If you happen to come across the following deprecation warning:
DEPRECATION WARNING: Giving :session_key to SessionStore is deprecated, please use :key instead. (called from new at /Users/dshimy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p249/gems/actionpack-2.3.8/lib/action_controller/middleware_stack.rb:72)
Take a look at your config/environment.rb file for the following:
config.action_controller.session = {
:secret_key => '_sample_session',
:secret => '00000000000000000000'
}and change it to:
config.action_controller.session = {
:key => '_sample_session',
:secret => '00000000000000000000'
}
I went to download a file and saw the following estimated download times:
Although, DSL and Cable providers have been adding higher speeds to their offerings, isn’t it time to lump them together into ‘broadband.’
I recently needed to fax a document to Apple regarding the iPhone. Here is the comment I added to the fax cover page:
You requested information to be sent via an obsolete technology. Although a fax machine may look nice next to your mom’s 8-track collection, you really should consider using technologies that were developed after the mid-1970’s. Just a thought.
Erlend Simonsen put out a program called gltail that creates a graphical representation of your log files.
I saw this a long time ago, but last night I finally started playing with it. It works quite well. I needed to make a small change to support an SSH gateway which you can get here: http://github.com/dshimy/gltail. On OS X, getting started was simple:
$ git clone git://github.com/dshimy/gltail.git
$ sudo gem install ruby-opengl file-tail
If you want the dots to bump each other, you need to install the Chipmunk physics library:
$ cd vendor/Chipmunk-4.1.0/ruby
$ ruby extconf.rb
$ sudo make install
Beyond that, tweak the configuration file and enjoy.
So as I mentioned earlier, I no longer show up in Twitter results. I tried to get it fixed, but it’s not worth my time anymore. I created another Twitter account with the same username. The old account was renamed. So if you were remotely interested in the minutia of what I was doing, you will need to re-follow me.
http://twitter.com/dshimy
I am still not in the results, but I heard it might take a while for new accounts to find their way.
Update: I’ve made it to search!
Being in the Social Media Monitoring space, I often need to test certain functionality with Twitter Search. For my account, this is very difficult. For some reason, none of my tweets ever show up in Twitter Search. Have I been blacklisted? I know twitter search doesn’t access all tweets, but I figured it would have seen one of mine.
Well, I am not alone. Twitter has a help desk article on the subject here. I tried to create a ticket, but it looks like they were hiding the link. No worries, Rails apps have easy to guess URLS, http://help.twitter.com/requests/new.
Submitted a ticket, we’ll see if anything comes from it.
Just added support for pubsubhubbub with a Wordpress Plugin. Interested to see if my posts will appear in Google Reader any faster. Probably not, but it can’t get much slower. Which hubs are you using?
I came across this product on Amazon.com under their sexy costumes.
Uh, yeah!
This Thursday I’ll be at the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit in Mountain View, CA. If anyone else is planning on attending, let me know.
When running a Rails console session, a true time saver is directing the ActiveRecord logs to STDOUT instead of the log file. This is easily accomplished adding the following to your ~/.irbrc file:
if rails_env = ENV['RAILS_ENV']
# Called after the irb session is initialized and Rails has
# been loaded (props: Mike Clark).
IRB.conf[:IRB_RC] = Proc.new do
ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)
ActiveRecord::Base.instance_eval { alias :[] :find }
end
endIf someone knows the original author of these lines, let me know and I’ll give them proper attribution.
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