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Re: August Lilleaas

August Lilleaas — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:01:14 -0000

I have no idea how you were able to do this. When I run the script, it asks
me for a bucket name. The only explanation I can think of is that you have a
~/.s3_service_bucket file on your system already (the file where the script
stores the bucket name), containing the string "public".

Re: August Lilleaas

August Lilleaas — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:25:28 -0000

Perhaps the input got garbled somehow? Open the keychain, look for a key named "s3_service". Open it and double check if the credentials are OK.

Re: August Lilleaas

August Lilleaas — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:55:31 -0000

Your ~/.s3_service_bucket is probably blank. That's where the script stores the bucket name. I just tested it locally with a blank ~/.s3_service_bucket and got the same error message you did.

Added a fix for this, download the latest version above (v3), and try again!

Re: August Lilleaas

August Lilleaas — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:24:17 -0000

Perhaps the input is off somehow. Open the service in automator, replace the shell script with `puts STDIN.read.inspect`, and paste what you get in the clipboard here. It might contain your S3 access credentials, so be sure to censor those before you paste it.

Re: August Lilleaas

August Lilleaas — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:06:18 -0000

Open a terminal and run these two commands:

# curl -O http://pastie.org/602867.txt
# ruby 602867.txt

What output do you get? Open the .txt file and try a few different values on the `input` part on the top. E.g your actual access key and so on.

Re: August Lilleaas

August Lilleaas — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:17:37 -0000

Whoops, thanks for pointing this out. Updated the article accordingly.

Re: August Lilleaas

August Lilleaas — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:26:02 -0000

I noticed this when testing. Didn't find a way to set the strata/level
of the dialogue. Will investigate though.

Re: Authlogic and rescue_from ActionController::RoutingError

August Lilleaas — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:15:34 -0000

Thanks! Found ya on google, had the same problem when rescue_from-ing to handle 404's.

Re: August Lilleaas

August Lilleaas — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:16:28 -0000

Well, it's not really a reference to that method, it creates a proc.

module Foo
  def self.bar
  end
end

p Foo.method(:bar).object_id
# => 85280
p Foo.method(:bar).object_id
# => 85220

So even though the functionality is very similar, it isn't a reference to a pointer or anything like that; it converts the method into a proc every time you call Object#method.

Re: August Lilleaas

August Lilleaas — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:25:47 -0000

D'oh, you were talking about include, not require. I apologize for the
brainfart.

Re: August Lilleaas

August Lilleaas — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:56:25 -0000

That's wrong. When you refer to `MyModule` of `lib/my_module.rb` in `app/models/my_model.rb`, Rails will require `lib/my_module.rb` for you, thanks to ActiveSupport::Dependencies, and it's generally better to rely on auto requiring in case of differences between Ruby's and Rails' load path.

Re: August Lilleaas

August Lilleaas — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:39:43 -0000

I must admit that using rake tasks to do the SSH-ing for me didn't cross my mind. The only benefit pushmaster provides is that you boil it all down to one command -- git push, and also the fact that you don't have to write any SSH-ing rake tasks ; ) I kinda like not having to do anything other than pushing, though. I like systems that doesn't get in my way, and that Just Works (tm) so that I don't have to think.

I would expect that the most frequent use of pushmaster is not to deploy webpages, but to provide 3rd party services that isn't in Github's official list of services with Git repository metadata, such as posting to your own properitary project manager whenever something happens on Github.

Re: August Lilleaas

August Lilleaas — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:06:03 -0000

Some credit should be given to the person/people that implemented named scopes. All you have to do is to define a class method and then call other class methods. Super simple.

Some credit should also be given to Rails itself. Allthough it's kind of trivial, metaclass is a shortcut for (class << self; self end), which makes the code a whole lot better looking. define_method is a instance method, so it has to be called on instances, not classes. In this case, the instance of Class for that particular class, or the metaclass as it's commonly called.

But indeed, Ruby should be given the remaining credit, which is a lot. Such a flexible and lovable language.

Re: August Lilleaas

August Lilleaas — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:07:18 -0000

Thanks for the heads up! I'm not that into parsers, so I've only noticed this behaviour but haven't given much thought to _why_ it behaves like this. I'll see if I can find a way to integrate this information in the article.

Re: August Lilleaas

August Lilleaas — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:01:59 -0000

Indeed. This article is about extending core classes within your own applications, so it doesn't really apply there. But if you're writing a gem or a plugin or anything similar, it definetely makes sense to namespace your core extensions. If you're writing a gem, you don't want to override String#camelize. It will render your gem impossible to use in the context of Rails, because your own String#camelize you use in the gem probably isn't compatible with Rails' String#camelize — effectively breaking Rails.

Re: Review: Figure Out When

August Lilleaas — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:54:50 -0000

Thanks for the review!

I just rolled out an update: The calendar now tries to pick a sensible first month. E.g. if you click 2 dates in january and 5 in february, february is the month you see when you open the calendar, regardless of the time of year you access the calendar. Thanks for the suggestion :)

Re: August Lilleaas

August Lilleaas — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:44:42 -0000

Neat! I've seen gems that adds their own String#camelize, String#underscore and so on, that are incompatible with the ones in ActiveSupport, making it impossible to use the gem in a Rails context. Made ActionController look for postsController instead of Admin::PostsController and other nasty things.

With that said: In a Rails app, you're in control, so you won't really need to do it there. But when you're creating a gem, namespacing core exts a module like this is definitely sensible — almost obligatory, I'd say. Nevertheless, thanks for mentioning this =)

Seems like there are ome caveats, though: http://pastie.org/496618. You have to inherit from the top-level class, and you have to use the class constructors and not literals. Having to use String.new("foo") instead of just "foo" all over the library/gem seems a bit tedious.

Re: Magnus Holm - Nokogirl

August Lilleaas — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:46:07 -0000

I usually type "concubine", fraudian slip I guess

Re: stuff - rails - Rest For Rails

August Lilleaas — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:31:36 -0000

Thanks! Added a few examples.

Re: stuff - ruby - Things You Can Do In Ruby

August Lilleaas — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:49:08 -0000

Hmm, on 1.8.6, this happens:

h = Hash.new {|hash, key| hash[key] = [] } h['wtf'] << 'hi' puts h.inspect # => {"wtf"=>["hi"]} h = Hash.new {|hash, key| [] } h['wtf'] << 'hi' puts h.inspect # => {}

It doesn't seem to check the arity either, Hash.new { [] } (without any block parameters) produces the same result.

Re: HTML formatting in a comment?

August Lilleaas — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:44:49 -0000

Seems l ike a code tag with multiple lines are pre-formatted.

hi allright

Re: stuff - ruby - Case Or Hash

August Lilleaas — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:24:59 -0000

I just learned something new about hashes, thanks!

I'll leave the article as it is, though, it's still a valid use case. Say, running default_path is horribly expensive so you only want to run it when you have to.

Re: stuff - meta - Please Welcome Disqus

August Lilleaas — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:51:05 -0000

Oh, isn't that great, I just re-bumped all the items in my RSS feed. Sowwy =/

Re: stuff - meta - Please Welcome Disqus

August Lilleaas — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:16:56 -0000

First, lol!

Re: ReinH — Bad Designers Steal Too

August Lilleaas — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:21:42 -0000

ReinH, what's up with leaving out the fact that it's openly available on github under the label "blogging engine" and then after swombat tweets you three times you post a tweet that mentions this blog post? It seems like you're the troublemaker here. Lame.