Nobody Listens Anyway

I can’t take credit for any of these instructions. Dave South from the Logan Ruby group sent these out in an email. I am posting them so that I can find them later on.
Install ZenTest:
sudo gem install ZenTest
Then install RedGreen
sudo gem install redgreen
Go to your rails project directory and create a file called: [...]

So if you are ever working oh so hard on a ruby on rails application and all of a sudden your application stops working and you have no idea why because the error looks like this:

/!\ FAILSAFE /!\ Mon Nov 12 17:27:15 -0700 2007
Status: 500 Internal Server Error
wrong number of [...]

It really is true. My wife IS better than your wife. Want proof? Here it is:

58″ of pure Panasonic Plasma goodness and she wanted it as much as I did. Ya, my wife is better than yours.
(I’ll post some install info later on.)

It is top secret, but I am working on another Facebook application. This time I am using Ruby On Rails since I don’t have to deal with legacy issues. I’ll be interested to see if there is a large performance difference. I’ll post a link when the application is ready. This [...]

About a year ago my account’s office was broken into. The only thing the thieves took were the hard drives from the computers. That is scary for someone like me because the message is clear. These guys are smart enough to know that the value of all the personal information stored on [...]

I love NPR. I was listening to it last night on the way home and Will Bowen of Christ Church Unity was on talking about his no complaint for 21 days program and the purple bracelets he passes out to help people to remember not to complain. This morning on my way in [...]

I grew up in southeast Idaho which is in close proximity to Jackson Hole, Wy and Grand Teton National Park. When I was a kid (I am going bald and my back is causing me problems so I get to say that now), we would visit “the park” 5 or more times a year. [...]

Just as I finish my Facebook app here comes OpenSocial which is supposed to be an API that works with LinkedIn, Orkut, other Google services and the big recent addition, MySpace. I might just explode into a million pieces. I love that with these apps you get traffic almost as soon as you [...]

I finally worked out most of the bugs for my first Facebook Application - My House Plans which uses data from my House Plan site. What is cool is that without putting in a lot of effort people are finding and adding the application. I worked on the app yesterday and then [...]