[rails-oceania] Re: Melbourne Meet

. -- James Healy jimmy-at-deefa-dot-com Wed, 13 May 2009 11:57:24 +1000 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

[rails-oceania] Re: Video recording for the Sydney meeting on July 14

, so maybe that stuff turned out better (I'm sure it did). Out of curiosity, what was used to record the screens - software running on the presenting computer(s)? -- James Healy jimmy-at-deefa-dot-com Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:33:55 +1000 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[rails-oceania] Re: Melbourne Hackfest is go!

! Or something... -- James Healy jimmy-at-deefa-dot-com Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:37:51 +1000 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

[rails-oceania] Re: Ravelry

? -- James Healy jimmy-at-deefa-dot-com Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:15:23 +1000 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

[rails-oceania] ActiveResource

into? Know of any ActiveResource success (or failure) stories? -- James Healy ji...@deefa.com Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:13:48 +1000 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To post

[rails-oceania] Re: How do you describe the fields in your database?

file for easy access. -- James Healy ji...@deefa.com Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:11:46 +1100 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

[rails-oceania] Re: How do you describe the fields in your database?

comments from the DB however. One minor irritation is that it doesn't interact nicely with files that have a ruby 1.9 encoding statement (# coding: utf-8 and friends) at the top of the file. -- James Healy ji...@deefa.com Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:37:36 +1100

[rails-oceania] Videos from the October Melbourne Ruby Meeting

weren't captured correctly. I felt it was unfair to post video with no slides, the high quality of the presentations wasn't accurately reflected. I plan to be at the January meeting if speakers would like their talks recorded. -- James Healy ji...@deefa.com Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:36:46 +1100 -- You

Re: [rails-oceania] Just thought you all might like to know...

, kudos! It's a good thing they steered clear of vendoring too, you seem to be making very regular releases as you squash reported bugs. -- James Healy ji...@deefa.com Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:34:49 +1100 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails

Re: Mysql over postgres? (was Re: [rails-oceania] Your favourite Ruby development setup)

keeping a close eye on the drizzle fork of MySQL[1] though. Their MySQL without the bits I don't use (like views, stored procedures, triggers, prepared statements and multiple encodings) is intriguing. -- James Healy ji...@deefa.com Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:59:44 +1100 [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: [rails-oceania] Vim for Rails Developers screencast

I'm watching it now, and have found a few useful tips that easily make it worth the USD$9. I'm a vim user on Linux, and unfortunately the file doesn't seem to work in any media player on my machine (mplayer, totem, vlc). To watch it I had to boot into windows and use quicktime. -- James

[rails-oceania] Rubyconf India

a little close to the event). I just purchased a ticket and I'm planning to look at flights properly later tonight. Others thinking of going may influence my plans on when to leave, where to stay, etc. -- James Healy ji...@deefa.com Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:06:57 +1100 [1] http://rubyconfindia.org/ [2

Re: [rails-oceania] Rubyconf India

but nothing seemed right. crazy/fascinating is perfect :) -- James Healy ji...@deefa.com Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:48:34 +1100 -- 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

Re: [rails-oceania] Certification and training courses

. There was a discussion on this a few months ago [1]. The general consensus was that certification is a small benefit when applying for jobs in the Australian ruby community. Most people seem to prefer other indicators when evaluating potential hires. -- James Healy ji...@deefa.com Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:47:26

Re: [rails-oceania] factory girl vs machinist

Jono wrote: Does anyone know if there any significant differences between the two libraries apart from syntax that make one stand out from the other? There's at least one significant difference, Machinist is by Pete Yandell ('our Pete'). Piffle at technical merits, buy Australian! :) -- James

Re: [rails-oceania] Slides from my Web Performance talk

In my case, many images seemed to reduce in size by ~10%. Probably not enough to make a massive difference most of the time, but if it happens to get and image or two into 1 less TCP segment it may help a little. -- James Healy ji...@deefa.com Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:26:55 +1000 -- You received

[rails-oceania] e-commerce rails apps

aspects to it that make it different to a standard shopping cart, would spree be a good foundation to build some customisations on? Alternatively, are there competitors to spree I should investigate? cheers -- James Healy ji...@deefa.com Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:37:54 +1000 -- You received

Re: [rails-oceania] Advice - Bulk SMS Providers suitable for Ruby/Rails

north of 20c per message in most cases. -- James Healy ji...@deefa.com Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:15:55 +1000 -- 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] Re: Melbourne Ruby Meetup October

Ben Schwarz wrote: Recording currently depends on the hard work of 1 man (James Healy) If someone else can offer their services pending James' unavailability, then there shouldn't be any reason we can't get them recorded and online. At this stage I'm planning to be at the Octoboer meeting

Re: [rails-oceania] Arel joins

, be careful using it with MySQL - you can get some pretty funky (in a bad way) performance when mixing the IN operator with a sub-select. See http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=9090 -- James Healy ji...@deefa.com Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:39:23 +1100 -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [rails-oceania] Inside Rails 3 templating engine ...

Here's an example I saw advertised in the past few days: http://github.com/Volundr/prawn-rails It adds the prawn PDF library as a template option to rails3 in 50 lines. I haven't tried it you myself yet, so no idea if it's the best approach. -- James Healy ji...@deefa.com Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20

Re: [rails-oceania] Newbie Query: ActiveRecord multi-thread/process safe and auto-reload how-to

layer locks. Create an AR model called Lock, have your edit action create a lock, and subsequent requests to the same action are denied until the user submits the form. Messy, but sometimes required. -- James Healy ji...@deefa.com Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:18:50 +1100 -- You received this message

Re: [rails-oceania] [MEL] Call for Speakers/roromel Thursday 27th Jan

On 10 January 2011 08:39, Xavier Shay xavier-l...@rhnh.net wrote: Perhaps you, dear reader, should step up? Just a quick 5 minutes on what you were hacking on the holidays would be perfect... I can do a lightning talk on my holiday experiment - gem-lint, a rubygems plugin that checks compiled

[rails-oceania] Rubyconf 2010 Videos

Hi folks, I didn't run into any other Australians at Rubyconf in November (Dr Nic doesn't count, he defected) so now that most of the videos are available I thought I'd share my highlights. In no particular order, here are six talks I saw and enjoyed or missed and regretted when I heard the

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

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 out https://rubygems.org/gems/gem_lint. James On 15 March 2011 21:02, Xavier Shay xavier-l...@rhnh.net wrote: Hello hello, it's time to organise the Melbourne

Re: [rails-oceania] [MEL] March Meetup Wrapup

On 1 April 2011 08:14, Xavier Shay xavier-l...@rhnh.net wrote:  * James Healy is in ur gems findin ur lint Hey folks, the slides for my lightning talk are available at http://yob.id.au/presentations/gem-lint.pdf James -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Rackspace is closing down Slicehost

On 12 May 2011 11:23, Ben Hoskings b...@hoskings.net wrote: It sounds like what you miss about slicehost you'd find again in rimuhosting. I know I have a tendency to shill for them but it's motivated by 3, not $, I promise. :) My one grip with with rimu is that as their prices drop, the

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Rackspace is closing down Slicehost

On 12 May 2011 11:44, Ben Hoskings b...@hoskings.net wrote: I'd be surprised if they didn't upgrade you if you put in a ticket for it. You can jump into their Campfire room to ask too. I tried that a few months back. They gave me a $50 account credit and said, 'sorry for the misunderstanding.

Re: [rails-oceania] Ruby image manipulation gems beyond RMagick?

On 28 June 2011 14:48, Chris Corbyn ch...@flippa.com wrote: Does anybody know of any decent gems for working with images, other than RMagick, which seems quite old and unloved? My image manipulation needs are modest, so I usually just manually shell out to imagemagick. Ugly maybe, but it works

Re: [rails-oceania] Non RVM installation of Ruby on Ubuntu

My approach in production and on my dev laptop: * install ruby and rubygems from apt * install bundler and all gems via rubygems * I never use RVM - it's a hack and unnecessary * I never use ruby libraries from apt. For better or worse, single version at a time doesn't work for ruby libs. We

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: (possibly web based) alternative to cron for running scheduled jobs?

On 30 August 2011 11:12, Michael Pearson mipear...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, we're already using delayed_job here, but as far as I can tell they solve different problems. I use delayed job to solve many of the issues you mention, but it fails your multiple locations requirement. I have simple

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: (possibly web based) alternative to cron for running scheduled jobs?

On 30 August 2011 11:22, Michael Pearson mipear...@gmail.com wrote: Any good drop-in dashboards for DJ? Or does it have its own that I haven't found yet? Nope, but I haven't really looked very hard. If you find one, please let us know as my homebrew dashboard is pretty damn utilitarian. James

Re: [rails-oceania] Strategies for including a 'build id' in code

On 1 September 2011 09:23, malclocke malclo...@gmail.com wrote: I guess ideally I'd like to include the git commit id in code somehow, but svn style keyword substitution seems to be discouraged. I'd like the solution to work if the deployed code is not actually a git checkout. I'd like a

[rails-oceania] Code review request

Hi folks, I inherited the pdf-reader gem [1] a few years ago and it's since lived in the classic pre-1.0 limbo that so many libraries fall into. The API never quite felt right and I therefore never felt right about slapping a stable sticker on it. At the last railscamp I finally rebuilt the

Re: [rails-oceania] Issues with Psych, Syck and Bundler?

I've encountered this same issue and reported it at [1]. My work around has been to sit on bundler 1.0.9 for now. The YAML issues in 1.9.2 are a real mess, hopefully things get less painful with 1.9.3. You might also have some luck with adding RUBYOPT=-rpsych to your environment, although it

[rails-oceania] [Job] [Melbourne] Freelance Opportunity

, rspec, postgres and Linux. They have a few projects ready for immediate start and if things work out there is likely to be ongoing work. The pay rate is negotiable. For further details, please contact Chris Ennis at CERES directly - ch...@ceres.org.au. cheers James Healy [1] http://ceres.org.au/ [2

Re: [rails-oceania] Internal RESTful Communications

If you use libraries and infrastructure that take advantage of HTTP caching then it can be great decision. HTTP caching between your app servers and data store will make scaling reads super easy. James On 29/10/2011 2:57 PM, Samuel Richardson s...@richardson.co.nz wrote: What are peoples

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: REE Rails 3 Performance

that 37signals use, and the app is back to pre-Rails 3 performance levels. Of course, this will only help you if you're using REE or can easily switch. MRI 1.9.3 has similar GC tuning options to REE, they're definitely worth investigating. Here's a relevant tweet of mine from a few weeks

Re: [rails-oceania] Ruby Non-blocking Callbacks

You definitely don't want to farm HTTP requests into threads. Farm CPU bound code onto threads, keep IO bound code on the main event loop. Use em-http-request to do HTTP requests on the event loop. James On Dec 2, 2011 5:54 PM, Dmytrii Nagirniak dna...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/12/2011, at 4:38

Re: [rails-oceania] Why not JRuby?

I use MRI in dev and production, but the concurrency options in JRuby make me curious enough to give it a go every few months. Each time I try to get MRI 1.9 compatible code running on JRuby I hit issues that discourage me enough to give up for another few months. I tried last week and hit two

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: [Melbourne] roro-melbourne website?

On 7 January 2012 23:55, Mike Bailey m...@bailey.net.au wrote: Perhaps a blog on wordpress.com might be the simplest option? For the love of god, please don't inflict that on anyone. Updating a jekyll site hosted on github is as simple as committing a new file and pushing it to the github repo.

Re: [rails-oceania] JSON Views

Another option is a decorator library like draper [1]. The README has a to_json example. James [1] https://github.com/jcasimir/draper On 8 February 2012 12:13, Ben Taylor tayben...@gmail.com wrote: Hi roro, I have a very special purpose API built in Rails for an iPhone and Android game. At

Re: [rails-oceania] JSON Views

.. and just in case you wanted another option to evaluate.. https://github.com/josevalim/active_model_serializers is a newish gem from Jose Valim that looks interesting (but I'm yet to try it). James On 8 February 2012 12:13, Ben Taylor tayben...@gmail.com wrote: Hi roro, I have a very

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Freelancing for idiots

On 19 February 2012 22:53, Fred Wu ifre...@gmail.com wrote: A lot of times people go to meetups/conferences to find developers, so make sure you attend as many relevant events as you can. :) This. I've been doing freelance ruby for 4 years and every job (bar one) has fallen into one of two

Re: [rails-oceania] Controlling environment specific configuration (eg, database config) using environment variables

2012/7/29 Mike Bailey m...@bailey.net.au When and how are you setting the environment variable? I'm interested in this too. I've worked on apps with two dozen or more environment dependent config options (databases, API keys, admin email addresses, etc) and they usually end up being stored in

Re: [rails-oceania] One database - multiple applications

I once worked on a django (!) project that operated in the same way. It was an old PHP app that was slowly being ported to python - from the users point of view it was one app. We decided that only django could modify and manage the DB schema - even tables exclusively used by PHP. It worked

Re: [rails-oceania] Invalidate cache on hierarchical modal instances

The delimited string idea is a well known approach called path enumeration and storing it in the DB is quite common. Check out aboreal - it's one of a few gems that stores tree paths in the DB. It might give you some ideas on efficiently updating the stored path. https://github.com/mdub/arboreal

[rails-oceania] [JOB] Ruby/Postgres Developer in Melbourne, 4 Month Contract

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Re: [rails-oceania] which operating system to go with for ror jobs

Our team is 50/50 Linux/osx. Either is a fine choice for ruby or rails development and common on most teams. Windows is possible, but likely to be painful and cause compatibility issues (different gems required, etc) with other team members. James James On 17 Aug 2014 18:45, Rosie Williams

[rails-oceania] [Job] Experienced Ruby and Rails Developer in Melbourne

. You won't be working on yet another InvoiceItem model here Rate negotiable, contractors welcome. There's a slightly dated, but still relevant tour of our content management system and user visible metrics on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si0Z5j8MOXY James Healy -- You received

[rails-oceania] [JOB] Junior Role at The Conversation - Melbourne

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Re: [rails-oceania] DNS providers

On 10 March 2016 at 11:48, Tate Johnson wrote: > You don’t need to tie your registrar and DNS hosting together. Depending on your domain requirements, it's often not possible to anyway. Thanks to the mix of domains we require, we've ended up with one DNS host (dnsimple) and 4

[rails-oceania] [JOB] Database wrangler at The Conversation

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