One of the most difficult tasks when putting up a new site is picking the right host. Moving hosts later on is terribly difficult so choosing the correct hosting company is as important as selecting a business partner. I’ve collected about 30 hosting companies in my delicious bookmarks. Some are specific to [...]
Elastic Cloud Computing
April 8th, 2008 4 Comments
Tags: 3tera · cloud computing · ec2 · elastra · mosso · rightscale · ruby_on_rails · scalability
rFacebook and redirect_to
October 23rd, 2007 2 Comments
I have been working with rFacebook to try to get a Facebook application up and running. Right now we are trying to integrate our conference application - 51weeks.com with Facebook so that our users can take advantage of existing social networks instead of having to create yet another network at he conference they are [...]
Tags: redirect_to · rFacebook · ruby_on_rails
Quick Note About rFacebook, Edge Rails, and Sessions.
October 19th, 2007 1 Comment
This problem may not be specific to rFacebook, but when I added acts_as_facebook_user to my user model and then made a call like:
my_user.first_name
I would get an 500 internal server error. I checked the log and saw this:
CGI::Session::CookieStore::CookieOverflow
I found that if I changed the app so that it uses db sessions everything started working.
Uncomment this [...]
Tags: acts_as_facebook_user · rFacebook · ruby_on_rails
