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I have been asked more and more these days, “How do I host a Git repository?” Usually it is assumed that some access control beyond simply read-only is involved (some users have commit rights). With access control comes issues of security, and that’s a wh
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Git differs from CVS in that every working tree contains a repository with a full copy of the project history, and no repository is inherently more important than any other.
Archive for April, 2008
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When looking at my own Rails code and that of the community as a whole, I often see places where certain Rails techniques could have been used, but weren’t.
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The MountainWest RubyConf took place at Salt Lake City on March the 28 and 29. Thanks to Confreaks and various sponsors, all 15 talks are already available for download on the Confreak website (the website also allows to watch them online using Flash).
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Scrum creator Jeff Sutherland guesses there are 120,000 Scrum teams holding standup meetings on any given working day. But how many are really doing Scrum?
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This guide aims to be a simple, logical tutorial showing how to develop a simple Rails messaging system with all of the trimmings with Ruby on Rails (v2.0.2). This tutorial is intended for beginner to intermediate Rails users.
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This tutorial will give you a complete understanding on Ruby on Rails.
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This works with Rails 2.0.2, and requires no special modification to controller code.
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Welcome to the community-driven Rails documentation!
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I recently moved all of my sites from a cheap shared host to a shiny new VPS at SliceHost, and couldn’t be happier.
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Open your nginx configuration file:
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Nginx is my favorite webserver as you astute reader all probably know. It’s very fast, light and rock solid in production. My only complaint was that the proxy modue was round robin only.
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RubyWorks production stack is a collection of open-source software required to host a RubyOnRails application on Linux servers.
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Eventually the website expunged Burlison’s details properly, but he had posed the highly pertinent question: if Facebook has the ability to delete accounts so easily, why doesn’t it make it available to users?
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links for 2008-04-12
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Below you will find details of the latest information regarding your holiday. Click on the “More Info” to enquire further about the holiday you have an interest in. Please make sure to read the Terms & Conditions.
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When your Ruby On Rails Website gets famous you’re going to wish you implemented proper caching. Are you worried? Maybe just a little?
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This article is the second part of my series about Ruby on Rails Caching. If you have not yet read Part 1 you may be left clueless, so please do so.
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The Rails Way is all about teaching “best practices” in Rails application design. It is run by Jamis Buck and Michael Koziarski, both of whom are members of the Rails core team and have had extensive experience with both designing and building web applica
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Streamlined is a framework on top of Rails that allows you to quickly generate interfaces for your ActiveRecord models. It started as a way to generate Administrative backends, but has become more general purpose over time.
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In this article, authors Elliot Smith and Rob Nichols explain the setup of a new Rails application and how to integrate it with other data sources. Specifically, this article focuses on turning the abstract data structure for Intranet into a Rails applica
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In the previous article, we covered setting up a new Rails application and connecting it to a database. In this article, we take this a little further and deal with ActiveRecord, Migrations, Models, the Scaffold, and demonstrate how to complete the Databa
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The project I’m working on will be using quite a few currency values. Because the framework maps decimal columns to (imprecise) floats, the Rails book recommends storing money as integers.
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This is the first part of a multi-part tutorial. It will cover enough to get a scaffolded Rails application up and running under Rails 2.0.
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MVC is not a new syntax construct like an if statement or a data type like an array or int but more a way of looking at how to structure programs and divide the parts up in a logical and useful way.
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Goldberg is a holistic solution with security, site navigation and content management all designed to work together.
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Mr Berlusconi was quoted as saying that when he looked round parliament, he found that female politicians from the right were “more beautiful”.
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Compression is a simple, effective way to save bandwidth and speed up your site. I hesitated when recommending gzip compression when speeding up your javascript because of problems in older browsers.
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The mod_deflate module provides the DEFLATE output filter that allows output from your server to be compressed before being sent to the client over the network.
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YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.
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At Carbon Five, we’ve been working REST-ful practices into our web applications for some time now. Providing simple URLs for application entities is a key principal of this style, but parsing parameters out of the request path has been klunky in Spring MV
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links for 2008-04-10
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A confidential draft agreement covering the future of US forces in Iraq, passed to the Guardian, shows that provision is being made for an open-ended military presence in the country.
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The next UN investigator into Israeli conduct in the occupied territories has stood by comments comparing Israeli actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis.
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links for 2008-04-03
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The Iraqi military’s offensive in Basra was supposed to demonstrate the power of the central government in Baghdad. Instead it has proven the continuing relevance of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
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Driven by a painful mix of layoffs and rising food and fuel prices, the number of Americans receiving food stamps is projected to reach 28 million in the coming year, the highest level since the aid program began in the 1960s.
