NWRUG Google Group

How are people serving static files in their Rails apps?

2009-12-07T10:43:12Z

I have some static JSON files that I want to get served up in a hurry.
Eventually, I'll have them be generated & cache them once a day, but I need
to get the service up there in a hurry, so am going to just create the files
& have them served up.
Should I call something like:
render( :file => "/path/to/file.json", :layout => false, :status => :ok )

spree+protx

2009-12-01T09:53:02Z

Hi there,

I'm in the process of setting up a protx account for my spree shopping cart,
I want to use my protx test server first, I tried use the following in spree
configuration gateway page:
sub-account: my_test_user
user: vendor_name
pass: password for my_test_user

and i uncomment

ActiveMerchant::Billing::Base. gateway_mode = :test

10th Dec meeting

2009-12-02T11:30:34Z

The sneaky buggers at Geekup have gone and organised their Christmas do on the 10th, the same evening as this months NWRUG. There's some cross-over between NWRUG and Geekup groups so before I go ahead and organise the NWRUG meeting for the 10th clashing with the Geekup meeting I wanted to get a feel for the number of people who actually care :)

Graphic/Web Artists

2009-12-01T17:50:59Z

Hi guys

Im looking at some new projects which may entail a lot of work and more importantly need to look amazing.

Can you recommend any amazing front end guys you've worked with?

Thanxs, Alex

Speccing views & controllers in Sinatra

2009-12-01T14:59:57Z

Hi -- I know there's a couple of Sinatra devs around on the list, so thought
I'd ask -- how do you spec your views & controller actions?
There are examples all over the place for speccing the whole stack with
RSpec, but I'm already doing that with cucumber, and want to spec out the
parts with stubbed & mocked values, like I do in Rails.

Re: [GeekUp] Fly The Coop has a new home

2009-11-26T11:17:53Z

This is a reply to geekup, copied to nwrug-members where it may be more relevant.

Hi Paul

I'm really interested in this idea. Just experiencing the process would be exciting.

The Coding Kwoon session I did at NWRUG got lot of people talking about doing a longer session, perhaps at a BarCamp. Would the FTC venue be suitable for a day/afternoon-long Coding Kwoon? Needs a projector and a load of chairs.

Tokyo Cabinet/Table

2009-11-21T22:39:43Z

Well, im impressed.

I have 10 large datafile ( plus 4gb of data each) that I play about with, its the grace note list of artists, releases etc..

My old simple script was ruby, active record and mysql, to import 8 and a half million rows.

This used to take around 24 minutes, and eat my processor and ram for fun.

Linkparser

2009-11-21T02:39:52Z

Hi all,

I've been fiddling around with a linguistics
library<[link]>for ruby that
has a link parser module which wraps around the link-grammar
from abiword and I'm having some trouble getting things to work together.

Has anybody ever used this ?

Thanks,

NWRUG signup reminder (for tomorrow)

2009-11-18T20:28:10Z

Hi all

If you're coming to the NWRUG event tomorrow, please sign up on the
event page. The BBC like to know who is coming in advance of the
event. It means they can prepare passes beforehand instead of as
people turn up.

[link]

Will says people often forget to sign up, so I thought I'd send out

Coding Kwoon hardware

2009-11-18T18:04:52Z

Hi all

Anyone got a spare Apple keyboard and a mouse they can bring to NWRUG? It will be better if we have two of each on the night, so my MacBook can go in the middle. All my keyboards have Dvorak stickers on them.

I can bring my mice with me, as I've got two identical ones, but would save lugging them around if someone from Manchester has a pair. (Having different mice is a pain for pairing, as the tracking speed will be different.)

Sinatra, accessing the environment variable & setting up databases

2009-11-17T22:41:01Z

Hi -- any of the Sinatra buffs out there able to help me with a couple of
issues?
I'm wanting to use Datamapper for my models, and *think* I'm okay with that,
but I want to be able to set them up for testing, development, and
production.
How do I access the environment variable? I mean to set and to get at any

Sinatra and SSL Certificates

2009-11-16T13:39:12Z

Hi -- has anyone used Sinatra with SSL?
If so, have they any advice to offer, or any tuts & resources they could
point me to that would explain to a simple man how it's done?
Cheers,
Doug.

DailyJS - a new javascript blog

2009-11-14T14:49:58Z

This is not strictly Ruby-related, but many of us Ruby hackers are web-
developers in general, so I thought this might be of interest...

Although still chiefly a Ruby developer, I've had much more to do with
Javascript recently but I've had trouble finding many technically-
focused Javascript blogs or resources on the web.

OpenCoffee Manchester

2009-11-13T10:08:51Z

Hi Guys,

OpenCoffee Manchester
24th November
Urbis (next to Victoria Station)

Free wifi - feel free to bring an app to demo

[link]

See you there.

Tim

Google Wave invites

2009-11-12T22:00:07Z

Trying to get rid of the feckin things. Anyone want one? Let me know
if you do...
Ashley