Monthly Archives: February 2007

Flash Remoting for Django

By Alastair | February 27, 2007

It took a little while longer than Flash Remoting for Rails to come out but there’s now a Remoting implementation for Django. Not yet 1.0 but then neither is Django! (officially, it might as well be)
One of the reasons I choose Rails over Django was Remoting support, I might have to reconsider now…

Posted in Ruby on Rails | 2 Comments

Restore browser history when using AJAX

By Alastair | February 22, 2007

Yahoo explains, via Don MacAskill’s blog (my new favorite)

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How to: Ignore all files in a directory (folder) with subversion

By Alastair | February 21, 2007

The ignore command for subversion can be confusing. Ignoring certain files types is pretty easy:
$ svn propset svn:ignore “*.log” log
but ignoring folders is tricky and was giving me headaches for a while. I was using file_column (in Rails) to save uploaded photos and whenever I did a svn status I would get a list of [...]

Posted in svn | 3 Comments

MT GS RoR A-Z: The complete guide to Rails on Media Temple’s Grid Server

By Alastair | February 18, 2007

This tutorial will walk you through setting up everything you need to deploy Rails apps on Media Temple’s Grid Server. The information on each part of the setup is available elsewhere but I thought it would be helpful to have it all in one place. The tutorial will cover setting up a rails container, creating [...]

Posted in Capistrano, Media Temple, Mongrel, Ruby on Rails, svn | 85 Comments