camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-24 Thread david costa
Hello from Switzerland :) I have been playing with camping for the last day. Granted, I have very limited experience with ruby but I did manage to get it work just fine (thanks to the example at https://github.com/camping/camping/wiki/Short-example that is strangely not part of the camping book) I

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-25 Thread david costa
Andersson icepa...@lavabit.com ha scritto: david costa gurugeek...@gmail.com skrev: Hello from Switzerland :) I have been playing with camping for the last day. Granted, I have very limited experience with ruby but I did manage to get it work just fine (thanks to the example at https

Re: +1 shorter domain name

2012-03-26 Thread david costa
Hi :) Is the forum idea still current? I can have this done and give you access to the server/hosting too if you like. you can even make it a subdomain like forum.camping.io Thanks and Regards David +1 shorter domain name*Jenna Fox* a at creativepony.com

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-27 Thread david costa
Hello :) Isak and I are working on some screencasts but of course the more the better :) BTW the blog idea is indeed old but, excuse my ignorance, working as a complete beginning with the example at http://stuff.judofyr.net/camping-docs/book/02_getting_started.html I don't really like that the

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-27 Thread david costa
Hi Dave! It doesn't have to be. You could include setting the path in your screencast: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9086590/where-does-camping-store-my-database Right I found this too but seriously do a normal, new user have to dig till stackoverflow to find this out ? I think that

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-27 Thread david costa
Hi Dave :) On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Dave Everitt dever...@innotts.co.ukwrote: it is, it's just not immediately documented although there are some (a bit out-of-date) posts on MySQL and Camping. The idea is that you can use what you like, but perhaps an example for each case would be

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-28 Thread david costa
Hi Jenna this is great ! let's see how the screencasts come along then you can see. Just one point about tumblr (which is good don't get me wrong) wouldn't it be better to have a small site on camping ? I am pretty excited to build this in camping and show the screencasts inside it. Of course will

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-28 Thread david costa
Why The Lucky Stiff, and itself does run on our close relative, Ruby On Rails. In fact, a large proportion of GitHub is a Rails app too. — Jenna On Thursday, 29 March 2012 at 6:29 AM, david costa wrote: Hi Jenna this is great ! let's see how the screencasts come along then you can see

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-28 Thread david costa
of the setbacks for that project. Judofyr's been working on a tool for assembling a better camping book, but I'm not sure if he's still working on that. — Jenna On Thursday, 29 March 2012 at 10:36 AM, david costa wrote: Hello, I am a bit at a loss :) Really I don't see how we can promote

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-30 Thread david costa
This is good but let's use the same font as the website :) http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Comic-Zine-OT On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Isak Andersson icepa...@lavabit.comwrote: ** I've heard nothing but good myself. The biggest difference is that Slim is a bit more friendly isn't it?

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-30 Thread david costa
For the deployment video I think you should perhaps start with the standard configuration which has thin and nginx but of course if you have time you can do one with Unicorn too. The idea is to make it easy for users to run without having to install too much extra stuff. Best Regards David On

Re: camping paid examples + screencasts ?

2012-03-30 Thread david costa
March 2012 at 11:43 PM, david costa wrote: This is good but let's use the same font as the website :) http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Comic-Zine-OT On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Isak Andersson icepa...@lavabit.comwrote: ** I've heard nothing but good myself. The biggest difference

dead easy deployment / Camping on the fly

2012-03-30 Thread david costa
Hello all, I am opening a separate topic just to brainstorm the idea of a free, simple camping deployment/hosting option. Now this is not about re-inventing the wheel as heroku already supports camping apps too. So this would be the ground idea: a) This would be entirely free - no paid plans to

Re: dead easy deployment / Camping on the fly

2012-03-30 Thread david costa
and perhaps is the best way to do it so it would be way less geeky than heroku and well on one or more mac minis is fairly hedgy ! Cheers David On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 6:30 AM, david costa gurugeek...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Jenna, we could use host.camping.io or anything.camping.io

Re: dead easy deployment / Camping on the fly

2012-03-31 Thread david costa
on that choice I am curious? :) — Jenna On Sunday, 1 April 2012 at 12:27 AM, david costa wrote: Thank you :D as soon as the DNS will propagate it should be live. Some updates: now added the design from camping.io (working on the fonts) and I have narrowed down the probably easiest/best way

Re: dead easy deployment / Camping on the fly

2012-03-31 Thread david costa
. ...just an idea to think about, but better than using reverse proxies. On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 4:29 PM, david costa gurugeek...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Jenna ! I think that run rack applications the most efficient way seems to be phusion passenger that works with apache and nginx. It might work

Re: dead easy deployment / Camping on the fly

2012-03-31 Thread david costa
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Isak Andersson icepa...@lavabit.comwrote: ** Actually setting up a reverse proxy gives better performance for the end user As you can have some sort of buffer between them. The Unicorn server takes care of whatever nginx asks for, and while it waits it can

Re: dead easy deployment / Camping on the fly

2012-04-01 Thread david costa
no don't feel like more debugging ): On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 9:51 AM, david costa gurugeek...@gmail.com wrote: Okay :D after many many hours of testing I am settled for nginx and passenger. live at http://run.camping.io/ I did try every apache combination (with passenger, with cgi, etc. etc

Re: dead easy deployment / Camping on the fly

2012-04-01 Thread david costa
to, just as it proxies to ruby instances. — Jenna On Sunday, 1 April 2012 at 2:11 AM, david costa wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Isak Andersson icepa...@lavabit.comwrote: ** Actually setting up a reverse proxy gives better performance for the end user As you can have some sort

Re: dead easy deployment / Camping on the fly

2012-04-01 Thread david costa
engine? On 1 April 2012 10:03, david costa gurugeek...@gmail.com wrote: Ah I forgot you can compare camping running on thin here http://run.camping.io:3301/ vs passenger at http://run.camping.io apparently db has some problems with fusion passenger (see http://run.camping.io create HTML page

Re: dead easy deployment / Camping on the fly

2012-04-01 Thread david costa
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com wrote: Oh gods not RVM. This setup does not need another layer of complexity. On my own server, I use five thins, which run all the time, on a set of five ports which nginx proxy to. To run hundreds of camping apps, this sort

Re: dead easy deployment / Camping on the fly

2012-04-02 Thread david costa
Yes thanks for this well I am pretty set with nginx + passenger. Once I spent the week end digging into it I am pretty happy and it is the recommended way to deploy by many so I will trust this setup for now. I like this more than moving parts with reverse proxies and since it will end up to me to

lighttpd + fastcgi + camping

2012-04-06 Thread david costa
Hello all, I am running in some little stumbling blocks with passenger as a multi user environment (the most problematic feature is that, once you setup a sub-domain passenger wants you to declare on nginx every app running on that nginx server which is not ideal to add apps on the fly and / or

Re: framework size, forking etc.

2012-04-14 Thread david costa
Hi all :) I have been playing with Sinatra a lot lately and perhaps *some* things are done easily there (URL mapping, static files) but being a DSL and not a framework it is a bit different. For many things camping does the job very well and overall I find it a more comprehensive solution than

Re: http_referrer

2012-04-15 Thread david costa
Ah well the is not on fcgi but passenger :) I would say that most of the serious ruby/rails hosting now offer passenger as an option so shouldn't limit your application portability. On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Dave Everitt dever...@innotts.co.ukwrote: Understood about compatible - this is

Re: http_referrer

2012-04-15 Thread david costa
this week. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com wrote: O_o I think the extra character is worth it. — Jenna On Monday, 16 April 2012 at 9:40 AM, david costa wrote: Ah well the is not on fcgi but passenger :) I would say that most of the serious ruby/rails

Re: http_referrer

2012-04-16 Thread david costa
Well the point of the original camping was *not* to be easy to read nor to have camping used in the next big commercial project. The annotated version gives you pretty much all you want if you want to read it :) On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.comwrote: W

Re: framework size, forking etc.

2012-04-16 Thread david costa
For now I'm feeling like a pretty bad maintainer. I'm not using Camping enough to see where things need to be fixed, I'm crappy at actually shipping stuff, and I'm not sure if I believe that Camping is a correct starting point for a new framework Hey Magnus! I think that you are a great

Re: framework size, forking etc.

2012-04-17 Thread david costa
want to stay up to date with things like Mab and all that. There are small differences. But I guess I could omit the use of anything that differs. But still, we want the information to be fresh, no? Cheers! Isak Andersson david costa gurugeek...@gmail.com skrev: Isak, may be you should use

whitespace rendering

2012-04-17 Thread david costa
Hello ! perhaps this might be a n00b markaby question but...we are finding some issues to display records with a simple space inside a view (both with sqlite, mysql or kirbybase so it is not db related). E.g. to have a formatted (with a simple space between the records so nothing fancy like Stock

Re:whitespace rendering

2012-04-17 Thread david costa
oh well I found my own answer this is intentional in maraby so best way to do a table like below - sorry for asking and answering my own question :) table do tr do td 'Stock Name' td 'Ticker' td 'Number of Stocks' td 'Price' td 'Date'

Re: Camping + Couch DB

2012-04-26 Thread david costa
Hello Jenna, I like chill too ! Is it possible to have a simple example with db connection (I see you have this on ChillDB::Database but just wanted to get something simple to cover the username/password and/or remote couch server with a different URL than localhost) and again a very simple usage

Re: Camping + Couch DB

2012-04-26 Thread david costa
has a Couch library that she used in Camping that doesn't have much bloat and is more Ruby-ish. On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:36 AM, david costa gurugeek...@gmail.comwrote: Hi ! First a short update on the camping on the fly hosting. Everything is done and tested on the backend. We are just

Re: Camping + Couch DB

2012-04-26 Thread david costa
HI Nokan :) On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Nokan Emiro uzleep...@gmail.com If I'll use the hosting service, I'll want to be able to use mysql and not sqlite, and other experimental solutions. You can say that this is silly of me, but, as an end user, I have the right to be silly. BTW I

Re: The Website

2012-04-29 Thread david costa
Thank you for the kind words that are much appreciated. Thank you also for adding a lot of stuff to Chill which could be another very interesting add-on to camping and in general interested to anyone looking to try/build a project with couchDB. I think you are totally right on having sections