More as a reminder to myself for when I need this again, but I’m sure everyone needs this at least once.
Having screwed up my kernel configs for my VirtualBox Gentoo image, I needed a serial console to catch the boot messages scrolling past in order...
I was busy merging work back and forth between topic branches today and by accident miss-merged a 700-line spec. Everything else was fine (or so I hope) except this one file. I couldn’t use git revert, since that would mean I’ll have to redo all the...
I hit a barrier last night where my virtual machine I use for Rails development ran out of space. I quickly checked around and saw my current Rails project had 800MB in log files (thanks autospec).
So I decided to quickly cook up this little bash...
Just a quickie to tell you about my (first) latest gist: http://gist.github.com/19021
Basically search through the postfix maillog for a pattern, extract the postfix message id from each matched line, and then search through the log file for each...
It came down on me like a ton of bricks when I deployed the audit updates to our production PowerDNS on Rails setup, hoptoad isn’t installed and any errors would just be gone and forgotten.
The solution is pretty simple, if you use git. This quicky...
Just as a quick update on the PowerDNS on Rails project, I’ve just pushed several updates to Github that most profoundly includes support for audits. Other smaller changes are also included, including plugin updates (HAML) and upgrading Rails to 2...
Jeff has a great article on the Ruby Olympics, and I couldn’t help to add my 2c to the discussion, so here goes:
Consume Podcasts
I’m an avid listener of (and got mentioned on) the Rails Envy Podcast. I also follow the Ruby on Rails podcast, the...
Today I finally had to “extract” a project from one of our biggest repos as part of a git migration plan. I’ve converted most of the other smaller projects in the same repo over using just their trunk, and it has worked without any noticeable issues...
Thanks to Carlos Brando and the team of translators for delivering the “Ruby on Rails 2.1 – What’s new?” ebook for FREE download.
Apart from my Rubyforge email alert, this seems to have pretty much go unnoticed so far. Think everyone was too busy attending RailsConf 2008.
Enjoy!
