Monthly Archives: May 2008

Rails background process – simple, fast, easy.

May 31, 2008
My situation was this - Rails 2.0 app running on slicehost (ubuntu 8.04) in passenger mod_rails The goal was Dynamic PDF generation for a product catalog ( > 100 pages) This event had to be triggered from within the rails request / response cycle, but run outside of it I needed the simplest, fastest, more reliable way for this [...]
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Point

May 25, 2008
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mod_rails set RAILS_ENV variable to QA, Staging, or Production

May 23, 2008
I’m using mod_rails with capistrano and multi-stage (qa, staging, production), and wrote this workaround so that the RAILS_ENV could be set correctly in each stage.  Mod_rails sets RAILS_ENV once in the global server conf file, but I needed it set once for each environment: qa, staging, and production.  I tried setting ENV['RAILS_ENV] in each file [...]
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May 22, 2008
Music Everything
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chanting patterns

May 22, 2008
The music you’ll find here is intended to be imperfect, unfinished, improvised impressions and reflections.  Spectres stoking embers. Phantoms chanting patterns.
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contact

May 22, 2008
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jQuery validation with Prototype

May 16, 2008
Here is the jQuery validation plugin fixed up so that it works if you have prototype installed along side jQuery.  I just replaced references to $() with jQuery() in the jQuery.validations.js file. jquery.validate.js with prototype
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