Posted by jpb Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:33:10 GMT
James Duncan Davidson has an interesting essay on The Web is a Pipe at his blog.
He brings up a lot of good points, especially about long-term support of your web application, that are applicable to things other than just Rails.
Posted by jpb Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:56:41 GMT
I was putting Paypal functionality into a Rails site I’m working on, using the paypal gem (which works great, btw), and ran into an annoying feature of the Paypal sandbox. I was looking at my sandbox Paypal transactions and they were all coming back “Pending” rather than “Completed”
It turns out that when you create a user in the Paypal sandbox for testing, if you only create a dummy bank account for it, any transactions you try to do with it will come back via IPN as pending, rather than completed. If you want your test transactions to come back with a “Completed” status, you have to add a fake credit card account to the sandbox user. I guess the fake banks don’t clear the echecks ;-).
Posted by jpb Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:41:23 GMT
IBM has an article on developing DB2 applications with Ruby on Rails here.
It includes a link to their DB2 adapter for Ruby.
Posted by jpb Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:27:00 GMT
Parallels released the final version of Parallels Desktop for Mac. Now you can run Windows for testing sites with IE and keep it safely imprisoned in a virtual machine so it can’t hurt your files on your Mac. Only works on Intel Macs since it’s a virtual machine, not an emulator.
Posted by jpb Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:54:00 GMT
There’s a plugin for Spotlight that will automagically index all your Ruby source code. Find it at Arcadian Visions.
Posted by jpb Thu, 22 Jun 2006 02:59:52 GMT
Syntax coloring for Lighttpd config files in TextMate. Get the bundle here.
Posted by jpb Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:03:00 GMT
This makes the backtraces in error pages into clickable links that jump you directly to the line of the relevant source file. Too useful for words. In your vendor/plugins directory, install with:
svn export svn://syncid.textdriven.com/svn/opensource/textmate_footnotes/trunk textmate_footnotes
Posted by jpb Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:57:00 GMT
SSHKeychain is a GUI replacement for ssh-agent. It’ll take care of locking and unlocking your ssh keys as you sleep your machine in addition to all the stuff you expect from ssh-agent. Will also let you create tunnels from the menu it adds to your menubar.
Posted by jpb Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:10:00 GMT
Visor provides a systemwide terminal window accessible via a hotkey, much like the consoles found in games such as Quake. Visor requires elements of Quartz only found in 10.4. Visor is compatible with 10.4 and higher only
Find it here.
Posted by jpb Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:24:00 GMT
Check out sloth, it’ll show what programs have which files or sockets open on your system. Nice little OS X utility.
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