OK. So you have been using migrations to iteratively modify your database and populate it with information as you flesh out your application. Awesome. Now, what happens when you change the model definitions and try to rollback and then roll forward?
This is the problem I’m encountering. For example, I’ve made changes to [...]
Clients frequently like to keep applications under development behind some kind of basic authentication. Apache makes this easy, but mod_proxy_balancer complicates things slightly. While you normally put your AllowOverride, AuthType, etc. directives under the correct Directory definition, if you try doing this alone with a Rails app running on a mongrel cluster, you’ll [...]
Yeah, so not a lot of interesting thoughts coming out of my blog these days. Well, right now I’ve got four jobs going on at once, so my free time is pretty expensive lately. The most important one right now is a custom Rails application that I’ve pledged to have beta-ready in less [...]
What a wonderful day everybody had yesterday at the marriage of Jim and Megan. Yesterday at the wedding, Megan’s maid of honor spoke on how the sincerity and warmness of Jim and Megan’s relationship so infectiously spreads among their friends and even catalyzes new friendships in the wake of their love. I really [...]
Welp, I’m back from the Hoedown and it was a blast. Thanks to Jon, Jim, and Patrick for the company on the near-3 hour drive. There were some wonderful presentations, including one on MERB, tuning Ruby using C, and some reflections on the state of the Ruby community. These coming weeks I’m [...]
Welp, here’s the update on my professional life. I’m working on three contracts, so money is coming in. Hopefully, this money will make the search for a new employer less urgent and allow me to be picky. Additionally, one of these gigs is going to be a fast-paced, agilely developed Rails application for [...]
Looking back at the beginning of this week, I marvel at the relatively secure position in life I enjoyed - content but static. There wasn’t much on the horizon to indicate that I would be making any giant strides forward, but I could comfortably tread water indefinitely.
Now at the end of the week, the [...]
This blog post coming to you from the train taking Tasha and me home from New York. I finally got the unlimited data plan on my cell, so I can use the ‘net without guilt!
Anyway, I had a pretty good stay in the city overall. The only thing I’ll say bad is that [...]
All of my email addresses (jeremy@_______) have been restored. No thanks to my host or GoDaddy.
Well, I’ve finally got my first site moved to Slicehost - this one. For the first time I’m running my own server and configuring it from scratch. I’m trying to walk a middle ground between following tutorials in a rote manner and doing my own thang. I would only recommend this host [...]
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