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Wednesday 21 September 2011 | 2 comments

Deploying Ruby on Rails 3.1 to WebFaction

WebFaction has a new Rail 3.1 installer out. I nevertheless hit a few obstacles in setting up a new app. Ruby EE vs Ruby 1.9.2 Issues First off, the installer is using the Ruby Enterprise Edition rather than 1.9.2 which I hadn’t planned on, so all of the new hash syntax I was using did not work out. So – you may want to install Ruby 1.9.2 for starte... More

Wednesday 21 September 2011

Open Source College Radio Funding Drive Rails App

Open source college radio funding drive Ruby on Rails app. Includes a funding thermometer javascript widget that can be embedded on other sites to tracks pledges. https://github.com/gordonbisnor/Funding-Drive More

Tuesday 14 June 2011

Ruby on Rails Uploadify 2.3.11 Flash Session Cookie Middleware

A recent update to Rails 2.3.11 broke our Uploadify setup. This is what finally solved the problem for me: config/environment.rb (or for Redmine, this can go in config/additional_environment.rb): config.middleware.insert_before("ActionController::Session::CookieStore", "FlashSessionCookieMiddleware") app/middleware/flash_session_cookie_middleware.rb: https://gist.github.com/1025799.... More

Saturday 09 April 2011

Notes On Migrating from Restful Authentication to Devise

I recently attempted a migration from restful_authentication to Devise. I had a bit of a struggle with making old users able to login. It mentions that pepper and stretches are not used by default. It turns out the application I was converting had both in use. I followed the instructions here first: https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki... More

Thursday 31 March 2011

Redmine Uploadify Documents Plugin

A Redmine Plugin that adds Uploadify to document uploads https://github.com/gordonbisnor/Redmine-Uploadify-Documents More