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Postgresql and Sphinx and fe_sendauth no password supplied

over 2 years ago by Rob on Panasonic Youth.
Fun fact learned today about interactions between Postgresql and Sphinx. Assuming you are using Postgres as your app's database, and you are wiring Postgres...

Announcing the RunCodeRun Gem

over 2 years ago by Rob on Panasonic Youth.
Hook up your RunCodeRun builds from your command line. Install: gem install runcoderun Usage: cd [your-runcoderun-enabled-project] rcr [command...

Rails 2.3, JSON, and lamentations

almost 3 years ago by Rob on Panasonic Youth.
There is a nasty gotcha in Rails 2.3 involving rendering JSON from models and a surprising change in behavior. If you are familiar with how Rails renders...

CapGun 0.2.0 - now with all Git commits since the last release

almost 3 years ago by Rob on Panasonic Youth.
Relevance has released CapGun 0.2.0 to GitHub and Rubyforge. We've added more Git knowledge to this release, courtesy some great work from Muness. Your...

Pair programming? TDD? Where is the proof?

over 3 years ago by Rob on Panasonic Youth.
Often while discussing agile practices with agile skeptics, the question of proof comes up. “Are there studies done showing TDD? How do you know...

Upgrading git via MacPorts

over 3 years ago by Rob on Panasonic Youth.
Git 1.6.1 was released at Christmas, and if you are still on 1.6.0 or lower its well worth upgrading. MacPorts is the way to go for Git on the Mac - the...

Best Albums of 2008

over 3 years ago by Rob on Panasonic Youth.
So, here are my top ten albums of 2008, just a bit late. All links go to the album on the Amazon MP3 store (if available) and they are affiliate linksFleet...

MacPorts Ruby performance gotcha

over 3 years ago by Rob on Panasonic Youth.
If you install Ruby from MacPorts (all the cool kids do), be aware that the first 1.8.7 port had some issues that basically broke performance, making it...

Tarantula 0.0.5 Released - the “Naked Aardvark” release

over 3 years ago by Rob on Panasonic Youth.
Announcing version 0.0.5 of Tarantula. Tarantula is a big fuzzy spider. It crawls your Rails application, fuzzing data to see what breaks. It can verify...

Scp or rsync failing with no error message? Check your startup scripts…

over 3 years ago by Rob on Panasonic Youth.
The other day I was having issues trying to scp/rsync data, with no real error message to try and debug things. Turns out that any output produced by your...