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Installing a git client on a shared host with no compiler
We are using Git to manage our deployments, but have some clients that use shared hosting services that don’t have git installed (in particular Hostgator.com). Most of these shared hosting services do...
View ArticleQuarkRuby: Consume non rails-style REST APIs
It seems that most “RESTful” APIs in the wild are well, pretty wild. They don’t meet the strict requirements of the pure CRUD/REST of ActiveResource. The article in QuarkRuby: Consume non rails-style...
View ArticleCross Domain RESTful AJAX with jQuery and Rails 2.2.2
Flinn Mueller aka actsasflinn wrote an blog post Cross domain RESTful JSON-P with Rails back in July. There he showed how to monkeypatch Rails to allow json-p to do all the REST verbs even when going...
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Want to work at a Startup with Cool Tech? (HBase, Clojure, Chef, Swarms,...
Opportunity Knocks Runa.com, the startup where I am CTO, is looking for great developers to join our small agile team. We’re an early stage, pre-series-A startup (presently funded with strategic...
View ArticleInstalling Ruby Mysql Gem on Snow Leopard Server
Snow Leopard Server (and at least Leopard Server) both have MySQL installed already. But its not a complete enough install to build the Ruby Mysql Gem. It seems that the Snow Leopard Server Mysql does...
View ArticleUsing the Official Opscode 0.8.x Gems to build EC2 AMI Chef Client and Server
Updates Mar 3, 2010 Added call to script ec2-set-defaults that is normally called on ec2 init that sets the locale and apt sources for EC availability Zone Introduction Opscode has officially released...
View ArticleAvoiding a series of tests with Ruby Hashes of Hashes that might have nil...
I’m mostly using Ruby to write Opscode Chef Cookbooks. There are a lot of hashes of hashes that contain attributes or Data Bags. Things that look like: app['rds_database'][environment]['rds_name'] If I...
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