Blog Archive » July 2008

RailsDB 0.3 Released

July 22, 2008

I just released a new 0.3 revision of RailsDB . You can download it here . Lots of stuff has been added and improved with the biggest additions being done by Jacek Panachida. He has added support for exporting data in several different formats including CSV, tab-delimited, and YAML. He also wrote a bunch of tests and got Mocha integrated. Some things I worked on in...

The Planet.. worst customer service.

July 15, 2008

Back in early May the co-lo server I have at The Planet experienced multiple outages over a several day period. I filed tickets with them every time an outage occured. After a few days had passed and everything cleared up, I filed a new ticket asking for some billing consideration for all the outages the previous week. After filing the ticket I was told by the support person who...

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Moving a Rails app from 1.2.6 -> 2.0.2

July 5, 2008

Recently I was tasked with upgrading a working Rails 1.2.6 application to version 2.0.2. Here are the majority of issues I found and their fixes/workarounds: Old reverse_proxy_plugin = broken functional tests: The units tests were fine, but all the functional tests were broken. Something like this: post :list, { :site_id => site.id }, { :user_id => user.id ...

Broken mirrors and fingernails

July 2, 2008

Today on the way home I was ran off the road by a blue BMW driven by a young guy with brown hair. He came flying around the corner on my side of the road and would have hit me had I not swerved over in time. Swerving over caused me to side-swipe a large plastic trash can sitting out very close to the road. The impact with the trash can snapped my passenger side mirror right off....