I'm not sure on corporates using it but as the others have mentioned
there is a
decent-ish community over here. As much as it's a popularity contest,
as well as
those listed here (David, Matt, Myles, Gary and I) there are also a
few more listed
on Working with Rails -
http://workingwithrails.com/h
Hi all,
I'm experimenting with the Session class
(http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/session/) to make some SSH calls from
a RoR app. It's working fine only it leaves leftover threads (actually,
bash processes) around.
When I stop the web server (Mongrel) it says "Reaping threads
for slow wor
Hey Sydney Siders,
I really enjoyed tonight's meetup, thanks everyone for presenting,
participating, and heckling. Was very much fun indeed.
Here's the slides from my talk on open-uri and hpricot
http://www.slideshare.net/ben.askins/just-dont-moan-about-it-presentation
;)
There are quite possibl
On 20/11/2008, at 12:41 AM, Ben Askins wrote:
> I really enjoyed tonight's meetup, thanks everyone for presenting,
> participating, and heckling. Was very much fun indeed.
>
> Here's the slides from my talk on open-uri and hpricot
> http://www.slideshare.net/ben.askins/just-dont-moan-about-it-pre
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Andrew Foster <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm experimenting with the Session class
> (http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/session/) to make some SSH calls from
> a RoR app. It's working fine only it leaves leftover threads (actually,
> bash processes) around.
> Doe
Hi Rubyists,
Time for the next Melbourne Silicon Beach afterwork drinks again. The
Carlton Hotel 193 Bourke St, Melbourne.
Its a small part of the attempt to bring the Australian web, tech, new
media, and startup community together.
The last one went well and we need your help to keep the mome
I haz video, but the audio from last night was really ordinary :(
I'll see if I can clean it up.
J
On 20/11/2008, at 12:50 AM, Tim Lucas wrote:
>
> On 20/11/2008, at 12:41 AM, Ben Askins wrote:
>
>> I really enjoyed tonight's meetup, thanks everyone for presenting,
>> participating, and heckli
I'd like to echo that. Last night's meetup was the best yet.
The strict 5min lightning format worked *really* well and we managed
to fit 10+ awesome talks in.
Thanks to all the presenters and organisers!
Cheers,
Josh
On 20/11/2008, at 12:41 AM, Ben Askins wrote:
>
> Hey Sydney Siders,
>
>
Hey Guys,
great meetup last night. There were some awesome presentations including
commodore 64 background slides and pamela anderson ascii art!
Anyhoo, im gonna push my javascript test coverage tool up to github but
haven't picked a name yet. It's currently called blanket, there have been
suges
>
> I'd like to echo that. Last night's meetup was the best yet.
>
It was definitely up there, that's for sure.
So, I reckon there is a happy median for these talks, ones that drag on for
ever tend to put the room to sleep and these short sharp ones were tops but
I felt on a few there was a coupl
Hi all,
For the benefit of those organising future Railscamps, last night at
the Sydney meetup I sought answers to a couple of questions about
Railscamp 4. Here's what I was able to record as the rowdy audience
threw responses at me:
WHAT WENT WELL?
* radar!!!
* venue was awesome
* cater
On 19/11/2008, at 9:40 PM, Andrew Foster wrote:
> Does anyone know how I can clean these up as I go?
Session#execute should be reaping its own threads (if it's not, that's
a bug). If Session is left doing its thing for too long (greater than
60 seconds, I believe), it will be holding up the w
While we're on the topic of code coverage...to whoever I was talking
to about rcov, my definitions of C0/C1/C2 were incorrect, so if you'd
like to read up on exactly what they mean I'd suggest you check out
Mauricio Fernandez's description [1].
Cheers,
--
Nathan de Vries
[1] http://eigenc
I don't recall seeing Rails/Mongrel making decisions towards how long
a thread should last. So I'd say the best way out of making sure you
wrap in a terminator/timeout block any operation that *can* end up
blocking forever.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Nathan de Vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr
Hi all,
I'm the guy who gave the demo of simple Comet last night.
A bloke named Adam asked if the code was available, so i've put it on
my blog if he or anyone else is still interested.
http://splinter.com.au/blog/?p=43
Cheers
On Nov 19, 2:54 pm, chris h <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Great, thank
On 20/11/2008, at 10:25 AM, Julio Cesar Ody wrote:
> I don't recall seeing Rails/Mongrel making decisions towards how
> long a thread should last.
You might want to take a look at Mongrel#initialize then. In
particular, the default timeout value of 60 seconds. When Mongrel
receives a TERM s
>> I don't recall seeing Rails/Mongrel making decisions towards how
>> long a thread should last.
... as in killing my requests that go over 60 seconds, or for that
matter, any number of seconds. My understanding from the original
question was that there were hanging processes sitting there becau
> * better gitjour
I'm working on it. Should have some goodies up on github as soon as catching
up on work and life allows me to surface. Keep on eye of
http://github.com/lachlanhardy/gitjour for the funk. (and, preferably, fix
my nooby Ruby)
> * 70 people too many
I completely disagree. 70
Hi guys,
There's a couple of us a Colleagues ( www.colleagues-info.com ) doing
virtually all our corporate web work on Rails. We are working on our
core digital pen technology as well as a couple of big web sites in
Rails. We still use J2EE but realistically we could probably avoid
even that by u
I found the movies a bit distracting - at least with Urban Terror you can
choose whether to participate in it or not.
With regards to the wiki, one problem with the rails-based wiki is that I
couldn't see any way to upload images, and it lacks preview functionality.
We shouldn't reject mediawiki j
> * backup guitar hero
>
>
Also: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=NlMYWuGUZlM
--~--~-~--~~~---~--~~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby
or Rails Oceania" group.
To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups
On 20/11/2008, at 10:44 AM, Andrew Grimm wrote:
> I was able to see from gitorious what projects there were, but there
> wasn't any ability to say "My project has passed 1.0, download it
> now!"
did you jump on twitter? That I think should be where everyone
announces their stuff, and then
Also next time we shouldn't have annoying bots retweeting everything
scrambled. It was so annoying I stopped using twitter. The first day
or two it was really helpful and fun to see what people were doing,
but then it just became noise. Otherwise I agree with everything
Lachlan said... felt more l
Yo yo.
Bigs up all the SA peeps which made it happen, I had an awesome time.
I've been talking about the number of people and I don't think that it
was necessarily too many just that I have too many friends there now
to collaborate and even get to have beers with them all, and also you
got
For the twitter (or twetter) there wasn't an easy way for Linux'ers to
jump on and post their messages, or was there? I couldn't see one on
the site and the only way that seemed to be possible was to download
the twitteriffic client for Mac.
Lightning talks sound like a superb idea. Get to
Donated.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Ryan Bigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> For the twitter (or twetter) there wasn't an easy way for Linux'ers to
> jump on and post their messages, or was there? I couldn't see one on
> the site and the only way that seemed to be possible was to download
I guess I should make it clear that just because I don't think that 70 is
too many, it doesn't mean that 150 would be cool. I definitely think we're
reaching the upper bounds.
Also, Lachie's points are 100%. If I'd thought of anything in my rant at the
time, I hope I would have done it. But hindsi
Don't want to hijack the thread - but what do people use for testing
javascript these days?
I got a little sick of jsunit with the test frame interface; so I
ripped out the assertion code and put it into something simpler.
--
Daniel Bush
On Nov 20, 9:22 am, "Dave Newman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot
http://github.com/nathansobo/screw-unit/tree/master
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Don't want to hijack the thread - but what do people use for testing
> javascript these days?
> I got a little sick of jsunit with the test frame interface; so I
> ripped out
On 20/11/2008, at 12:04 PM, Tim Lucas wrote:
> Some more tools to help a room full of hackage would always be useful—
> gitorious works but is a bit clunky, the web-based gitjour will be
> great for discovery of projects etc and I'm sure there's a bunch of
> other stuff we could all pitch in and b
Hey, the web gitjour stuff is up on github:
http://github.com/DylanFM/sup-gitjour/tree/master
2008/11/20 Nathan de Vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> On 20/11/2008, at 12:04 PM, Tim Lucas wrote:
> > Some more tools to help a room full of hackage would always be useful—
> > gitorious works but is a bi
:lachie
http://smartbomb.com.au
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lachie/
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Nathan de Vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 20/11/2008, at 12:04 PM, Tim Lucas wrote:
>> Some more tools to help a room full of hackage would always be useful—
>> gitorious works but is a
On Nov 20, 1:51 pm, "Julio Cesar Ody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://github.com/nathansobo/screw-unit/tree/master
>
Looks interesting. Thanks.
Dave, sorry - Should have changed the subject line.
--
Daniel Bush
--~--~-~--~~~---~--~~
You received this messa
I noticed that this RailsCamp had a lot more Linux users than the last one
so getting these things working well across Mac and Linux would be awesome!
Cheers,
Anthony Richardson
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Nathan de Vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Also, someone mentioned that using Gi
A bunch of Linux guys had it working. And a bunch didn't. Difficult to say
why. It only took Linc and I 10 minutes to get gitjour running on the server
(for DylanFM's awesome supgitjour) but Andrew and Mick spent days on theirs
and never got it going :(
--~--~-~--~~~---
Yeah,
I definitely got the most out of the short talks this time around. But
I agree that dedicated question time is good. I can't think of one
talk last night where questions wouldn't have been necessary. (in fact
for the comet demo in particular I was a bit miffed that there wasn't
time
I like screw-unit, but it doesn't run in ie, which is an unfortunate
requirement for me.
We're using qunit which works pretty well.
~Dave
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Nov 20, 1:51 pm, "Julio Cesar Ody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > http://github
I'm thinking about jLove : )
~Dave
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Josh Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dave,
>
> Good chatting with you last night.
>
> Blanket is best name I can think of by far. Better than jcov/jscov which
> came to mind.
>
> Cheers,
> Josh
>
>
>
> On 20/11/2008, at 9:22
I think there should be more c# programming
~Dave
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Lachlan Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> A bunch of Linux guys had it working. And a bunch didn't. Difficult to say
> why. It only took Linc and I 10 minutes to get gitjour running on the server
> (for DylanFM's
I like kitty litter lol. jDoona/joona doesn't translate outside of
australia as the rest of the world calls them "comforters"
Kitty Litter rocks, has LOL potential and comes with an awesome tag line.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Dave Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm thinking about jLo
> I think there should be more c# programming
I don't know whether to cry or laugh at that...
--~--~-~--~~~---~--~~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby
or Rails Oceania" group.
To post to this group, send email to rails
On 20/11/2008, at 3:08 PM, Adam Salter wrote:
> Yeah,
> I definitely got the most out of the short talks this time around. But
> I agree that dedicated question time is good. I can't think of one
> talk last night where questions wouldn't have been necessary. (in fact
> for the comet demo in part
Let's throw in some .NET and PHP too.
--~--~-~--~~~---~--~~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby
or Rails Oceania" group.
To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group
Works for me. Maybe less talks (5-8) and 20 mins for questions...
On 20/11/2008, at 3:40 PM, Tim Lucas wrote:
>
> On 20/11/2008, at 3:08 PM, Adam Salter wrote:
>
>> Yeah,
>> I definitely got the most out of the short talks this time around.
>> But
>> I agree that dedicated question time is goo
Aww now cmon guys, let's not be selective. Let's throw in some COBOL!!
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Ryan Bigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Let's throw in some .NET and PHP too.
>
> >
>
--~--~-~--~~~---~--~~
You received this message because you are subsc
Ummm.
Can we leave the PHP out?
... and I would love to hear more about Flex/actionscript on the
frontend.
On 20/11/2008, at 3:56 PM, Ryan Bigg wrote:
>
>
> Let's throw in some .NET and PHP too.
>
> >
--~--~-~--~~~---~--~~
You received this message because yo
Oh I know! CakePHP! Impostors are so much better than the Real Thing.
-
Ryan Bigg
Freelancer
http://frozenplague.net
On 20/11/2008, at 3:28 PM, Adam Salter wrote:
>
> Ummm.
> Can we leave the PHP out?
>
> ... and I would love to hear more about Flex/actionscript on the
> frontend.
>
>
We shouldn't be too harsh on PHP guys, quite a few of us had PHP as a
stepping stone ;)
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Ryan Bigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Oh I know! CakePHP! Impostors are so much better than the Real Thing.
> -
> Ryan Bigg
> Freelancer
> http://frozenplague.net
>
>
>
Myself included. We should be harsh on PHP letting me easily write
spaghetti code
On 20/11/2008, at 3:14 PM, Torm3nt wrote:
> We shouldn't be too harsh on PHP guys, quite a few of us had PHP as
> a stepping stone ;)
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Ryan Bigg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote
Yes, let's blame everything else for our own inadequacies in development =P
Let's also blame the government for letting us getting too drunked and place
higher taxes on our alcohol, 'cos we all know that will work! =D
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Alan Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My
On 20/11/2008, at 3:58 PM, Adam Salter wrote:
> ... and I would love to hear more about Flex/actionscript on the
> frontend.
I've had some joy with Haxe as a way to write Flash to embed in a
Rails frontend.
The app hasn't gone public yet, but I'll let you know when it does.
Haxe is a
pretty
Big thanks from the Brisbane crew to Ryan and crew for organising this
great event...
As one of the people taking the proverbial reigns from Ryan and
beginning the planning on Railscamp #5, please keep the great ideas/
suggestions coming We are listening!
We look forward to welcoming all
> Ps. Why is the only thing I was remembered for was washing up!
>
Don't worry, it's not. I just wanted to make sure you knew we appreciated
it!
--~--~-~--~~~---~--~~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby
or Rails Oceania"
Hi, i'm the culprit behind that Comet demo. Any questions you can
email me direct or just ask here if you want.
Sorry about the lack of question time. That 5 mins sure goes fast!
On Nov 20, 3:08 pm, Adam Salter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah,
> I definitely got the most out of the short talks
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Dave Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I like screw-unit, but it doesn't run in ie, which is an unfortunate
> requirement for me.
Have you tried any of the forks on github? [1], for instance, passed
a simple test for me in IE 6, 7.
[1] http://github.com/joseph
55 matches
Mail list logo
