So been using Sphinx with the UltraSphinx plugin and I came across the requirement to use filters to reject records. Unfortunately in the plugin the filters are hardwired to submit the ‘exclude’ parameter as ‘false’ i.e include. Time for a quick hack I think…….
Very easy to fix, just open up the ‘internals.rb’ file in the [...]
I’ve been using the Hop Toad web app for a while now to collect errors from my Rails apps and its been working out great. It drops in very simply and replaces the Exception Notifier plugin I was using.
Big advantages are the archive of errors and the ability to mark them as dealt with. Of [...]
So I needed to parse the log files for SlimTimer this weekend to correct a data loss issue due to a small issue with implementing https for subscribers. The issue required looking for requests that had returned something other than “200 OK” collecting the parameters and entering any data that had got lost. After a [...]
So, next lesson from TweetLists: the user id given in the xml from the public timeline is not a unique identifier. The screen name is the only way to identify a user. I ended up with 17 different ids for one user!!! Hence, gave up fixed it and dropped the database – too much effort [...]
I released TweetLists last night, well actually this morning (about 3am), the idea being to try and capture a little of the zeitgeist on Twitter by aggregating the links people are talking about. At the moment there are 3 lists, the live feed, a popular feed (the links ordered by the number of times they [...]
Found a bit of a gotcha when building a form recently using form_for, fields_for and the check_box helper. Because Rails adds a hidden field for each checkbox and fields_for for new objects produces ids like ‘users_invites__selected’, if you try to generate multiple new objects in the same form things can get a little confused. I [...]
I added the UserVoice feedback system to the FCKeditor demo page today. So any bugs or ideas for the plugin can be stored in a central place. If you have found any issues recently (and can be bothered) it would be great if you could put them up there. I will copy over any ones [...]
I think this is great, very useful and gets YSlow off your back……
Asset Packager
Key Features
Merges and compresses javascript and css when running in production.
Uses uncompressed originals when running in development.
Handles caching correctly. (No querystring parameters – filename timestamps)
Uses subversion revision numbers instead of timestamps if within a subversion controlled directory.
Guarantees new version will get downloaded [...]
After a couple of months of intense coding Robert Loch and I launched RecommendBox yesterday. Its a site based around requesting and giving recommendations to your friends. There were a few immediate issues!! IE 6 is not yet fully supported, but on the whole it went ok. Now, sleep…….
There is a new version of the Fckeditor plugin available. It is a very minor bug fix release to deal with the improper constantizing of model names as reported by a couple of people. Oh and I also checked it works with Rails 2. The demo is running on 2.0.2.
The plugin is available from Ruby [...]
