Solutions Journal
A Fantastic Rails Plugin
Monday, Mar 01, 2010 at 10:01 AM | Solutions
What a time saver We have a project that has a few associations starting with user. The User has many project and projects has many stopwatches. We were working on... Read more
Expire Action Cache with Rake
Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010 at 02:00 PM | Solutions
For a site we have been updating, we needed the action cache expired every so often independent of the sweeper. Unfortunately, we were having difficulty using the expire_action or expire_fragment... Read more
JQuery Toggle Function
Friday, Oct 16, 2009 at 09:01 AM | Solutions
A JQuery Toggle Function to Replace the RJS/Scriptaculous Visual_Effect Helper We have been using JQuery instead of Prototype and Scriptaculous a lot this year and needed an easy, non-obtrusive function... Read more
Installing Sphinx on Snow Leopard
Monday, Sep 28, 2009 at 07:58 PM | Solutions
Upgrading to Snow Leopard was pretty smooth save for a few items. Sphinx was giving a little trouble connecting to mysql. Instead of using 9.8.1, we found Sphinx 9.9-rc2 to... Read more
Remove Files From Git Repo
Tuesday, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:03 PM | Solutions
If you ever have a case where you want to remove files from a git repo without deleting the files in the process, you can do this: Add the files... Read more
Sphinx, Thinking_Sphinx, and Whenever
Tuesday, Aug 04, 2009 at 04:41 PM | Solutions
Setting up Full Text Search For a recent project, we needed to install a full text search engine. After doing some research and speaking with colleagues, we found the combination... Read more
Working with Delayed Job
Friday, May 22, 2009 at 02:56 PM | Solutions
Delayed Job is great for offloading processes out of the way for users. For Heraldr, we needed to be able to send a lot of emails from the site without... Read more
Deploying Rails 2.3.2
Friday, Apr 24, 2009 at 03:54 PM | Solutions
If you run into a deploy error with Capistrano when deploying a rails 2.3.3 app, you might need to add the irs_process_scripts plugin. You can install it from github at... Read more
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