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On 10/30/2010 9:22 PM, Charles Calvert wrote:
>
> On 10/29/2010 11:18 PM, Charles Calvert wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to construct a capistrano recipe that will execute a series
>> of tasks across multiple servers. I've never used capistrano before, so
>> I thought this would be a good learning experience. However, I've hit a
>> bump.

This thread describes the basic problem that I was trying to solve, and
it seems that Capistrano doesn't support my use case.

<http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano/browse_frm/thread/cba0d3817621a55d/41\
03e04af7c64fb4>

Back to the drawing board ...

--
Charles Calvert
Celtic Wolf, Inc.
(703) 580-0210
charles.calvert@...
http://www.celticwolf.com/
Blog: http://www.celticwolf.com/blog/
Twitter: celticwolfinc

The winning lightning talk from the last meeting was Ryan McGeary's talk on
CoffeeScript. He provided this link to his blog post about it.

http://ryan.mcgeary.org/talks/2010/10/21/coffeescript-novarug/

This was a very cool talk, especially to those of us who are doing lots of
javascript in our Rails applications nowadays. Ryan gets a free ticket to
Rubynation 2011 and a speaker slot, where he might just give an expanded version
of this intro to CoffeeScript.

Gray

--- In novarubygroup@yahoogroups.com, "Gray" <gherter@...> wrote:
>
> Not at all. We allow javascript folks in. ;^)
>
> Gray
>
> --- In novarubygroup@yahoogroups.com, Chris Williams <voodootikigod@> wrote:
> >
> > Mind if I give a quick talk about the promotejs effort I launched at JSConf
> > eu?
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Gray <gherter@> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > I put this on the agenda.
> > >
> > > Gray
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In novarubygroup@yahoogroups.com <novarubygroup%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > > Charles Calvert <cbc-novarubygroup@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 10/19/2010 7:48 PM, Gray wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > FYI, this meeting is this Thursday. Let me know if anyone else is
> > > > > planning to do a talk, and I will put it up on the blog post.
> > > >
> > > > Is anyone interested in a talk on the FasterCSV gem? I could do a few
> > > > minutes on that.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Charles Calvert
> > > > Celtic Wolf, Inc.
> > > > (703) 580-0210
> > > > charles.calvert@
> > >
> > > > http://www.celticwolf.com/
> > > > Blog: http://www.celticwolf.com/blog/
> > > > Twitter: celticwolfinc
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>

All,

Dave Keener asked me about installing Ruby and Rails on Windows.  I
created this blog post based on the info I wrote up for him.  I'm
posting it here in the hope that someone else might find it useful.

<http://www.celticwolf.com/blog/2010/11/03/installing-ruby-on-rails-on-windows/>

--
Charles Calvert
Celtic Wolf, Inc.
(703) 580-0210
charles.calvert@...
http://www.celticwolf.com/
Blog: http://www.celticwolf.com/blog/
Twitter: celticwolfinc

Post it to rubyflow.com too
On Nov 4, 2010 8:59 PM, "Charles Calvert" <cbc-novarubygroup@...>
wrote:
> All,
>
> Dave Keener asked me about installing Ruby and Rails on Windows. I
> created this blog post based on the info I wrote up for him. I'm
> posting it here in the hope that someone else might find it useful.
>
> <
http://www.celticwolf.com/blog/2010/11/03/installing-ruby-on-rails-on-windows/
>
>
> --
> Charles Calvert
> Celtic Wolf, Inc.
> (703) 580-0210
> charles.calvert@...
> http://www.celticwolf.com/
> Blog: http://www.celticwolf.com/blog/
> Twitter: celticwolfinc
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>


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On 11/4/2010 9:00 PM, Carl Fyffe wrote:
>
> Post it to rubyflow.com too

Thanks for pointing me to that site, Carl.  Done.

--
Charles Calvert
Celtic Wolf, Inc.
(703) 580-0210
charles.calvert@...
http://www.celticwolf.com/
Blog: http://www.celticwolf.com/blog/
Twitter: celticwolfinc

As always, you guys are welcome to join us.

Here is the URL with more information:
http://www.meetup.com/dcruby/calendar/15115978/

Please RSVP if you plan on attending; we have limited space.

Thanks!
Joe

Has anyone had any luck installing Memcached on Windows 7?

--- In novarubygroup@yahoogroups.com, Charles Calvert <cbc-novarubygroup@...>
wrote:
>
> All,
>
> Dave Keener asked me about installing Ruby and Rails on Windows.  I
> created this blog post based on the info I wrote up for him.  I'm
> posting it here in the hope that someone else might find it useful.
>
>
<http://www.celticwolf.com/blog/2010/11/03/installing-ruby-on-rails-on-windows/>
>
> --
> Charles Calvert
> Celtic Wolf, Inc.
> (703) 580-0210
> charles.calvert@...
> http://www.celticwolf.com/
> Blog: http://www.celticwolf.com/blog/
> Twitter: celticwolfinc
>

The easiest solution might be to standardize the deploy path on each server,
using symbolic links if needed. Then your recipe doen't need any special
cases. HTH

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Charles Calvert <
cbc-novarubygroup@...> wrote:

>
>
> All,
>
> I'm trying to construct a capistrano recipe that will execute a series
> of tasks across multiple servers. I've never used capistrano before, so
> I thought this would be a good learning experience. However, I've hit a
> bump.
>
> The directory in which the tasks will be executed may vary from server
> to server. Here's an example:
>
> role :my_hosts, 'hostone.com', 'hosttwo.com'
> dirs = {
> 'hostone.com' => '/public_html',
> 'hosttwo.com' => '/wwwroot'
> }
> set :my_dirs, dirs
>
> task :my_task do
> dirs = fetch(:my_dirs)
> run "ls -l #{dirs[]}" # need the host name from the role here
> end
>
> I found this thread in the Google Group that seems to indicate that it's
> not available, but can be added via a server definition:
> <
>
http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano/browse_frm/thread/e39e50502f4a4c51/0b6\
2809058a11796?lnk=gst&q=host+name#0b62809058a11796
> >.
> I don't know what a server definition is, or how I would access it in a
> task.
>
> Am I going about this the right way?
>
> --
> Charles Calvert
> Celtic Wolf, Inc.
> (703) 580-0210
> charles.calvert@... <charles.calvert%40celticwolf.com>
> http://www.celticwolf.com/
> Blog: http://www.celticwolf.com/blog/
> Twitter: celticwolfinc
>
>
>


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On 10/30/2010 1:22 PM, Jonathan Julian wrote:
>
> The easiest solution might be to standardize the deploy path on each server,
> using symbolic links if needed. Then your recipe doen't need any special
> cases. HTH

Thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately, that won't work in this case.
  There are a bunch of other issues too, as I'm essentially trying to
execute the same tasks across heterogeneous installations of Joomla,
some of which are on separate servers and some of which are on a single
server under various virtual hosts.  I took my issue to the Capistrano
list and have gotten some suggestions there.

If I come up with something useful, I'll report back.

--
Charles Calvert
Celtic Wolf, Inc.
(703) 580-0210
charles.calvert@...
http://www.celticwolf.com/
Blog: http://www.celticwolf.com/blog/
Twitter: celticwolfinc

On 11/6/2010 9:42 AM, robertneel wrote:
>
> Has anyone had any luck installing Memcached on Windows 7?

I haven't tried, sorry.

--
Charles Calvert
Celtic Wolf, Inc.
(703) 580-0210
charles.calvert@...
http://www.celticwolf.com/
Blog: http://www.celticwolf.com/blog/
Twitter: celticwolfinc

Hi everyone,

I thought that some of you would be interested in this upcoming event. A MongoDB
conference is coming to Washington, DC next Thursday, on November 18th. The
details are below. Please check out the agenda or register at
http://www.10gen.com/conferences/mongodc2010.

Best,
Meghan

MongoDC

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TIME
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LOCATION
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I'm looking for an experienced developer to work on a CMS project for George
Mason University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences. The project is
about halfway complete and we lost a team member to a new job out-of-state.

We are building a CMS to drive the college's sites using Rails 3.

The ideal candidate will have:
- Demonstrable Rails application development experience;
- Experience writing unit, functional and integration tests;
- Strong SQL skills;
- An instinct for good user interface and information architecture;
- Facility with JavaScript (JQuery), CSS, XHTML and the DOM; and
- Energy, creativity and a passion for writing well-structured code and
delivering quality work.

Terms and schedule are negotiable. This is a temporary, wage position
which will last approximately six months on a full-time schedule or
longer if the developer works part-time.

Yooouuch!

https://github.com/blog/744-today-s-outage

Gray

Sounds like they did a pretty good job recovering.  I remember when this
happened to ma.gnolia and they didn't have a backup so they just went out of
business.

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Gray <gherter@...> wrote:

>
>
> Yooouuch!
>
> https://github.com/blog/744-today-s-outage
>
> Gray
>
>
>


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On 11/15/2010 12:01 PM, Gray wrote:
>
> Yooouuch!

BTDTGTTS.  It's no fun.

--
Charles Calvert
Celtic Wolf, Inc.
(703) 580-0210
charles.calvert@...
http://www.celticwolf.com/
Blog: http://www.celticwolf.com/blog/
Twitter: celticwolfinc

So does this imply that the production database password was the same as the
test one??? Because that would seem to be the only way the prod database
could have been destroyed like that (well, assuming they are using Rails
which I am not sure about).



On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Charles Calvert <
cbc-novarubygroup@...> wrote:

>
>
> On 11/15/2010 12:01 PM, Gray wrote:
> >
> > Yooouuch!
>
> BTDTGTTS. It's no fun.
>
> --
> Charles Calvert
> Celtic Wolf, Inc.
> (703) 580-0210
> charles.calvert@... <charles.calvert%40celticwolf.com>
> http://www.celticwolf.com/
> Blog: http://www.celticwolf.com/blog/
> Twitter: celticwolfinc
>
>
>


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I think it means they have the password in version control, not necessarily
that they are the same.
On Nov 15, 2010 4:23 PM, "Scott Leberknight" <
scott.leberknight@...> wrote:
> So does this imply that the production database password was the same as
the
> test one??? Because that would seem to be the only way the prod database
> could have been destroyed like that (well, assuming they are using Rails
> which I am not sure about).
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Charles Calvert <
> cbc-novarubygroup@...> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 11/15/2010 12:01 PM, Gray wrote:
>> >
>> > Yooouuch!
>>
>> BTDTGTTS. It's no fun.
>>
>> --
>> Charles Calvert
>> Celtic Wolf, Inc.
>> (703) 580-0210
>> charles.calvert@... <charles.calvert%40celticwolf.com>
>> http://www.celticwolf.com/
>> Blog: http://www.celticwolf.com/blog/
>> Twitter: celticwolfinc
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>


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We're looking for some more folks to join us tomorrow night for the Lucene/Solr
meetup in DC.  Details here: 
<http://www.meetup.com/NOVA-Lucene-Solr-Meetup/calendar/15295187/

See you there!

	 Erik

We're looking for some more folks to join us tomorrow night for the Lucene/Solr
meetup in DC.  Details here: 
<http://www.meetup.com/NOVA-Lucene-Solr-Meetup/calendar/15295187/

See you there!

	 Erik

Yeah, I suppose so. I guess someone just used the prod environment
accidentally, then?


On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Carl Fyffe <carl.fyffe@...> wrote:

>
>
> I think it means they have the password in version control, not necessarily
> that they are the same.
> On Nov 15, 2010 4:23 PM, "Scott Leberknight" <
>
> scott.leberknight@... <scott.leberknight%40nearinfinity.com>>
> wrote:
> > So does this imply that the production database password was the same as
> the
> > test one??? Because that would seem to be the only way the prod database
> > could have been destroyed like that (well, assuming they are using Rails
> > which I am not sure about).
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Charles Calvert <
> > cbc-novarubygroup@... <cbc-novarubygroup%40celticwolf.com>>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On 11/15/2010 12:01 PM, Gray wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Yooouuch!
> >>
> >> BTDTGTTS. It's no fun.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Charles Calvert
> >> Celtic Wolf, Inc.
> >> (703) 580-0210
> >> charles.calvert@...
<charles.calvert%40celticwolf.com><charles.calvert%
> 40celticwolf.com>
>
> >> http://www.celticwolf.com/
> >> Blog: http://www.celticwolf.com/blog/
> >> Twitter: celticwolfinc
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
>
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That's what the blog post said. Misconfigured CI environment.

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Scott Leberknight
<scott.leberknight@...> wrote:
> Yeah, I suppose so. I guess someone just used the prod environment
> accidentally, then?
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Carl Fyffe <carl.fyffe@...> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I think it means they have the password in version control, not necessarily
>> that they are the same.
>> On Nov 15, 2010 4:23 PM, "Scott Leberknight" <
>>
>> scott.leberknight@... <scott.leberknight%40nearinfinity.com>>
>> wrote:
>> > So does this imply that the production database password was the same as
>> the
>> > test one??? Because that would seem to be the only way the prod database
>> > could have been destroyed like that (well, assuming they are using Rails
>> > which I am not sure about).
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Charles Calvert <
>> > cbc-novarubygroup@... <cbc-novarubygroup%40celticwolf.com>>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 11/15/2010 12:01 PM, Gray wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Yooouuch!
>> >>
>> >> BTDTGTTS. It's no fun.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Charles Calvert
>> >> Celtic Wolf, Inc.
>> >> (703) 580-0210
>> >> charles.calvert@...
<charles.calvert%40celticwolf.com><charles.calvert%
>> 40celticwolf.com>
>>
>> >> http://www.celticwolf.com/
>> >> Blog: http://www.celticwolf.com/blog/
>> >> Twitter: celticwolfinc
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
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>> >
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Register here:
http://novarug.org/articles/2010/11/23/nov-30-callbacks-in-rails3-by-neeraj-sing\
h

Nov 30: Callbacks in Rails3 by Neeraj Singh

Title: Neeraj Singh on Callbacks in Rails3

When: Tuesday Nov 30, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Food: Food and Drink will be provided by Near Infinity Corporation.

Description: Callbacks are important part of Rails. It is used everywhere from
before_filter in controller to after_destroy in ActiveRecord.

Callback code has undergone a lot of change in Rails3. Beside discussing the
changes from Rails2, the presentation would go in detail how exactly Rails3 made
callbacks faster.

The talk will also discuss a few things to watch out for while declaring
callbacks on ActiveRecord.

Neeraj Singh is a Ruby on Rails contributor, jquery-ujs contributor, jQuery
hacker and a web developer.

Location:

This will be in NIC's new training center, which is huge and awesome.


Near Infinity HQ
1881 Campus Commons Drive Suite 203 (training center)
Reston, VA 20191

Call 703 727-1307 (Gray's cell phone) if you have trouble getting in.

Parking: There is plenty of parking out in front of the building or in the
garage behind it.

FYI, Scott will be at the DevIgnition happy hour on Friday at around 7 PM. If
anyone wants to stop by for a drink please do so. GitHub will be sponsoring the
meetup.

This will be at Champps in Reston (DevIgnition is at the Oracle Reston building,
just a block or so from Champps).

Gray

--- In novarubygroup@yahoogroups.com, "Gray" <gherter@...> wrote:
>
> FYI, we have a Git class coming up at NIC, put on by JumpstartLab. I've seen
Scott speak on the Ruby conference circuit. He is an excellent presenter, so I
assume this will be worthwhile training.
>
> Here is the information, that I have to pass along.
>
> Advanced Git with Scott Chacon / JumpstartLab at Near Infinity
>
> The Git source control system is quickly taking over the development
> world, replacing SVN and CVS. It's strengths lie in fast, distributed
> control of source code for teams from one to thousands (like the Linux
> kernel). But if you're interested in this class, you already know
> that.
>
> The real power of Git comes when you move beyond simply "doing what
> you used to do in SVN, just with Git." It's more than just commits and
> clones. In this advanced session we'll explore topics like:
>
> * Managing and merging multiple branches
> * Workflow best practices (rebasing, merging, etc)
> * Finding issues with bisect and blame
> * Hooks
> * Submodules
> * Customizing
>
> This one-day session will be led by Scott Chacon, chief Git evangelist
> over at GitHub, creator of GitCasts, and author of Pro Git (Apress)
> and Git Internals (Peepcode).
>
> Tickets are on Early Bird discount for $425 until November 4 and $475
> after that.
>
> Learn More: http://jumpstartlab.com/courses/git/
> Buy Tickets: http://jumpstartlab.stagehq.com/events/429
> Questions: contact@...
>

FYI, I just got this from Derek.

Gray
----
Ruby on Rails developer
Location:  Chantilly, VA
Duration:  6 months to perm

looking for an experienced Ruby on Rails developer to join a small team and take
charge of a critical web application. The project is stable, it has been going
on for several years, and we have many customers. The baseline is constantly
changing and evolving based on both our own ideas and our customers' needs for
adding capabilities and making improvements. You'll be working with a few other
Ruby on Rails developers on the same web application. This position will require
making design decisions for the web application and to technically oversee the
work of the other developers. This position is not an exclusive front end or
back end developer; work is involved with all parts of the Rails application.
There are other Ruby on Rails projects in various stages of development within
the organization, and you may be asked to provide guidance and recommendations
for such projects.


Here's what we need you to have:
. At least 2 years of professional web application development with Ruby on
Rails on a production system.
. At least 4 years of professional web application development in any language.
. Database design and SQL experience. You need to have a good understanding of
how ActiveRecord works in Rails.
. Front end design experience with HTML and CSS.
. Experience with JavaScript
. Experience writing unit and functional tests in Rails.
. Experience developing in a Linux/Unix environment.


Here's what our ideal candidate would have in addition to the above:
. B.S. Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other related field.
. Experience leading development of Ruby on Rails web applications in a team
environment.
. Experience with MySQL.

Thank you,

Derek S. Adams

JAVA/J2EE Specialty Recruiter

APEX Systems, Inc.

3190 Fairview Park Dr.

Suite 200

Falls Church, VA  22042

P: 703-256-2000

F: 703-842-8275

dsadams@...

www.apexsystemsinc.com

This is question for anybody who has used facebook api. I am trying to use
omniauth (to authenticate) and rfgraph (to query graph api) in my rails app but
cannot seem to get the email addresses of my friends. I saw quite a few postings
on the web that said this is not allowed for privacy reasons. Also looking at
the facebook api's permission page
(http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/permissions), looks like you
cannot get access your friend's email. Does anybody know if this is possible or
not?

-Navjeet

As far as I know it is NOT possible

Joel

On Dec 1, 2010, at 3:31 PM, navjeet wrote:

> This is question for anybody who has used facebook api. I am trying to use
omniauth (to authenticate) and rfgraph (to query graph api) in my rails app but
cannot seem to get the email addresses of my friends. I saw quite a few postings
on the web that said this is not allowed for privacy reasons. Also looking at
the facebook api's permission page
(http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/permissions), looks like you
cannot get access your friend's email. Does anybody know if this is possible or
not?
>
> -Navjeet
>
>



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On 12/1/2010 3:31 PM, navjeet wrote:
>
> This is question for anybody who has used facebook api.

You might ping Dave Keener if he doesn't join the thread.  He's done a
lot of work with the Facebook API and gave a presentation on it last month.

--
Charles Calvert
Celtic Wolf, Inc.
(703) 580-0210
charles.calvert@...
http://www.celticwolf.com/
Blog: http://www.celticwolf.com/blog/
Twitter: celticwolfinc