Eric Goodwin

Firefox Rails Search Plugin
06/03/24

I’ve been spending quite a bit of time on Nabble.com lately search the rails mailing list archive. To make my life a bit easier I created a search engine plugin for firefox. Here it is:

Install Firefox ‘Rails Mailing List’ Search Plugin

Another nice quick way to search through the archive is to add a quick search to your bookmarks. Here is the location you’ll want to use:

http://www.nabble.com/forum/Search.jtp?forum=13830&local=y&query=%s

Happy Searching!

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Getting Real
06/03/05

I just picked up 37Signal’s latest work, their new ebook Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier way to build a succesful web application. I haven’t had any time yet to dive into it but when I do, I’ll make sure to post a review. I’m a bit wary of ebooks. I much rather have a printed book, but since 37Signals is only releasing this one as an ebook, I don’t have much of a choice.

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Backing up your Subversion repository
06/03/05

I’ve been moving some of my repositories around lately. I had a few on textdrive and a couple on dreamhost and I wanted to switch them all over to my new server. To do this I would first dump my repository to a file. This is done with the following command.

svnadmin dump /path/to/reponame > /home/ftp/reponame.dump

After doing that, I ftp’d in and grabbed the dump file and upload it onto my other server. Once that was done I created a new repository and then loaded the dump file into it.

svnadmin create reponame
svnadmin load reponame < reponame.dump

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EdgeRails Documentation
06/03/01

If you’re running edgerails and need some good up to date info, check out RailsManual. You can search the edgerails api or go through it by class, method, or file.

Update: Planet Argon has the edge api online as well now. It can be found here.

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Giving up Edge Rails
06/02/28

As much as I hate to do it right now with Rails 1.1 just around the corner I need to break away from edge rails and lock off on a specific revision. Luckily this is quite easy. Here’s how …

Navigate to your app root folder and then:

C:\projects\app1>svn propedit svn:externals vendor

If you haven’t set up an editor for subversion first you might get an error. If this happens you’ll have to set the editor.

C:\projects\app1>set SVN_EDITOR="C:\windows\notepad.exe" 

Ok … so once that is taken care of notepad should popup with at least one line of code in it.

rails http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/trunk/

Change that to:

rails -r 3669 http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/trunk/

Where 3669 would be the revision number that you want to lock your rails app down to. Save the file, commit it and then do an update and you’re good to go.

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