April 22, 2010

Installing sphinx on mac osx with mysql installed through macports

wget http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz
cd  sphinx-0.9.8.1/
./configure --with-mysql-libs=/opt/local/lib/mysql5/mysql/
--with-mysql-includes=/opt/local/include/mysql5/mysql/
make
sudo make install

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September 9, 2009

Duplicate Active Record with has_many relationships

old_model.find(old_model_id)
new_model = MyModel.new(old_model.attributes)
new_model.some_collection << old_model.some_collection.collect{|x| x.clone}
new_model.save

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August 27, 2009
Rails DB Sharding & Replication - Data Fabric

Data Fabric has been great so far with our new project requiring horizontal partitioning.

We created this rakefile modification to help with db:migrate / db:rollback:  http://gist.github.com/176353

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February 21, 2009
Flash, Rails 2.3, Rack, and SWFUpload

This article was a tremendous help in getting swfupload to work correctly with rails 2.3 and acts_as_authenticated.

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February 9, 2009
http://blog.programmableweb.com/2009/02/09/yahoos-yql-adds-support-for-microformats/

Good to see microformats getting more visibility.

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June 18, 2008

T-SQL Update or Insert Logic

Greg’s Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day: T-SQL Update or Insert Logic -

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February 1, 2008

Looks like I might have to pick up the book: The Rails Way

http://www.railsjitsu.com/the-rails-way-meet-your-new-bible

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January 23, 2008

Burning .dmg to disk - not enough space

I had a problem where i had a 580mb dmg and wanted to burn to 700mb CDR… For some reason, Disk Utility prevented me from burning saying that the disk size wasn’t big enough. I ran the following command on a folder with the .dmg file and it converted it to an .iso. Disk Utility then allowed me to burn to the same CD:

hdiutil makehybrid -o isofilename folderwithdmg

This should create isofilename.iso which you should be able to burn with disk utility.

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January 16, 2008
Sun To Acquire MySQL

Sun, please don’t screw this up…

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January 10, 2008
Pagination and Rails 2.0

Since pagination has been removed from the rails 2.0 core framework, will_pagination plugin looks like a great alternative: 

- http://errtheblog.com/posts/69-paginatin-christmas

- http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/will_paginate

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