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Nathan Humbert — Projects
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A niche social network for RC pilots. Built with Ruby on Rails 3.2 uses the asset pipeline in combination with Amazon Cloud Front to keep pages loading fast. Uses Google Maps and Aviation Digital Data Service to display easy to use weather data for different RC airfields. A ruby gem that runs tests with code coverage output and some static code analysis tools. Useful for viewing code coverage and finding code smells.
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Nathan Humbert's Blog: January 2012
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Pseudorandom thoughts, mostly on programming and web application development. Monday, January 23, 2012. Rails 3.2 development environment asset issue. I just tracked down and dealt with an issue I was having after upgrading www.checkthesock.com. If you are having similar problems make sure that you have the following line in "config/environments/development.rb". Config.assets.digest = false. Friday, January 20, 2012. Rails 3.2 on Heroku asset:precompile issue. I just upgraded www.checkthesock.com. The is...
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Nathan Humbert's Blog: March 2012
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Pseudorandom thoughts, mostly on programming and web application development. Thursday, March 15, 2012. Make scheduled jobs in heroku safer for your wallet. I recently checked my current usage on Heroku to find that I had used a much higher than expected number of dyno-hours. The project CheckTheSock.com. Is a RC aviation website that provides some weather data. The forecast data is pulled every hour via FTP by a rake task that is run with a scheduled job in Heroku. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Three comm...
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Nathan Humbert's Blog: Rails 3.2 on Heroku asset:precompile issue
http://blog.nathanhumbert.com/2012/01/rails-32-on-heroku-tip.html
Pseudorandom thoughts, mostly on programming and web application development. Friday, January 20, 2012. Rails 3.2 on Heroku asset:precompile issue. I just upgraded www.checkthesock.com. To Rails 3.2 and found that the asset precompile step of the release was not working properly. Here is the output I was getting:. Preparing app for Rails asset pipeline Running: rake assets:precompile rake aborted! Config.assets.initialize on precompile = false. Awesome, thank you! January 30, 2012 at 8:17 AM. Thanks Nath...
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Nathan Humbert's Blog: Rails A/B testing with Split on Heroku
http://blog.nathanhumbert.com/2012/02/rails-ab-testing-with-split-on-heroku.html
Pseudorandom thoughts, mostly on programming and web application development. Wednesday, February 29, 2012. Rails A/B testing with Split on Heroku. I recently decided to start doing some A/B testing on www.checkthesock.com. The last time I tried A/B testing I used Google website optimizer, it worked fairly well but I did not like how difficult it was to setup a test. This time I looked around for A/B testing tools for rails. I ended up finding split. ENV['REDISTOGO URL'] = 'redis:/ localhost:6379'. To co...
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Nathan Humbert's Blog: February 2012
http://blog.nathanhumbert.com/2012_02_01_archive.html
Pseudorandom thoughts, mostly on programming and web application development. Wednesday, February 29, 2012. Rails A/B testing with Split on Heroku. I recently decided to start doing some A/B testing on www.checkthesock.com. The last time I tried A/B testing I used Google website optimizer, it worked fairly well but I did not like how difficult it was to setup a test. This time I looked around for A/B testing tools for rails. I ended up finding split. ENV['REDISTOGO URL'] = 'redis:/ localhost:6379'. To co...
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Nathan Humbert's Blog: Make scheduled jobs in heroku safer for your wallet.
http://blog.nathanhumbert.com/2012/03/make-scheduled-jobs-in-heroku-safer-for.html
Pseudorandom thoughts, mostly on programming and web application development. Thursday, March 15, 2012. Make scheduled jobs in heroku safer for your wallet. I recently checked my current usage on Heroku to find that I had used a much higher than expected number of dyno-hours. The project CheckTheSock.com. Is a RC aviation website that provides some weather data. The forecast data is pulled every hour via FTP by a rake task that is run with a scheduled job in Heroku. Jodi W. Brown. Are you excited for thi...
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Nathan Humbert's Blog: Easy data caching in Rails 3
http://blog.nathanhumbert.com/2011/01/data-caching-in-rails-3.html
Pseudorandom thoughts, mostly on programming and web application development. Sunday, January 23, 2011. Easy data caching in Rails 3. Three common forms of caching. There are 3 types of caching that are very commonly talked about in the rails community; page caching. All of these are well documented and are great ways to cache varying amounts of content for your pages. Is that all the caching I need? Lower level data caching. Example usage and code. I used this on www.checkthesock.com. The first time it ...
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Nathan's Blog Thoughts on programming. Dec 4, 2012. I am starting to build a time management app to hopefully help myself be a little more productive. I have decided to make it open source and thuroughly document the process of building a non-trivial rails application. This post is the start of the documentation process. Oct 9, 2012. Feb 29, 2012. Rails A/B testing with Split on Heroku. I recently decided to start doing some A/B testing on www.checkthesock.com. Trying something new — Dec 4, 2012.
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