[rails-oceania] was: soliciting names

2008-11-19 Thread Daniel
Don't want to hijack the thread - but what do people use for testing javascript these days? I got a little sick of jsunit with the test frame interface; so I ripped out the assertion code and put it into something simpler. -- Daniel Bush On Nov 20, 9:22 am, Dave Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[rails-oceania] Re: was: soliciting names

2008-11-19 Thread Daniel
On Nov 20, 1:51 pm, Julio Cesar Ody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://github.com/nathansobo/screw-unit/tree/master Looks interesting. Thanks. Dave, sorry - Should have changed the subject line. -- Daniel Bush --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

[rails-oceania] Re: how to do differences of arrays of objects?

2009-08-28 Thread Daniel
Note also that if you actually use these as the keys to a hash, you will get collisions with arrays of strings, which could confuse the hell out of someone in 6 months time. On Aug 28, 4:49 pm, Clifford Heath clifford.he...@gmail.com wrote: On 28/08/2009, at 4:39 PM, Sonia Hamilton wrote:  

[rails-oceania] Re: Railscamp transport

2009-11-19 Thread Daniel
leg. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Daniel daniel.r.he...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I'm looking to take PT (or get a lift with some kind soul; If you're taking the monash / eastlink / princes hwy to get there, I'm nearby, let me know). Tried to post something similar

[rails-oceania] Re: End of year Melbourne RORO drinks

2009-11-25 Thread Daniel
+1, but don't plan on getting a yahoo id. On Nov 25, 4:52 pm, Julian Doherty julian.doherty...@gmail.com wrote: IN! Excellent plan. Hmm, got a boozy end of year lunch for one of the project teams I'm on. Could make for a messy night, and an unproductive Thursday. But totally worth it.

[rails-oceania] Re: Rails recaptcha (or any other service) fallback strategy when it is down

2010-04-21 Thread Daniel
If you can reach the reCAPTCHA site and the client can reach you, you should be able to assume the client can get to recaptcha (since the internet routes around damage). Therefore you should be able to write a keepalive sweeper that pings reCAPTCHA every few minutes, and provides a class method to

[rails-oceania] Re: Mentoring Thoughts

2010-04-23 Thread Daniel
Pairing to close rails tickets / build awesome plugins would appeal to me. Anyone else interested? On Apr 23, 3:14 pm, David Lee deathtoallfanat...@gmail.com wrote: Nicholas mentioned open source projects. I don't think open source projects alone can provide everything structured mentoring

[rails-oceania] Dynamic forms

2010-04-23 Thread Daniel
I've been looking for a good JS dynamic form solution, and it doesn't look like there's anything great out there for complex forms (formtastic is handy until you need to create new records via a has_many - but then you're back to adding lines via custom JS). I have this idea for a javascript

[rails-oceania] shameless class=plug Warnr 1.0 released

2010-04-24 Thread Daniel
A few people at railscamp expressed interest in something I was hacking on, so I've cleaned it up some and released it. It lets you specify that validation errors on some model fields should be treated as 'warnings' rather than 'errors'. Records are still saved even if you have warnings

[rails-oceania] Re: Dynamic forms

2010-04-24 Thread Daniel
%= semantic_form_for @recipe do |ref| %   %= ref.semantic_fields_for(:ingredients) do |inf| %     %= inf.input :quantity %   % end % % end % On 24/04/2010, at 4:59 PM, Daniel wrote: I've been looking for a good JS dynamic form solution, and it doesn't look like there's anything great out

[rails-oceania] Re: Alas, I have lost a singular sock

2010-05-02 Thread Daniel
Or perhaps Sock.find(:all, :conditions = ['location = ? and color = ? and worn = false', 'REA', 'Yellow']) to avoid unnecessary record instantiation. On Apr 30, 9:18 pm, Brent Snook br...@fuglylogic.com wrote: Have you tried Sock.find(:all, :group = 'colour')? On Apr 30, 9:25 am, Xavier Shay

[rails-oceania] Re: Speeding up view rendering?

2010-09-22 Thread Daniel
40 queries? Are you sure they are only taking 1ms each? Even if the database engine only takes 1 second to run the query, there could be some per-query latency in the database connection. On Sep 22, 1:39 pm, Steve Hoeksema st...@seven.net.nz wrote: While there are quite a few of them (~40) in

[rails-oceania] Re: Strange deadlocks in Ruby 1.9.2/Cucumber/Capybara

2010-10-08 Thread Daniel
To rule out some basic issues, I'd first set the wait timeout to about 1 second for DOM lookups (can't remember the setting right now), and then prepending almost every step that checks for an element with 'wait_until { has_css?(css) }'. That will ensure your tests fail quickly if it's just

[rails-oceania] New gem release and shameless plug

2010-11-07 Thread Daniel
even more than the next guy, so the idea of maintaining what was going to be thousands of lines of XSLT didn't exactly grab me. So I wrote a DSL called 'Excesselt' and it made the job a whole pile easier. I hope someone else finds it handy too. - Daniel -- You received this message because you

[rails-oceania] Re: New gem release and shameless plug

2010-11-08 Thread Daniel
Thanks for that Dave. You can also gem install excesselt. On Nov 8, 7:47 pm, Dave Bolton davebol...@gmail.com wrote: So I wrote a DSL called 'Excesselt' and it made the job a whole pile easier. https://github.com/DanielHeath/excesselt On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Daniel daniel.r.he

[rails-oceania] Usability and OHS

2010-11-21 Thread Daniel
Just a thought I was going to give a lightening talk on last meetup that might be better as a messageboard discussion. What impact would it have if employees started raising software usability as an occupational (mental) health issue? [IANAL, but] If I understand correctly, companies are legally

[rails-oceania] Re: Usability and OHS

2010-11-21 Thread Daniel
I see software as being part of the workspace; for instance, interacting with a computer that locks up at random all day every day will cause 'learned helplessness'. I'm perfectly well aware of what real mental health issues are (a discussion for a less public forum), and I believe that a poor

[rails-oceania] Re: Usability and OHS

2010-11-21 Thread Daniel
work environment. I don't think it's a stretch at all to say that over an extended period, that unhappiness may develop into a very serious condition. On Nov 22, 10:14 am, Daniel daniel.r.he...@gmail.com wrote: I see software as being part of the workspace; for instance, interacting with a computer

[rails-oceania] Re: Usability and OHS

2010-11-21 Thread Daniel
of beliefs. On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Daniel daniel.r.he...@gmail.com wrote: I see software as being part of the workspace; for instance, interacting with a computer that locks up at random all day every day will cause 'learned helplessness'. I'm perfectly well aware

[rails-oceania] Re: Usability and OHS

2010-11-21 Thread Daniel
I that the discussion will help us learn something interesting (otherwise I wouldn't have posted it). That said, I'd rather keep any sort of fire well away from this board. On Nov 22, 11:45 am, Andrew Grimm andrew.j.gr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorely tempted to reply to these comments, but I'm

[rails-oceania] Re: Usability and OHS

2010-11-21 Thread Daniel
mental health issue really are. Cheers, Anthony On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Daniel daniel.r.he...@gmail.com wrote: Just a thought I was going to give a lightening talk on last meetup that might be better as a messageboard discussion. What impact would it have if employees

[rails-oceania] Re: Usability and OHS

2010-11-21 Thread Daniel
Sorry Mark, my post was intended to be private (I've removed it). On Nov 22, 12:35 pm, Mark Ratjens m...@ratjens.com wrote: Daniel said, On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Daniel daniel.r.he...@gmail.com wrote: I'm quite upset by this comment. Ad hominem attacks like this stifle real

[rails-oceania] Re: Usability and OHS

2010-11-21 Thread Daniel
6-7 minutes). On Nov 22, 12:39 pm, Anthony Richardson goo...@anthonyrichardson.com wrote: Daniel, My apologies, that was in no way directed as a personal attack. It was a comment regarding the theoretical employee from this question. What impact would it have if employees started raising

[rails-oceania] Re: Generating a url for soft classes

2010-11-29 Thread Daniel
Why not just use sti the way rails wants you to? On Nov 29, 9:04 pm, Hugh Evans h...@artpop.com.au wrote: How many different product types do you envisage you will need? If not many then just go with Jason's suggestion and have a controller/resource for each. Besides, a good human oriented

[rails-oceania] Re: Text similarity analysis algorithms

2010-12-02 Thread Daniel
Restoring xsl is a PITA - especially since you really can't unit test. Might I shamelessly plug my gem excesselt, which does the same thing as xsl in a tenth the code whilst being maintainable and testable? On Dec 2, 1:05 pm, Andrew Grimm andrew.j.gr...@gmail.com wrote: The Code Metrics

[rails-oceania] Re: Help me with your ARel fu (trying to construct a dynamic number of columns, where the columns are derived from the results of a join)

2010-12-30 Thread Daniel
I don't think vanilla arel will help you here. Of course you could do it in two queries (and take the performance hit for running two queries instead of one). On Dec 30, 10:32 pm, Steven Ringo ste...@stevenringo.com wrote: Gabe, I can write what you need in one SQL query. If that helps, let me

[rails-oceania] Re: project planning interface thoughts (job?)

2011-01-31 Thread Daniel
For a reasonably simple 'plumbing' project for 500 users, is a guru coder the right choice (hard to hire/keep, expensive)? Also, would writing a good training manual be cheaper than making the system so usable that users don't need training? - Daniel On Jan 31, 4:55 am, Jason Crane ja

[rails-oceania] Re: [MEL] February Meetup, 24th

2011-02-22 Thread Daniel
pizza this month. Still sorting out talks. Toby Hede has something to say, and Daniel Heath promised to talk about something but I can't remember what. Mike Bailey has a left over talk from last time as well. Please do email me speakers, and we also have room for more. See you

[rails-oceania] Re: [MEL] Meetup, 31st March - You should speak

2011-03-15 Thread Daniel
I'll talk on my gem, Excesselt (a testable, readable replacement for XSLT - although probably not as fast). On Mar 15, 9:16 pm, James Healy ji...@deefa.com wrote: I'll give the lightning talk I reneged on in January - gem_lint (or what I did on the Christmas holidays). For a sneak peak, check

[rails-oceania] Re: Slow Rendering JSON

2011-05-24 Thread Daniel
We've used representative (https://github.com/mdub/representative_view and https://github.com/mdub/representative) for this - it used to be a bit slow (esp on 1.8.7), but the latest release did wonders for performance. On May 24, 4:42 pm, Samuel Richardson s...@richardson.co.nz wrote: Hi List,

[rails-oceania] Re: melbourne ppl stuck at gold coast?

2011-06-15 Thread Daniel
Just want to thank Fendy David for taking me back down to Melbourne. Both awesome guys who really helped me out :) - Daniel On Jun 13, 12:30 pm, Lfendy lfe...@gmail.com wrote: Me(fendy) and david rented a 4 seater car driving back. To melbourne. Call us at 0435193792david or0433195217fendy

[rails-oceania] Re: Versioning associated models for future reporting

2011-09-28 Thread Daniel
milestone to project example') - Daniel On Sep 28, 5:23 pm, Scott Harvey scottandrewhar...@gmail.com wrote: Hey everyone, I'm working on the reporting section of an application at the moment and we are trying to determine the best way to take snapshots of a project during it's lifecycle. Along

[rails-oceania] Re: Underused Threads for Async emails

2012-02-06 Thread Daniel
Ruby has always had pretty poor threading support (GIL, only green threads in 1.8), so the community built multiprocess tools instead. On Feb 3, 6:13 pm, Dmytrii Nagirniak dna...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/02/2012, at 5:41 PM, Simon Russell wrote: I've actually never known what *exactly*

[rails-oceania] Re: Rich text editor

2012-02-11 Thread Daniel
Unfortunately design mode / contenteditable (which most rich editors use) results in markup which is awful on most browsers. That can be OK for html emails but it's worth being aware of. - Daniel On Feb 12, 10:58 am, Mike Williams m...@dogbiscuit.org wrote: On 08/02/2012, at 9:09 AM, Steven

Re: [rails-oceania] ruby.org.au

2012-04-23 Thread Daniel
Should we raise issues for feature requests, or are they tracked some other way? I'd feel more motivated to contribute if there were an obvious feature/bug list. On Monday, April 23, 2012 5:48:10 PM UTC+10, Keith Pitty wrote: Hi Tim, That is a feature waiting to be written ;) Meanwhile,

Re: [rails-oceania] Rails friendly responsive design boilerplate?

2012-05-15 Thread Daniel
There's always http://goo.gl/Qk6na although I'm not sure about the browser support. On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 6:44:36 PM UTC+10, Justin French wrote: Hi, I think bootstrap is pretty good as a way of learning the concepts, as is zurb's one, and they're great if you know nothing about CSS,

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Essential Gems

2012-05-16 Thread Daniel
On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 10:27:39 PM UTC+10, James Healy wrote: On 15 May 2012 17:23, Nicholas Faiz nicholas.f...@gmail.com wrote: Inherited Resources. It's great. Personally I avoid inherited resources and devise like the plague. They're helpful for the simple case, but as soon as you

[rails-oceania] Re: Melbourne Meetup Notes June 2012

2012-06-28 Thread Daniel
-to-senior - 4-day week!! * Lonely Planet (speak to Daniel Heath) - Join a team of 10-ish, adding 1-2 more ## Presentations * Glen Maddern (AngularJS) * David Goodlad (Ruby Packaging) * Florian Hanke (modifying and reloading code in a running process) * Fred Wu (Building Gems) * Chendo

[rails-oceania] Re: force mobile style/media?

2012-10-31 Thread Daniel
Capybara with selenium-webdriver lets you add any .xpi (firefox plugin) to the firefox session it creates. In theory you could get Ripple going with it. On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 7:11:39 PM UTC+11, jamesl wrote: Hi All, I'm needing to test responsive layouts and functionality and I'm

[rails-oceania] Re: automated webpage to PDF creation

2012-11-07 Thread Daniel
I think chromedriver (selenium-webdriver / chrome) can do it (although it's pretty hacky). You have to - List the current window handles - call window.print - re-list the current window handles, remove the ones that were there before (to get the handle for the print window) - tell selenium to

[rails-oceania] Re: [OT] Railscamp Tassie and boardgames

2012-11-12 Thread Daniel
I can bring a few things. Anything that's won Spiel des Jahreshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiel_des_Jahresis usually a good bet (Settlers, Dominion etc). On Monday, November 12, 2012 6:50:47 PM UTC+11, Daryl wrote: One of the things I really love about Railscamp evenings is the fact that

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Amazon Sydney EC2 Latency

2012-11-14 Thread Daniel
+1 for having frontside cache servers in multiple regions. As long as you have reasonably cacheable content it can be a pretty substantial speed improvement. On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 8:02:50 PM UTC+11, James Healy wrote: On 14 November 2012 09:52, John Dalton john@gmail.com

Re: [rails-oceania] Call for Speakers @ Melbourne Meetup

2012-11-28 Thread Daniel
I can give a quick talk on upgrading a reasonably large app from rails 2 to rails 3. On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 3:16:53 PM UTC+11, Ivan Vanderbyl wrote: I'll jump in and do a 5 min talk/demo on nothing related to Ruby. Hint: it has rotors. Regards, Ivan Vanderbyl Sent from my

[rails-oceania] Re: Greetings from Poland

2012-12-19 Thread Daniel
On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 10:32:58 AM UTC+11, Krzysztof Kotlarek wrote: Hello everyone, I wanted to introduce myself because I am new in Australia's ruby community.  My name is Krzysztof Kotlarek. I am Ruby on Rails developer from Poland. Currently I am working for start-up from

[rails-oceania] Re: Reek and/or other code smell detectors

2013-07-06 Thread Daniel
+1 for Cane. On Friday, July 5, 2013 10:47:21 PM UTC+10, Fred Wu wrote: We hook up Cane (https://github.com/square/cane) with our CI - builds will fail if the code quality tests don't pass. On Friday, 5 July 2013 13:20:50 UTC+10, Michael Webb wrote: Hey all, I'm fairly new to Ruby and

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Melbourne Ruby, newbie night tomorrow night (Thursday 29th August)

2013-08-30 Thread Daniel
My slides are up at: activerecord.daniel.heath.cc Sample code is at https://github.com/DanielHeath/arel_talk/blob/master/music.rb On Friday, August 30, 2013 8:55:56 AM UTC+10, Matthew Delves wrote: My slides from the Ember.js talk are up on speakerdeck at

[rails-oceania] [JOB] Software Engineer - Brisbane, Australia

2016-02-10 Thread daniel
*Software Engineer - Ruby on Rails* *Tappr - Brisbane, Australia (On-Site)* *Job Description* We’re looking for an experienced mid-senior level Ruby on Rails Software Engineer to join our fast paced team here at Tappr , continuously developing and optimising our

[rails-oceania] Re: [Discussion] Open Plan Offices?

2016-10-27 Thread Daniel
I saw those photos and noped right out. Collaboration is almost impossible in a space like that. Was there a popular management book or something recommending it? Not sure why they are everywhere these days. On Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 6:00:02 PM UTC+11, Danial Pearce wrote: > > This

[rails-oceania] Re: [Discussion] Open Plan Offices?

2016-10-30 Thread Daniel
I don't think there's a coherent argument to be made that small-group offices are too expensive. 4-to-an-office spaces are available for a bit over 20 grand a year in Melbourne CBD; practically speaking it costs ~3k/year/person vs open plan. Given also that employees in open plan offices take

[rails-oceania] Re: AR office launch drinks this Friday

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel N
Congratulations lads... Bet it looks awesome... Do you have a photostream of it available? Cheers Daniel On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Tim Lucas t.lu...@toolmantim.com wrote: Mike has been busy slavin away on our new little office where we'll be reinstating fortnightly Jellys as well

[rails-oceania] rails + sphinx + sqlite3

2009-03-18 Thread Daniel Bush
the riddle client api. My requirements are very modest. [1] for sphinx, he has made changes to rc1 0.9.9 for sqlite3.- http://github.com/aughey/sphinx-sqlite3/tree/master [2] the sqlite3 changes have not been pulled into freelancing-god's thinking-sphinx version (AFAICT!) -- Daniel Bush http

[rails-oceania] Re: Algorithm Problem

2009-04-01 Thread Daniel Bush
tables. If someone wants S / Red or Red / S, you just add a where-clause to the above with the two conditions using AND. I find a use for this sort of join once every... uhm .. decade I suppose. -- Daniel Bush http://blog.web17.com.au http://github.com/danielbush 2009/4/1 Torm3nt torm

[rails-oceania] Re: Deployment

2009-04-07 Thread Daniel Bush
the log rotations and setup monit. Ideally you get two different service providers and have the monits monitor externally and internally for a low-cal solution. I haven't used apache/passenger yet; I've been using nginx/mongrel. -- Daniel Bush http://blog.web17.com.au http://github.com/danielbush

[rails-oceania] Re: Right tool for the job

2009-04-07 Thread Daniel Sabados
IMHO, if one were building a site that would cater for millions of hits per day before they've even launched it, they've either hit the holy grail of ideas or they're building a site that will host good quality porn. I wouldn't be making any assumptions about high traffic loads early in the game.

[rails-oceania] Re: To all my fellow freelancers out there..

2009-04-23 Thread Daniel Sabados
I agree. From experience: Print/TV/Radio is a necessary evil for maintaining (and not establishing) brand awareness, unless you have very deep pockets. Web is far cheaper and far more transparent, especially with the likes of google adwords, which we've been using for the past year or so. On

[rails-oceania] Re: roro melbourne - 6:30pm April 30th at Horse Bazaar

2009-04-30 Thread Daniel N
. Also thanx Ben for organising a great meetup :D I've put my slides up online also http://www.slideshare.net/hassox/warden-introduction Cheers Daniel On Apr 30, 11:43 am, Marty Andrews ma...@martyandrews.net wrote: I've already let Ben know this, but the guy I had an appointment

[rails-oceania] Re: Contract position in Perth

2009-05-14 Thread Daniel Bush
but they may just be the thing for some of us. Just opining some. Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Bush http://blog.web17.com.au --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To post

[rails-oceania] Re: Melbourne Meet

2009-05-20 Thread Daniel N
I'm happy to knock together a lightning talk on using event machine to receive emails if anyone wants to hear about that. Cheers Daniel On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Marty Andrews ma...@martyandrews.netwrote: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Ben Schwarz ben.schw...@gmail.comwrote: I'll

[rails-oceania] Re: CSS frameworks

2009-06-16 Thread Daniel N
Grant, thanx dude... I'm going to investigate this. That's been what's always put me off when investigating these things in the past. Churs On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Grant Bissett gr...@grantbissett.comwrote: On 17/06/2009, at 12:57 PM, Daniel N wrote: It's the fact that by using

[rails-oceania] Re: CSS frameworks

2009-06-17 Thread Daniel N
by the whole thing. That's pretty much it. Sass makes me feel pain. The abstraction is quite nice, but I think the cost in terms of outputted CSS is too high. Lachlan, What cost is it that you're talking about mainly? I thought the output of it was pretty good.. ~Daniel

[rails-oceania] Re: BootUp Camp - Please help spread the word - Applications closing soon

2009-06-22 Thread Daniel Sabados
Great idea. For any wannabe entrepreneur, there's a mountain of experience to be had here and IMHO, it's worth it whether it passes or fails. On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Brian Menzies bmenz...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Gabe Yes we will be doing another weekend StartUpCamp in Sydney

[rails-oceania] Re: A Melbourne Hackfest

2009-07-09 Thread Daniel N
oh oh me I'm interested in doing something like this... when is it? On Jul 9, 9:30 pm, Ben Schwarz ben.schw...@gmail.com wrote: Ahh, hack sessions. As a developer its your chance to socialize, learn, inspire and generally tool about with like minded geeks. I'd like to propose a hack day /

[rails-oceania] Re: A Melbourne Hackfest

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel N
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Clinton clinton.for...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 9, 10:30 pm, Ben Schwarz ben.schw...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have a large(ish) office that would be happy to have a bunch of developers manning the desks for 24-48 hours over a weekend? I had a chat to

[rails-oceania] Re: Ruby certification?

2009-09-08 Thread Daniel N
More and more lately I've come to the conclusion. Github is my resumé! On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Joshua Partogi joshua.part...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Julio Cesar Ody julio...@gmail.comwrote: Perhaps (that's just my guess) because in Japan the market gives

[rails-oceania] Thoughts on idea...

2009-09-26 Thread Daniel Bush
would be having a file or series of files that specify exactly what the resources are and what parameters they expect rather than leaving it as implied via a hodge podge of controller and view code. Crazy? Already done? Daniel -- Daniel Bush --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[rails-oceania] Re: Thoughts on idea...

2009-09-27 Thread Daniel Bush
2009/9/27 Ben Hoskings b...@hoskings.net On 27/09/2009, at 12:59 PM, Daniel Bush wrote: My thought was this: wouldn't it be nice not to have to create X number of controller files with Y number of actions in each with bespoke code doing pretty much the same sorts of things each time

[rails-oceania] Re: Melbourne RORO, October edition

2009-09-28 Thread Daniel N
I can give a talk on Pancake which I've ben working on for the last couple of months. It's a rack assembler / frameworky type of thing. I'm looking to give it a somewhat official introduction so #roro would work well :) On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Glen Maddern glenmadd...@gmail.comwrote:

[rails-oceania] Re: What are my options in regards to a payment gateway in aussie.

2009-10-08 Thread Daniel Bush
would like to sell but have no idea how successful this whole adventure will be so I do not want to put too much money on the line to start off with. Is eWay the only viable option outside of working with banks? -- Daniel Bush --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[rails-oceania] Re: [SLUG] Any suggestions for places to do Personal Sprints in Sydney

2009-10-09 Thread Daniel Bush
actually done it. http://wiki.workatjelly.com/JellyInSydney Don't know if it's still going. If you find a good get away place with all the mod cons, not too costly, be sure to let me know. Regards, Daniel 2009/10/10 Adam Kennedy adamkennedybac...@gmail.com Hi gang Lately I've been finding

[rails-oceania] Re: Melbourne RORO, October edition

2009-10-14 Thread Daniel N
Sorry guys, I have to pull out of the speaker line up. I'm going to be in the boonies that day and unable to get to melbs until 8pm :'( Sorry to pull out at such late notice On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Ben Schwarz ben.schw...@gmail.com wrote: Chris and Glen, I don't have your contact

[rails-oceania] Re: rorosyd: Inaugural Ruby Hack Night

2009-10-27 Thread Daniel Bush
Josh, Could you elaborate on the concept a little bit. Are we all hacking on the same thing here? PS how hard is to park in that neck of the woods?? Cheers, Daniel 2009/10/28 Josh Price jos...@gmail.com Just a quick reminder about the Hack Night tonight. Don't forget to put your name

[rails-oceania] Re: Ruby in Australia...

2009-10-28 Thread Daniel N
on this reply so more people will see this email. Cheers Daniel --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

[rails-oceania] Re: Ruby in Australia...

2009-10-30 Thread Daniel N
. Dynamic types and snags on the barbie go together like cheese and crackers. On 29/10/2009, at 11:35 AM, Daniel N wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Hal Fulton rubyhac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all... I have talked with two or three Rubyists in Australia -- principally

Re: [rails-oceania] Railscamp 7 Dates

2009-12-04 Thread Daniel N
Point me to the form! On Friday, December 4, 2009, Ben Hoskings b...@hoskings.net wrote: Looks freaking awesome dudes. Top shout! — Ben On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Lincoln Stoll lst...@lstoll.net javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'lst...@lstoll.net'); wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 19:12 +1100,

Re: [rails-oceania] javascript framework for rails

2009-12-07 Thread Daniel N
-js/ client: http://github.com/creationix/jquery-haml http://github.com/edspencer/jaml a moustache renderer: http://github.com/janl/mustache.js Hope that helps Daniel On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:20 PM, David Lee deathtoallfanat...@gmail.comwrote: Gabe, thanks for the link. I think JS templating

Re: [rails-oceania] Recruiting three roles in Melbourne

2009-12-21 Thread Daniel N
Mate, You need to learn your audience... We are big enough and committed enough to Rails to need a permanent team to develop our portfolio of three Rails apps, and anchor our current multi-disciplinary team and outsourced development partners. Totally the wrong language. Tell us what you do

Re: [rails-oceania] require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'foo')

2009-12-22 Thread Daniel N
I use dirge for this gem install dirge require ~'../foo' Available now from a gemcutter near you On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Andrew Grimm andrew.j.gr...@gmail.comwrote: I think it may be possible to change require. Doesn't rubygems monkeypatch require, possibly using alias? Andrew

Re: [rails-oceania] Using OAuth and Authlogic with Google Apps Premier for app login

2010-01-10 Thread Daniel N
If you're not too fixed on authlogic you might try this one: http://github.com/roman/warden_oauth (not mine) it seems quite general and may work for you. Cheers Daniel On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Daryl Manning daryl.mann...@gmail.comwrote: I've been thrashing on this for a couple of hours

Re: [rails-oceania] OT: How to implement monthly contributions for charities

2010-01-19 Thread Daniel Sabados
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Thomas Sinclair tho...@icdesign.com.auwrote: I'm currently implementing eway for a customer, they seem to support recurring billing as well as all the main Australian banks, best of luck. They do support recurring billing but from what I know, the recurring

Re: [rails-oceania] Your favourite Ruby development setup

2010-01-24 Thread Daniel Bush
lying around though :) -- Daniel Bush http://daniel-bush.blogspot.com http://github.com/danielbush -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from

Re: [rails-oceania] RailsConf US 2010

2010-02-17 Thread Daniel Sabados
I received an alumni code earlier today: RC10ALM I got it for having attended previously. Cheers, Dan. On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Pat Allan p...@freelancing-gods.com wrote: Hi All RailsConf registration has opened up - it's on in June (7th-10th), in Baltimore (which is close to

Re: [rails-oceania] CouchDB Slides

2010-03-25 Thread Daniel N
Nice talk tonight Dave :D Looking forward to next months installment :) On 25 March 2010 22:50, David Goodlad da...@goodlad.ca wrote: Evening all! I had a great time giving my talk at the Melbourne meetup. If anyone's interested in my slides, they're available on github at

Re: [rails-oceania] Passenger on Rails: nginx or apache?

2010-03-25 Thread Daniel N
What Ben says... I've used passenger on nginx and it feels just as solid as on apache... On 26 March 2010 15:36, Ben Schwarz ben.schw...@gmail.com wrote: Ngnix support has been in for at least a year. Unless you're doing mad traffic use the one that you're most familiar with. Sent from my

[rails-oceania] Less DNS Lookups vs Multipls Assets

2010-04-13 Thread Daniel Sabados
Hi, YSlow and Page Speed rant on about reducing DNS lookups by using a CDN, whilst rails advocates multiple asset servers so that browsers will open eight simultaneous connections rather than two. Is one method of asset delivery clearly better than the other or does it come down to best fit?

Re: [rails-oceania] bundler in production

2010-04-27 Thread Daniel N
On 28 April 2010 12:21, Lawrence Pit lawrence@gmail.com wrote: I do: bundle install vendor/bundler_gems --disable-shared-gems bundle lock Where vendor/bundler_gems is a symlink to a shared path (shared only by one app). Btw, even on a dev machine I wouldn't put bundler gems in

Re: [rails-oceania] melbourne jquery/javascript meetup

2010-05-19 Thread Daniel N
and other exciting things as well. If you are interested in coming along or even presenting at such an event, shoot me an email. Sounds great. —ben_h Hey Toby, Ryan and I are also looking to organise this. Would you be up for a catch up next week in the evening? Daniel -- You

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: melbourne jquery/javascript meetup

2010-05-19 Thread Daniel N
On 20 May 2010 11:42, Toby tobyh...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks everyone. I've set up a new group: http://groups.google.com/group/melbourne-javascript-jquery @Daniel - you going to either of the Dave Thomas talks next week? Could have a chat then, otherwise ping me direct and we can sort

[rails-oceania] Re: melbourne jquery/javascript meetup

2010-06-01 Thread Daniel N
On Jun 1, 9:53 pm, Ryan Allen r...@yeahnah.org wrote: Hi everyone! I got jshackers.org, so we can set up a site and be all legit and crap. It'll be like the old days! Ben is like the shizzy at sites, I reckon he should make it. I'm 99.99% sure we can get the Envato offices for a

Re: [rails-oceania] Tracking unique visitors

2010-09-22 Thread Daniel N
you're having trouble, and you're able to have it all in one app then I'd just pop it in the same one. As Julio said though, if there's something out there that already does it, that's prolly the go. Cheers Daniel On 23 September 2010 11:11, Joshua Partogi jpart...@scrum8.com wrote: Hi Daniel

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Anyone interested in building Facebook communities?

2010-10-28 Thread Daniel Tsui
I would be interested is well but I'm in Sydney. Daniel On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Mike Bailey m...@bailey.net.au wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:56 PM, redster reddy...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I would be interested. Cool. Doesn't sound like there's a lot of other interest out

Re: [rails-oceania] Handlers - rethinking the Rails' controller / view interface

2010-11-02 Thread Daniel N
Hey Andrew, I'm assuming it should be taken in the context of a fish and chip shop rather than a gambling establishment ;) On 3 November 2010 14:47, Andrew Grimm andrew.j.gr...@gmail.com wrote: I may have misunderstood what you said, but isn't two dollar chip perfectly valid English? Andrew

Re: [rails-oceania] RSpec: How to test that a class's initializer method invokes some method?

2010-11-21 Thread Daniel N
a method call? Cheers Daniel On 22 November 2010 09:46, Gabe Hollombe g...@avantbard.com wrote: Hey peeps: Let's say I've got a Person class like so: class Person def initialize do_something end private def do_something #do something useful end end Now, let's say I'd

Re: [rails-oceania] Yet another CMS thread

2010-11-25 Thread Daniel N
list for Radiant is pretty friendly, too. Cheers, Rach On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Daniel N has@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys, I'm needing to get a decent cms going and *gasp* shock horror, I'm not _really_ that worried if it's written in rails. At the moment I'm looking

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Yet another CMS thread

2010-11-25 Thread Daniel N
Hi, Is refinery something we could get in and add esi support to? Is there a plugin system for refinery? Cheers Daniel On 26 November 2010 08:09, parndt p...@resolvedigital.co.nz wrote: I can definitely recommend Refinery CMS and it's Rails3, too. Of course I am a core developer

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Yet another CMS thread

2010-11-26 Thread Daniel N
Thanx mate :D This is really my first foray into the world of cms's so I'm not sure exactly what's what just yet. I'll let you know if I need serious customization :) Cheers Daniel On 27 November 2010 12:57, Nicholas Faiz nicholas.f...@gmail.com wrote: I've been working on Inkling - a DSL

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Yet another CMS thread

2010-11-29 Thread Daniel N
may be a very complex system or one with specialised needs. Hope that helps. Refinery does look pretty nice, I think I'll give it a go :D Thanks Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To post to this group, send

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Yet another CMS thread

2010-11-29 Thread Daniel N
Do you know if anyone has swapped out the authlogic component for devise in refinery? We need to use our own custom authentication. Cheers Daniel On 30 November 2010 10:26, Daniel N has@gmail.com wrote: On 30 November 2010 07:18, parndt p...@resolvedigital.co.nz wrote: An easy call

Re: [rails-oceania] Rails Camp 9 Venue and Dates Confirmed

2010-12-09 Thread Daniel N
Looks like an awesome venue :D Nice job... On 9 December 2010 22:55, Keith Pitty ke...@keithpitty.com wrote: Fellow Railscampers, Those of you who were present at Rails Camp 8 in Perth may remember my announcement late on Sunday about Rails Camp 9. I can now confirm that we have paid the

[rails-oceania] Adelaide Ruby Meetup #1

2011-01-07 Thread Daniel Draper
. If you'd like to come along we'll be getting pizza and some drinks so bring along some spare change to chip in. Hope to see some of you there and get the Adelaide Ruby scene cranking again! Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Adelaide Ruby Meetup #1

2011-01-09 Thread Daniel Draper
+ 1 'advanced' talk? At staggered times (say beginners at 6, and the second at 6.45 or so)... COMMENTS?? :) On Jan 8, 1:36 pm, Daniel Draper dan...@netfox.com wrote: Hi All, There will be a Ruby User Group meeting in Adelaide at the CodeFire offices, level 1, 193 Wakefield St on Feb 1st

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