[CommunityEngine] Re: message center for CE

2008-10-14 Thread Carl Fyffe
Please search the mailing list. This has been discussed a couple of times already. On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Mera MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I want my CE installation to have a message center to enable members to send personal email messages to each other. Basically I am

[CommunityEngine] Re: message center for CE

2008-10-14 Thread Carl Fyffe
messages. On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Carl Fyffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please search the mailing list. This has been discussed a couple of times already. On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Mera MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I want my CE installation to have a message center

[CommunityEngine] Re: message center for CE

2008-10-15 Thread Carl Fyffe
Sam, There are two ways to submit back to Bruno. Use Github and send a pull request OR send a diff of the work you have done. Carl On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:50 AM, samotage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fantastic Bruno! I was just about to roll my sleeves up and build one for CE. BTW, I'm

[CommunityEngine] Git CommunityEngine_Setup

2008-11-05 Thread Carl Fyffe
Checking out CommunityEngine_Setup and see that it creates a git repository for you. We still need a github or some other primary git repository for our apps right? Or is this good enough to host our source and app on ec2? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

[CommunityEngine] Re: Git CommunityEngine_Setup

2008-11-06 Thread Carl Fyffe
server), but that's up to you. On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Carl Fyffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Checking out CommunityEngine_Setup and see that it creates a git repository for you. We still need a github or some other primary git repository for our apps right? Or is this good enough to host

[CommunityEngine] Re: Could not locate the following plugins: engines, community_engine, and white_list

2008-11-11 Thread Carl Fyffe
It seems that the plugins are not being saved to your repository in a way that allows them to be retrieved. How are you installing your plugins? On 11/11/08, Christopher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Creating a vanilla CE project according to the documentation provided runs fine on my local

[CommunityEngine] Re: Routing Error when adding new controller

2009-01-10 Thread Carl Fyffe
It isn't clear, but it looks like he was going to the wrong url. As far as I know restarts are not required in development mode. If you are in production mode the functionality changes. The dynamic reload is turned off because the ability to dynamically reload slows things down a bit. On

[CommunityEngine] Re: How to speed up CE?

2009-01-10 Thread Carl Fyffe
In general it isn't CE that is causing the slowdown. Here are some tips though: Use Yahoo's Y-Slow to get some tips on how to make your site faster. What are the 50 images for? User's pictures or are they part of a theme you have built for the site? How big are the images? If you are loading

[CommunityEngine] Re: Comment URL

2009-01-14 Thread Carl Fyffe
Change the APP_URL to match your domain. Pick whichever one you prefer. On 1/14/09, LostyJai simonlian...@gmail.com wrote: My app is hosted on a server, access by www.company.com and www.company.com.au. The direct urls generated for blogs/forum posts/photos are www.company.com/forum or

[CommunityEngine] Re: CE tests with Postgresql

2009-01-18 Thread Carl Fyffe
You are right, no one has used CE in Postgres. The docs even say as much. This list of changes is great, but if you sent a pull request with passing tests that would be even better. Awesome work. On 1/18/09, jak4 johannes.kae...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm a little bit confused. Did no one ever

[CommunityEngine] FAQ Update

2009-01-31 Thread Carl Fyffe
Bruno, Could you update the FAQ with the following: How do I create an administrator account? Administrator privileges are assigned through the database. First, create a user (sign up for an account), then you have to alter that user's database record so that they belong to the admin role. In

[CommunityEngine] Re: Changing Database Entries (states etc.)

2009-02-18 Thread Carl Fyffe
You need to go buy a book buddy. Running migrations are core to building Rails applications. Explaining that is way beyond the scope of this mailing list. Get the latest Agile Web Development with Rails or read a couple of the guides from the Rails site. But I suggest buying the book. On

[CommunityEngine] Re: Super Noob Question: unable to sign in

2009-02-21 Thread Carl Fyffe
, that is the best way to learn how everything works. On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 9:23 PM, jrgoodner jrgood...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Carl--which aspect of the User Table to do I need to change? And to what? On Feb 21, 6:01 pm, Carl Fyffe carl.fy...@gmail.com wrote: Using the console find the user

[CommunityEngine] Re: Scalability

2009-02-23 Thread Carl Fyffe
Your best bet is to use EC2 to benchmark your solution. You can load up your app on a couple of servers and use apache bench to determine how many requests can be handled. It will only cost you a couple of bucks and you can go back to the client with real numbers and say, we are going to need x

[CommunityEngine] Re: contributing to ce + messaging

2009-03-16 Thread Carl Fyffe
Mustafa, Welcome to our little community. The development methodology is a typical open source project. Make some changes, submit your changes to the committers and repeat. The git repository is the central host where merges occur. I would suggest starting out on GitHub's guides:

[CommunityEngine] Re: Facebook Connect plugin for CE

2009-03-19 Thread Carl Fyffe
This is pretty huge. I definitely would be interested in having this functionality, and would be willing to pay for it. I think that this definitely makes CE more attractive to younger users who are all on Facebook already. On 3/19/09, Bruno Bornsztein bruno.bornszt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all,

[CommunityEngine] Re: Heroku

2009-05-01 Thread Carl Fyffe
Dondi, I am trying to deploy to Heroku as well, but can't get past an issue with rmagick. Did you bump into that at all? Carl On 4/30/09, Dondi donovan.dil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a CE-based app on my local machine. I am trying to deploy it to Heroku. I have moved the project to

[CommunityEngine] Re: Can't install with the template

2009-05-01 Thread Carl Fyffe
Robert, I am getting this error when I try to install to Heroku, but it works fine locally on my Mac. Interesting new data. Could you try changing the environment to require RMagick instead of rmagick and see if that works? In environment.rb there is a config.gem 'rmagick' change that to be

[CommunityEngine] Re: Can't install with the template

2009-05-01 Thread Carl Fyffe
= 'RMagick' And then it works (at least for me)! /Robert On May 1, 5:06 pm, Carl Fyffe carl.fy...@gmail.com wrote: Robert, I am getting this error when I try to install to Heroku, but it works fine locally on my Mac. Interesting new data. Could you try changing the environment to require RMagick

[CommunityEngine] RailsConf

2009-05-03 Thread Carl Fyffe
Who's going? I will be arriving tomorrow. Anyone want to get together for drinks one night? Carl --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups CommunityEngine group. To post to this group, send email to

[CommunityEngine] Rails Asset Extensions

2009-05-07 Thread Carl Fyffe
Does CE still need to build the plugin_assets directory dynamically? Are things added to it dynamically? If either of the above are yes can you point me to what uses it besides the stuff that is already there statically? Thanks! Carl --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[CommunityEngine] Re: Rails Asset Extensions

2009-05-09 Thread Carl Fyffe
directory) and then commit the files. On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Carl Fyffe carl.fy...@gmail.com wrote: Does this have to be done at runtime? Or is there a way that it can be done before deployment? On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Bruno Bornsztein bruno.bornszt...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah

[CommunityEngine] Re: Error: Login slug has already been taken (WHY?)

2009-05-18 Thread Carl Fyffe
The error you are getting means that someone has already created a user account that generates the same slug as the one you are trying to create. Just change your username and you should be good to go. On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 6:27 PM, jrgoodner jrgood...@gmail.com wrote: I have been messing

[CommunityEngine] Re: base install fails on page load, showing NameError in Base#site_index

2009-05-18 Thread Carl Fyffe
= #{ content_class }}      =body I'm unsure what this is meant to do, can you share a clue? On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Carl Fyffe carl.fy...@gmail.com wrote: FYI, The template is using edge, so things will get broken. Sorry for the confusion. On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Carl Fyffe

[CommunityEngine] Deploying to Heroku

2009-05-18 Thread Carl Fyffe
I wrote up instructions on how to deploy to Heroku and posted them on the wiki: http://sites.google.com/a/curbly.com/communityengine/deploying-to-heroku Let me know if you have any comments or suggestions for improvement! Carl --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

[CommunityEngine] Re: Deploying to Heroku

2009-05-20 Thread Carl Fyffe
: The howto looks great. Have you considered making another version of the install template to include the Heroku stuff? That way you could go from zero to deployed CE in one automated step..! Awesome! /Robert On May 19, 3:59 am, Carl Fyffe carl.fy...@gmail.com wrote: I wrote up instructions

[CommunityEngine] Re: How does application.html.haml get invoked?

2009-05-23 Thread Carl Fyffe
In views/layouts there is a file called games.html.erb delete that and it should work. Be sure your controller extends the CE base controller, otherwise you will get complaints about unknown methods. On 5/23/09, angrysponge mike.muld...@gmail.com wrote: I have added a new item to the NavBar,

[CommunityEngine] Re: CE and EC2 with Passenger

2009-05-24 Thread Carl Fyffe
I would move to Heroku, check out the docs on the wiki. Heorku uses EC2. On 5/24/09, Andrei Erdoss erd...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am interested to deploy CE using Amazon EC2 with Passenger and Ruby Enterprise Edition. Also I am interested in having an emailing system on this AMI, such as

[CommunityEngine] Re: What is this install template you folks mentioned?

2009-05-29 Thread Carl Fyffe
Templates were recently added to Rails. They allow you to create an application with a default configuration. Bruno created one for CE. If you want to create a new CE project the easiest way to do it is using the template: rails new-ce-project -m

[CommunityEngine] Re: Best Approach for Implementing Groups

2009-06-14 Thread Carl Fyffe
Commit it to your branch on github and then we can pull it from you to check it out. On 6/14/09, Levi Rosol levi.ro...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. Right now it's just on my PC and has little to no tests built in. When bruno gets some time I'm sure we'll get a branch setup. On 6/14/09, mike

[CommunityEngine] Re: Has anyone successfully deployed a CE site to Heroku?

2009-08-04 Thread Carl Fyffe
Would you mind updating the wiki with the tips needed to get CE working on Heroku? I think Heroku is a good way forward and it would be awesome to have this knowledge located in one place. Thanks, Carl On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:44 AM, SimianLogiclearnyoura...@gmail.com wrote: I've got my

[CommunityEngine] Re: Performance concern

2009-10-06 Thread Carl Fyffe
9 second page loads sounds like an environment issue. Or a really bad database query... On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Christopher Becker cbecker...@gmail.com wrote: Pardon my dismissiveness, but SCREW cygwin.   Just set up a virtual debian machine using sun's virtual box and you will see

Re: [CommunityEngine] Re: Photos, S3, and CE?

2009-11-23 Thread Carl Fyffe
James, Audrey states in her first email that the keys have been substituted for fakes. We can remove these emails, but they have already been captured by mail-archive.com and the email accounts of the members of this group (in other words, the cat is out of the bag). Audrey, I would suggest

Re: [CommunityEngine] sessions based off ip?

2009-11-25 Thread Carl Fyffe
Don't make store the information in the session, store it in a cookie. Or make it based on the domain they are accessing the site through m.yoursite.com uses the mobile layout, all others use the desktop layout. over-generalized-statementSessions are bad./over-generalized-statement On Thu, Nov

[CommunityEngine] Favorite tests

2011-02-14 Thread Carl Fyffe
Bruno, You have tests that you like more than others? Github commit message : Fix favorite tests Hehehe I know you were fixing favorites functionality tests, but out of context the message is pretty funny. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [CommunityEngine] what is this project?

2011-09-06 Thread Carl Fyffe
I am not speaking for Bruno or for the project, just my 2 cents. There isn't much involvement from the community because Bruno's work is stellar. However, when ever the community has something to offer Bruno has incorporated it when it made sense. I've been on the list for a while and I have to