Re: Rails 2.3.6

2010-05-25 Thread Carl Anderson
2.3.7 and 2.3.8 are already out (came out today actually). Silly little mistakes were made but at least they fixed them quickly. LOL Carl On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Keenan Brock kee...@thebrocks.net wrote: Two things you may want to keep in mind: People mentioned rails 2.3.4 - 2.3.5

Re: Heroku db backup and restore tasks using pg_dump!

2010-05-10 Thread Carl Anderson
That looks pretty helpful. Have you tested it with any production datasets yet? Carl On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Jason jason.a.pe...@gmail.com wrote: Just wanted to let you guys/girls know that I've created a project up on github with backup and restore tasks using pg_dump. I've wanted

Re: Howto: automate DB backups

2010-04-20 Thread Carl Anderson
Hey, that's great info, I didn't know there was a dropbox gem! Carl On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Andy Shipman a...@cllearview.com wrote: That is very cool. I adapted it slightly to download to Dropbox instead - using the dropbox gem - and now I get a backup locally as well as in the

Re: Database performance

2010-04-14 Thread Carl Anderson
One thing that may or may not matter in your case but might be worth mentioning, do you do any searches by anything other than id? Did you add indexes for those other columns? Carl On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Neil Middleton neil.middle...@gmail.comwrote: I've an app that I've just

Re: Foreign Keys

2010-03-24 Thread Carl Anderson
Just in case people read this later on and have forgotten, right now S3 has a 5 GB file size limit, so if your database backup tar is larger than that you might run into problems. Carl On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Matt Buck mattb...@capitalthought.comwrote: That's correct. I use this

Re: new to ruby / git / heroku : environments / best practices

2010-02-25 Thread Carl Anderson
Heroku runs in production. I'm not sure about other people, but my gitignore typically looks like this log tmp db/*.sqlite3 db/data.yml *.*~ Carl On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:18 PM, dan mr.dan.ma...@gmail.com wrote: without incessant pushing of files, which ruby environment is heroku running?

Re: dns wtf for .it domain

2010-02-08 Thread Carl Anderson
There's some useful information about querying for DNS records here http://articles.slicehost.com/2010/1/11/test-your-slicehost-dns-configuration and here http://articles.slicehost.com/2010/1/11/getting-more-out-of-dig Carl On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Keenan Brock kee...@thebrocks.net

Re: FUSE

2010-02-04 Thread Carl Anderson
I've found this Firefox addon ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3247) works pretty well for general S3 use. Carl On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:58 AM, trans transf...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to use FUSE mounts with Heroku? I was thinking about how to handle large assets via

Re: FUSE

2010-02-04 Thread Carl Anderson
seconds, etc. Though being able to use FUSE for access to S3 would be an interesting concept. Hopefully someone with more knowledge will be able to respond. Carl On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:53 PM, trans transf...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 4, 11:30 am, Carl Anderson nexus...@gmail.com wrote: I've

Re: Import (push?) tables to heroku?

2010-01-28 Thread Carl Anderson
I'm not sure if this will help, but I found these two links that might help you out (check the comments on the first one, they look useful to you): http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3393 http://shifteleven.com/articles/2006/09/28/loading-fixtures-in-a-migration Carl On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at

Re: Varnish support for ESI?

2010-01-11 Thread Carl Anderson
I'm not sure, but another way you can do that with whole page caching is to have that be status info be grabbed by an ajaxhttp://railscasts.com/episodes/169-dynamic-page-cachingcall. Carl On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:38 AM, adeel...@gmail.com adeel...@gmail.comwrote: Wondering if Heroku's Varnish

Re: Default rails landing page won't go away.

2010-01-08 Thread Carl Anderson
You may also need to try: heroku restart I had the same problem a while back and once I restarted the server it fixed the problem. I'm wondering if the index page was cache in Varnish perhaps? Carl On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:46 AM, David Dollar da...@heroku.com wrote: Try the following git

Re: Accidental 'heroku db:reset'

2010-01-08 Thread Carl Anderson
I suppose you could probably alias the command out in your .bashrc file or something. Carl On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 6:05 PM, David Dollar da...@heroku.com wrote: With db:reset you get a scary prompt asking you if you're sure. This is a good suggestion though. - David On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at

Re: Protecting your production environment

2009-09-11 Thread Carl Anderson
That was something I was wondering as well. I've literally had nightmares about doing just that (am I alone?) Carl On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Neil neil.middle...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure if someone has already covered this, but although there are loads of really handy features in

Re: Site down between Push and Migrate?

2009-08-13 Thread Carl Anderson
I think it might still say that somewhere in the docs because I remember being confused when I updated something a little while ago and something wasn't working, so when I figured out that my migration hadn't been activated yet, which took a little while to pin down as the problem, I was able to

Re: 502 Bad Gateway

2009-07-21 Thread Carl Anderson
I did just this the last time herokugarden had problems. From my experience the only thing you lose is the online editor, and I wasn't even using that anyway since it was too slow compared to just using gedit and git push. The move was worthwhile for me, and not difficult at all. Carl On Tue,

Re: performance expectations for 1 dyno 'blossom'?

2009-06-28 Thread Carl Anderson
I'll second newrelic's RPM. They had a free week long trial for the best package (gold, IIRC) a while back and it was pretty impressive. The free package is okay, and you can see enough to be reasonably useful, but there is a lot missing from the higher level packages. Carl On Sun, Jun 28, 2009

Re: Spam

2009-06-25 Thread Carl Anderson
I agree with Alex. The spam was annoying (until gmail started filtering it completely for me) but having it all in my email is a better option for me. Carl On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Alex Chaffee ale...@gmail.com wrote: Please keep the Google Group. Every web-based forum is missing

Re: Gem On Windows - I messed up my environment?

2009-05-26 Thread Carl Anderson
What version of windows are you running? on my Windows XP box I have HOMEPATH set to \Documents and Settings\Username and I don't have a HOME var. Closest I have is HOMEDRIVE and it is set to C:. Carl On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Ed Jones ed.jo...@gmail.com wrote: hey, i cannot now

Re: Gem On Windows - I messed up my environment?

2009-05-26 Thread Carl Anderson
26, 6:48 pm, Carl Anderson nexus...@gmail.com wrote: What version of windows are you running? on my Windows XP box I have HOMEPATH set to \Documents and Settings\Username and I don't have a HOME var. Closest I have is HOMEDRIVE and it is set to C:. Carl On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Ed

Re: Watch out: Exception reporting, environment vars, hoptoad etc

2009-05-26 Thread Carl Anderson
Thanks for that bit of info, important to know. Carl On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:36 PM, GreenAsJade martin.jg.greg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Heroku recommend, in their docs, that you use hoptoad or similar for exception reporting.  Great idea. They also recommend that you use environment

Re: Heroku | Backlog too deep

2009-05-25 Thread Carl Anderson
That was a good explanation and would make a good addition to the docs. So what is the difference between a dyno and a compute unit? Carl On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Adam Wiggins a...@heroku.com wrote: This doc is in the works right now, thanks for giving us a friendly nudge on getting

Re: Github, Heroku, hoptoad

2009-05-23 Thread Carl Anderson
True, I suppose it wouldn't matter, but it might be good to know how to handle this for other keys that you don't want put onto something like Github, but do want pushed out to remote production servers, like Merchant account keys, etc. Carl On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Jeremy Lightsmith

Re: reverting a commit?

2009-05-18 Thread Carl Anderson
Ah, ok. I tried --force but that just sent a bunch of dots across my terminal until it failed, so I gave up. Thanks, that worked like a charm. Carl On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Adam Wiggins a...@heroku.com wrote: In the case where you've edited the commits or reset the HEAD to rewind to