mb Ubuntu 7.10 ’slice’ at Slicehost.  Was gonna go straight Debian, but figured what the hell.  For any of you who don’t know, [...]
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Rails: Using Helpers in Your Controller.

By John | Published: January 10, 2008
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, [...]
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