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Brent's Tech Ramblings: Compiling Rails project for distribution in a WAR file with JRuby
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My blog for posts about random software and technical stuff, non-geeks stay away. Tuesday, January 17, 2012. Compiling Rails project for distribution in a WAR file with JRuby. After you have JRuby installed, simply install the gem warbler. You'll then get a command line tool, warble, to generate war files from your project. Simply run warble from your project's directory, and a war file will be produced. It's as easy as that! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Brent's Tech Ramblings: November 2010
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My blog for posts about random software and technical stuff, non-geeks stay away. Sunday, November 7, 2010. I've finished working on a new Ruby gem, twitterscour. Simply type "gem install twitterscour" to install it. With this gem you can search for tweets by users or by specifying a search term. You may wonder what makes this different from the other twitter gems out there? Documentation is available at http:/ coordinatecommons.com/twitterscour/. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Brent's Tech Ramblings: December 2010
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My blog for posts about random software and technical stuff, non-geeks stay away. Sunday, December 12, 2010. Setting up a VPN connection to a Linux Internet server. First, this has absolutely nothing to do with Ruby or Rails, but I wanted to post this since I couldn't find much good info anywhere. Setting up OpenVPN Server. Run "sudo apt-get install openvpn" to install the OpenVPN server. Now you'll need to generate certificates and keys. Some example scripts are provided to make this easy. Run "/pkitool...
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Brent's Tech Ramblings: jQuery .on performance
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My blog for posts about random software and technical stuff, non-geeks stay away. Thursday, March 29, 2012. JQuery .on performance. JQuery's .on() function. On() simply grabs the event when it happens at the higher level that you specify (usually document or a container div), checks if the element that caused the event matches any of the selectors for any added .on() calls, and if so calls your handler. I wrote a simple test page that dynamically generates lots of clickable elements. See this page at...
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Brent's Tech Ramblings: June 2011
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My blog for posts about random software and technical stuff, non-geeks stay away. Saturday, June 11, 2011. HTTP Long Polling (aka Comet) with Nginx. Say you need to have live updates on your web site, like to receive chat messages. In this article, I will explain how to use the HTTP push module for the Nginx web server for this. There are several other ways to do this, but most of them have serious drawbacks. Long Poll (aka Comet) As A Controller Action. Nginx Push Module for Long Polling. While research...
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Brent's Tech Ramblings: December 2011
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My blog for posts about random software and technical stuff, non-geeks stay away. Saturday, December 31, 2011. Hiring remote workers versus local. DHH recently posted a blog entry Stop whining and start hiring remote workers. Links to this post. Thursday, December 22, 2011. Fixing FBML Facebook apps that use Facebooker. In early/mid November they switched to using a single parameter, signed request. This contains all of the info encoded as JSON, along with a validation signature. They no longer u...Unfor...
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Brent's Tech Ramblings: April 2012
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My blog for posts about random software and technical stuff, non-geeks stay away. Sunday, April 22, 2012. My Trips Facebook app will not work after June 1. Starting on June 1, 2012, the My Trips. I'd like to thank everyone for using My Trips over the years. If you know of any Facebook apps that provide similar functionality, please post a comment here! Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). My Trips Facebook app will not work after June 1. Simple template. Template images by gaffera.
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Brent's Tech Ramblings: October 2011
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My blog for posts about random software and technical stuff, non-geeks stay away. Sunday, October 23, 2011. Starting a Lift project with SBT and IntelliJ. Getting up and running with Scala and Lift requires a lot of tools, especially if you want to develop from an IDE. Coming from a Ruby on Rails and PHP background, a lot of this was new to me, and the books typically assume you've done a lot of Java development and are used to dealing with build tools, compiling, dependencies, etc. Book which I would hi...
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Brent's Tech Ramblings: Rails 3.1 "Could not find a JavaScript runtime" error
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My blog for posts about random software and technical stuff, non-geeks stay away. Wednesday, January 4, 2012. Rails 3.1 "Could not find a JavaScript runtime" error. For a list. If you're running in Mac or Windows, you're good, there are system libraries to do it. But if you're in Linux, unless you have node.js installed, it won't work. So to get things to work you'll need to add one of the gems listed on the execjs page. If you're running the MRI Ruby, just add:. January 5, 2012 at 12:24 AM. I have made ...
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