The Reverend

I heart Passenger

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:41:38 -0700

Alright, I know I’m definitely late to the party here, but I’ve been busy with work so that’s my excuse for just now giving Passenger/mod_rails a shot.

And let me tell you: I LOVE THIS STUFF! I have the smallest slice money can buy on Slicehost (256 MB) and as of last night, I have not one, but two small sites running on one slice. Both on Passenger, and both are lightning fast. I didn’t do any real benchmark testing, but I can tell just by clicking around on the sites, they’re probably twice as fast now that they’re on one Slice running on Passenger as they were on two SEPARATE slices on Mongrel/Nginx.

Don’t get me wrong… Mongrel/Nginx definitely saved all of our asses back when it came out. I’ll never forget how happy I was to get away from Lighttpd, but this… well, this is awesome!

Anyway… if you haven’t given Passenger a shot yet then I’d say it’s definitely time. It’ll work on a shared host (meaning you won’t have to cringe at the thought of telling a client they’ll be shelling out $40-$50 a month for a VPS) and it along with Capistrano, your deployment time goes way down.

Couldn’t be happier… Honestly. Start using it now. Find out how here: http://peepcode.com/products/phusion-passenger

This looks cool...

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:46:54 -0700

This looks cool...

Amazon.com is down. At this point the site’s been down for...

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:05:11 -0700

Amazon.com is down. At this point the site’s been down for well over an hour and maybe even longer. Someone will never work in this town again…

Rails, Routes, REST and a resource with a singular name.

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:52:00 -0700

So Brad, Mark, and I are sitting at work watching the new Rails Routes Peepcode and someone asked “What happens if you do ‘map.resources :page’ vs. ‘map.resources :pages’”. Be default, we thought Rails would crap out when you did that because page_path would expect an :id, and how would you get the collection (eg. pages_path wouldn’t exist).

After putting map.resources :page into routes.rb and running rake routes, we quickly learned that this has been accounted for with object_index_path… See below:

And further proven in console:

I’m not really sure when this change was implemented, or if it was maybe there all along, but that’s an interesting little tidbit. If you ever need a resource to be name singularly, you’re fine, just use page_index_path for the collection, and then page_path(:id) for the member.

Not bad, Rails Team.

P.S. Brad is the one that caught this in the output from rake routes. Good eye, man!

Rails 2.1 Action Caching

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:53:18 -0700

Ok, as a little disclaimer, I haven’t used a *ton* of action caching, so this may be old news to everyone out there, but just in case there’s someone out there wondering about where the cached fragments go, here’s what I dug out of the Rails source earlier today:

Configuration examples (MemoryStore is the default):

ActionController::Base.cache_store = :memory_store

ActionController::Base.cache_store = :file_store, "/path/to/cache/directory"

ActionController::Base.cache_store = :drb_store, "druby://localhost:9192"

ActionController::Base.cache_store = :mem_cache_store, "localhost"

ActionController::Base.cache_store = MyOwnStore.new("parameter")

I found that little helpful bit of info here: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/8393

Rails 2.1 is here (as of last Saturday @ RailsConf).

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:28:00 -0700

Rails 2.1 is here (as of last Saturday @ RailsConf).

Rails 2.1 Release Candidate is out

Mon, 12 May 2008 18:58:24 -0700

For those of you who follow DHH on Twitter it will come as no surprise that the Rails 2.1 Release Candidate is out.

For those of you who don’t… the Rails 2.1 Release Candidate is out.

Get it by running this command:

sudo gem install rails --source http://gems.rubyonrails.com/

Check to see if it worked by running:

rails -v

And you should see:

Rails 2.0.991

Migrate your SVN repository to GIT

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:56:47 -0700

So I got bit by the git bug. Hmm… nice sentence. Anyway… last night I was at the OC Ruby Group and Rob Olson made an excellent presentation on git. And seeing as how Rails, Merb, RSpec and numerous other projects that affect me have moved to GitHub, I figured I may as well learn it. So, my first step was to migrate a personal project I’ve been working on from Subversion over to Git. Thanks to google, and Jon Maddox it couldn’t have been easier.

Go see for yourself: http://www.simplisticcomplexity.com/2008/03/05/cleanly-migrate-your-subversion-repository-to-a-git-repository/.

i feel like this.

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:53:34 -0700

i feel like this.

The coolest man in the world.

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:37:31 -0700

The coolest man in the world.

Windows Vista source code?

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:40:00 -0700

Windows Vista source code?

You called render with invalid options : Edge Rails and RSpec

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:15:00 -0700

If you’re developing in edge rails and get an error like this when running controller specs:

You called render with invalid options : { :some_action }, nil

You’re probably not doing anything wrong. It took me some googling to figure that out, but here’s what I turned up: http://rspec.lighthouseapp.com/projects/5645/tickets/294-controller-examples-fail-when-calling-render

The way to remedy is simple enough and can be found here: http://rspec.rubyforge.org/documentation/rails/install.html

Or you can take my word for it and run these two pretty little lines:

ruby script/plugin install -x svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rspec/trunk/rspec --force
ruby script/plugin install -x svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rspec/trunk/rspec_on_rails --force

I’m not sure if it was necessary or not, but I re-ran this command after the above two lines:

ruby script/generate rspec

Everything works like a charm now.

Wanna see my newest tattoo?

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:32:55 -0700

Here’s some pictures: http://flickr.com/photos/joshnabbott/sets/72157604352688589/

I also posted some other goodies on there… browse around.

Yikes.

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:28:57 -0700

Yikes.

he he. So hell does exist, and it can freeze over.

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:47:47 -0800

he he. So hell does exist, and it can freeze over.

Time Changes Things...

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:49:42 -0800

It’s finding ways to make time pass that’s not easy

Of course I spend so much of my time just making time pass

That by the time i’m ok

There may not be much of it left

This guy is awesome

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:03:43 -0800

This guy is awesome

FYI Dreamhost + Rails

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:25:00 -0800

Dreamhost has upgraded to Rails version 2.0.2.

If your app (or rails site) has broken recently, that’s might be why. Check to make sure you don’t have any

@params[:bloody_hell]

in your controllers (which is old stuff, too.)

If you’re having any other weird issues, drop me a line at joshnabbottATmacDOTcom and I may be able to shed some light on the problems.

Lots of love, Josh

What a surprise.

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:23:03 -0800

What a surprise.

Why I don't heart IE

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:12:04 -0800

It’s simple. Because IE doesn’t do anything the same as other browsers.

Microsoft Team:

Please fix.