[rails-oceania] Re: Checking .html.erb file validity

2020-05-12 Thread Ben Koshy
Hi Tom I found this gem: https://github.com/w3c-validators/w3c_validators The trick would be to integrate it into your view specs. I'm not sure if there's an easy way to do that, but at least there's a place to start. regards Ben On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 10:10:19 PM UTC+10, Tom Hale

[rails-oceania] Re: Questions about recruiters in AU

2016-02-23 Thread Ben Turner
; in the five years I've been here, I've found it a really welcoming crowd. Cheers, Ben On Tuesday, 23 February 2016 21:49:30 UTC+11, Adler Hsieh wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > My name is Adler, will be moving to Melbourne in May and looking for a mid > to senior level Ruby on Rails j

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Recruiters and Coders

2016-02-01 Thread Ben Woodward
of the economics at work in the industry. However, it does get tiring responding to thousands of generic emails pinged to your inbox every year and it’s hard not to feel frustrated sometimes. I no longer look at my LinkedIn anymore because it’s so overwhelming. Ben — Ben Woodward Freelance

Re: [rails-oceania] [MEL] How to get Ruby employment with limited Ruby but plenty of programming experience

2014-07-31 Thread Ben Hoskings
knowledge there are no breaking syntax changes or stdlib API redesigns like in python 3. In sum, unless you have a project-specific reason not to, it's best to use the latest versions of both. - Ben On 31 Jul 2014, at 6:26 pm, Marky Mark m4r...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks adz, you're quite

Re: [rails-oceania] [MEL] How to get Ruby employment with limited Ruby but plenty of programming experience

2014-07-31 Thread Ben Hoskings
. - Ben On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, at 09:06 PM, Tim Moore wrote: I think that's good advice, but it's not *super* important. The differences are relatively minor, but there is some new syntax in 2.0 and 2.1 that isn't backwards-compatible with older versions, and 1.8.x in particular is past its

[rails-oceania] July presentation - hardware or software focus?

2014-06-18 Thread Ben Turner
My vote would be on the no such thing as magic talk. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post

[rails-oceania] Re: Melbourne RORO talk topic?

2014-04-16 Thread Ben Turner
+1 for factories / machinist and most importantly, a non-factory approach to testing (surely not just fixtures ?!) Ben On Wednesday, 16 April 2014 10:18:56 UTC+10, Pete Yandell wrote: Hi folks, So I'm giving a talk at the next Melbourne RORO meetup, and I've got a couple of possible talk

[rails-oceania] [JOB] South Melbourne - Rails and JS Developer wanted at Tickbox

2014-03-24 Thread Ben Goodvach-Draffin
Hey Team! Tickbox is a small company of about twenty people with a ten person strong development team. We’re based in a modern office near the South Melbourne markets. What we’re building is probably best described as an international social media platform for philanthropy and volunteering.

[rails-oceania] [ JOB ] Ruby on Rails Developer VOD Website

2014-02-11 Thread Ben
I am looking for an experienced Ruby on Rails developer to help develop a new video-on-demand website. Great opportunity to get in at the ground level of a business (and get paid). With potential to become tech co-founder. Developer can work from home as contractor initially. Cheers, Ben

Re: [rails-oceania] Melbourne Ruby Notes - November 2013

2013-11-30 Thread Ben Turner
I've put a PDF of my slides up at https://www.dropbox.com/s/ryrkc4cniczhv1y/ansible.pdf Ben On Friday, 29 November 2013 18:06:56 UTC+11, Pat Allan wrote: Hi Dave Tom’s slides are here: http://slid.es/tomspacek/dokku--2 Morten’s slides were mostly photos and require his storytelling

[rails-oceania] Re: Melbourne Ruby November

2013-11-18 Thread Ben Turner
Street WHAT: Four speakers, plus socialising, food and drinks. Our four speakers this month are: * Tom Spacek: Migrating away from Heroku to a local Australian host. * Ben Turner: Ansible - your first step into server provisioning. * Rhiana Heath: How to present. * Morten Primdahl

[rails-oceania] [JOB] Software Engineer - Ruby

2013-11-10 Thread Ben Immanuel
*About the company;* C3 is a business intelligence consultancy that makes its own software. We have an existing product, Integrity, that allows users to define rules over data imports before it reaches the data warehouse. We are currently doing some green fields development with a new client

[rails-oceania] Re: Ruby Australia AGM minutes - 3rd November 2013

2013-11-04 Thread Ben Schwarz
Gregs question was whether we could cost the projects created at railscamp (on the internal github) could be moved to a public place (perhaps github.com/rubyaustralia). There were no objections to doing this, but I'm also yet to hear of anyone who wanted to host their projects under the ruby

[rails-oceania] Re: [OT] Railscamp vullagers, boardgames and pokah

2013-10-28 Thread Ben Turner
. Cheers, Ben On Monday, 28 October 2013 00:15:05 UTC+11, Daryl wrote: Much like RC Tassie I was hoping some attendees could bring along some of their well-loved games to play (and teach) in the evenings. I, myself, have a deeply unhealthy relationship with werewolf and it's one of my

Re: [rails-oceania] Feedback from newbie night

2013-09-01 Thread Ben Hoskings
of design that I'm most confident in arguing for, and in my answers to (immutability, separation of concerns, and so on) are all in mental territory that I mapped by making wrong turns. - Ben On 01/09/2013, at 7:15 PM, Jack Chen m...@chen.do wrote: On a somewhat related note, I feel

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Melbourne Ruby, newbie night tomorrow night (Thursday 29th August)

2013-08-29 Thread Ben Hoskings
Hi all, here are the 'further reading' notes I linked in my git talk. http://d.pr/NKZj Feel free to fire questions in my direction. - Ben On 29/08/2013, at 10:34 PM, j10io m...@j10.io wrote: Hey All, What an awesome meetup, so great to see so many faces. Slides etc... should be posted

[rails-oceania] Re: RailsCamp 14 Sydney signup is now open.

2013-08-20 Thread Ben Schwarz
Julian, we discussed this strategy for the Melbourne camp — and we decided to keep it simple and ship with the version that you're familiar with. I'm sure that given some railscamp hacking (or via pull request) we could make those changes for next time. (ping Tim Lucas [sorry Tim] or myself

[rails-oceania] Re: Love-letter to RORO

2013-07-02 Thread Ben Schwarz
Yo Jeremy, I run a bunch of events and I'm a member of the ruby org committee — Its so, so nice to hear great feedback like this. John and I are super proud of how railscamp went overall, but its even better that you had such a good experience. 3 \o/ -- You received this message because

[rails-oceania] Important railscamp details

2013-06-18 Thread Ben Schwarz
) from 5:30pm. (Railscamp ticket not required) That, my friends is all you need to know (for anything else, please refer to the emails we've delivered to you - sent from jrbar...@gmail.com). 3's Ben, John Tim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby

[rails-oceania] [JOB] - Web Application Developer

2013-06-17 Thread Ben Silcock
Hi, We are looking to work with a freelance developer to develop an online training web application for the High Performance Academy. The development will integrate video lessons, quiz questions, progress reports and support forums. Remote work is acceptable. My preference is to find

[rails-oceania] MelbourneHack night - getting ready for RailsCamp

2013-06-07 Thread Ben Turner
if just to hear what other people are planning, be good to confer, share ideas and get inspired :) Cheers, Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email

Re: [rails-oceania] So, who *is* going to RedDotRuby in Singapore?

2013-06-05 Thread Ben Caldwell
Will be there, flying out tonight. Where's the werewolf happening at? - BC On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 9:03:23 PM UTC+8, Daryl wrote: Well, there *may* be a ww pack in my bag already =] D On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Andrew Grimm andrew@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Play

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Railscamp Melbourne, June 21—24

2013-05-17 Thread Ben Taylor
And then converted to JSFuck? http://www.jsfuck.com/ - Ben On Friday, 17 May 2013 at 5:40 PM, freshto...@gmail.com wrote: Nah, at Rails Camp it would be something written in Go that compiles to asm.js. On 17 May 2013 17:00, Ben Taylor m...@taybenlor.com (mailto:m...@taybenlor.com

[rails-oceania] Re: Railscamp Melbourne, June 21—24

2013-05-16 Thread Ben Schwarz
Reminder folks: You have until *midnight on Monday *to register for Railscamp, so get in the ballot ASAP! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Railscamp Melbourne, June 21—24

2013-05-16 Thread Ben Hoskings
-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Cheers Ben -- You received this message

[rails-oceania] Railscamp Melbourne, June 21—24

2013-05-14 Thread Ben Schwarz
Go register! http://railscamps.org http://melb13.railscamps.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Running rack apps

2013-05-07 Thread Ben Hoskings
I already am, I just got confused writing that message yesterday :) https://github.com/benhoskings/babushka-deps/blob/master/deploy.rb#L220 And yeah, I agree that everyone (including me) should read the signals manpage repeatedly. - Ben On 7 May 2013 17:21, Paul Annesley p...@annesley.cc

Re: [rails-oceania] [BEGINNER] Implicit vs Explicit return values

2013-05-06 Thread Ben Hoskings
have a 'return' keyword. - Ben On 7 May 2013 14:33, Sam Howie samho...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, PREAMBLE My name is Sam Howie. I am a gameplay programmer looking to diversify into the more stable field of web development. A good friend of mine highly recommended Ruby and Ruby on Rails

Re: [rails-oceania] [BEGINNER] Implicit vs Explicit return values

2013-05-06 Thread Ben Hoskings
/blob/master/lib/babushka/dep.rb#L313 - Ben On 7 May 2013 14:56, Craig Ambrose cr...@craigambrose.com wrote: That's a pretty good question Sam. There's a definite convention amongst ruby programmers to rely on the implicit return value. Certainly I never use the return keyword unless I'm

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Running rack apps

2013-05-06 Thread Ben Hoskings
of its new unicorns, and they have grown up, it will kill the older master unicorn, and all of its children will die This is otherwise known as sending it the USR2 signal. On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Ben Hoskings b...@hoskings.net wrote: We run two production rack/sinatra apps at TC. I

Re: [rails-oceania] [BEGINNER] Implicit vs Explicit return values

2013-05-06 Thread Ben Hoskings
when costs are visible, the fix (refactoring the method) is clear. - Ben On 7 May 2013 15:48, Paul Annesley p...@annesley.cc wrote: Maybe a better example: # unsurprising: lambda { proc { 1 }.call + 1 }.call # = 2 lambda { lambda { return 1 }.call + 1 }.call # = 2 # surprising? lambda

[rails-oceania] Re: Mid-2013 Melbourne RailsCamp?

2013-05-03 Thread Ben Schwarz
Announce is coming soon, but: It'll be June 21—24, in Melbourne. Still plenty of time for flights. Follow @railscamp_au on Twitter to keep in touch. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To unsubscribe from this group

Re: [rails-oceania] [JOB] Contract/Perm Ruby Dev Roles - Melbourne Based

2013-05-03 Thread Ben Taylor
won't have too many more replies. Let's all try to keep this list on topic (while still allowing people to bring up issues of inequity and unprofessional conduct). - Ben On Friday, 3 May 2013 at 5:33 PM, Daniel Sabados wrote: On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Alex Skud Bayley s

Re: [rails-oceania] [JOB] Contract/Perm Ruby Dev Roles - Melbourne Based

2013-05-03 Thread Ben Schwarz
Comments on job threads are often better handled off-list (privately) Locking this thread. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: [rails-oceania] Helping Junior Rubists Find Work

2013-05-03 Thread Ben Taylor
. The silly bit is that for many of them getting productive in a new language isn't a big deal. As the others have said, graduate or intern programs could definitely help your business (and give back to the community!) - Ben On Friday, 3 May 2013 at 5:02 PM, Steven Farlie wrote: My anecdotal

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Running rack apps

2013-04-30 Thread Ben Hoskings
We run two production rack/sinatra apps at TC. I recommend nginx + unicorn. This is how I do it (it's badly named; it's not rails-specific): https://github.com/conversation/babushka-deps/blob/master/rails.rb#L1-L4 - Ben On 1 May 2013 10:00, Steve H st...@kotiri.com wrote: I've had good luck

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Running rack apps

2013-04-30 Thread Ben Hoskings
Yeah, that's a good idea when they're a small extra piece. In this case, they're distinct apps with their own DBs (to postgres via sequel), and so I want each one to have separate DB credentials, to run as a separate unix user, etc. - Ben On 1 May 2013 10:35, Andrew Harvey synap...@gmail.com

[rails-oceania] [OT] Support the Draft Digital Technologies Curriculum

2013-04-29 Thread Ben Taylor
students, but those less motivated never get the chance to see the fantastic things they could potentially create. I personally hope that in the future this won't be the case. Cheers, - Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group

Re: [rails-oceania] Testing before_filters

2013-04-29 Thread Ben Hoskings
I think it makes debugging easier, not harder -- it produces a hard exception with a complete callstack. A 404 caused by a before_filter can take a lot of spelunking to track down. - Ben On 30 April 2013 09:24, Clifford Heath clifford.he...@gmail.com wrote: On 29/04/2013, at 9:28 PM, William

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Testing before_filters

2013-04-28 Thread Ben Hoskings
+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Cheers Ben -- You received this message because

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Testing before_filters

2013-04-28 Thread Ben Hoskings
preserve the session.) - Ben On 29 April 2013 12:19, Michael Pearson mipear...@gmail.com wrote: That's clever, Ben. What about the AAA role that before_filters tend to perform? On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Ben Hoskings b...@hoskings.net wrote: This is my problem with before_filters

Re: [rails-oceania] Best practices for return values

2013-04-26 Thread Ben Hoskings
that does work) makes sense; that's how #require behaves. - Ben Sent from my iPhone On 26/04/2013, at 3:05 PM, Sebastian Porto sebaspo...@gmail.com wrote: (Sorry if this ends as a double post, as I send this using email, but for some reason it doesn't show in the group. So I am posting it again

Re: [rails-oceania] Using form_for with nested resources in a namespace

2013-04-24 Thread Ben Taylor
could remove the namespacing from your models and that would fix it. Looking at StackOverflow all I can see is a recommendation to specify the URL yourself. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11713427/form-for-with-module-and-namespace Does that help? - Ben On Wednesday, 24 April 2013 at 3:34

Re: [rails-oceania] Hacknight

2013-04-11 Thread Ben Taylor
I intend to bring a project which is purely for evil. - Ben On Thursday, 11 April 2013 at 5:52 PM, Daryl Manning wrote: It's more a guideline, than a hard and fast rule. If it's FOSS that charities *could* use, then sure!... And hey, even then Hack Freestyle is the fallback. ciao

[rails-oceania] Re: Inviting corporate reps to RoRo ...

2013-04-08 Thread Ben Schwarz
I think its best to leave to the discretion of the organiser of said group — they do an incredible job to help speakers get their content out… I can't remember the last time we had an issue with some nasty commercial talk being given… so that seems like its working well already. -- You

Re: [rails-oceania] Trying to implement per tenant ID's

2013-04-03 Thread Ben Hoskings
).pluck(:member_id).first (max_member_id || 0) + 1 end end That will query efficiently: SELECT users.member_id FROM users WHERE users.tenant_id = 12345 ORDER BY member_id DESC LIMIT 1 - Ben On 3 April 2013 20:29, Rich Buggy r...@zoombugmedia.com wrote: Hi everyone, I'm

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: How to calculate an hourly, contractual rate

2013-03-17 Thread Ben Schwarz
I wouldn't call anyone with less than 10 years experience a senior. In my mind: Junior: 1 – 4 years Mid-weight: 5 – 9 Senior: 10+ We're talking not only skill, but mastery of craft and processes. On Monday, 18 March 2013 at 3:35 PM, Michael Pearson wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: How to calculate an hourly, contractual rate

2013-03-17 Thread Ben Schwarz
Ben, they're two totally different subjects. I'm so not getting into one of those define what you mean discussion threads. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

Re: [rails-oceania] RedDotRubyConf 2013

2013-03-16 Thread Ben Caldwell
Nearly missed the early bird! Thanks for the reminder :) On Thursday, March 14, 2013 12:51:20 PM UTC+8, Winston Teo wrote: Hi Guys, Just want to let you all know that RedDotRubyConf early bird is going to end soon. Have you bought your tix? http://www.reddotrubyconf.com Hope to see you

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: How to calculate an hourly, contractual rate

2013-03-14 Thread Ben Taylor
You also need to take into account lack of holiday pay, sick leave and job security. $70k after tax is what you would expect from a graduate IT position. And with contracting you don't get the perks of a normal job. - Ben On Friday, 15 March 2013 at 3:59 PM, Dan Cheail wrote: Nicholas

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: How to calculate an hourly, contractual rate

2013-03-14 Thread Ben Taylor
in either consulting or development roles. Example companies: * IBM * Google * Deloitte Digital * Macquarie Bank * Atlassian * Commonwealth Bank * NAB FYI the ones I know who were super capable (PhDs and such) often got taken by American companies for $100K graduate positions. - Ben

[rails-oceania] Re: Recommendation for a distributed CI service

2013-03-13 Thread Ben Schwarz
You know, I reckon if you asked Konstantin or Josh super nicely, you might get access to Travis-CI private. On Sunday, 27 May 2012 22:51:28 UTC+10, Trung LE wrote: Hi all I am looking for a free/paid online CI service that is similar to Travis CI but support private GitHub repo for my

Re: [rails-oceania] Ruby/Rails in the Bay Area

2013-02-28 Thread ben wiseley
of booze, open balcony... pretty fun. I haven't been to their meetup yet but the local Ruby group is http://www.sfruby.info/ Drop me a line and we'll take you out while you're here. You're welcome to come hang out at the office too if you want a desk for the day. -ben 415-405-5410 On Thu, Feb 28

Re: [rails-oceania] Help send Konstantin to Magma conf

2013-02-24 Thread Ben Schwarz
Now we've established that the form is secure, and that Konstantin is a baller—send some bucks. On Sunday, 24 February 2013 19:51:44 UTC+11, pythonic wrote: Nah, the form's submitted via https, served by Stripe. You are assuming the form action is not modified by a MITM. Thanks,

[rails-oceania] Help send Konstantin to Magma conf

2013-02-23 Thread Ben Schwarz
Our Mexican ruby buddies run a conference called Magma conf, they've been trying to get Konstantin to Mexico since the conference started 3 years ago. So, after all the love of Rubyconf in Australia, why not donate some bucks to help make another community run event absolutely rad?

Re: [rails-oceania] Help send Konstantin to Magma conf

2013-02-23 Thread Ben Schwarz
share the love. On Sunday, February 24, 2013 6:15:50 PM UTC+11, Alex Bayley wrote: On 24/02/13 6:11 PM, Ben Schwarz wrote: Our Mexican ruby buddies run a conference called Magma conf, they've been trying to get Konstantin to Mexico since the conference started 3 years ago. So, after

[rails-oceania] More vulnerabilities today: rails json need updates

2013-02-11 Thread Ben Hoskings
', '= 1.7.7' 3) Run `bundle update json` 4) Run specs 5) SHIP IT Cheers Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rails-oceania+unsubscr

Re: [rails-oceania] More vulnerabilities today: rails json need updates

2013-02-11 Thread Ben Hoskings
Good call. I commit with `git add --patch` (`gap`) and `git commit -v` (`gc`) so I always see the diffs I'm committing, and that stuff can't slip through. - Ben On 12 February 2013 09:53, Michael Pearson mipear...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Ben Hoskings b

Re: [rails-oceania] More vulnerabilities today: rails json need updates

2013-02-11 Thread Ben Hoskings
it was incorporated. - Ben On 12 February 2013 09:48, Jon Rowe m...@jonrowe.co.uk wrote: If you feel the need to lock to a specific version rather than just `bundle update json` then ~ is safer than = as it will only allow patch version updates. Jon Rowe - m...@jonrowe.co.uk

Re: [rails-oceania] More vulnerabilities today: rails json need updates

2013-02-11 Thread Ben Hoskings
I think it's always best to not yank the gem, but I like the idea of having some sort of annotation. Bundler could then exclude them by default, with an --include-unsafe option to pull them in when required. - Ben On 12 February 2013 11:21, Simon Russell si...@bellyphant.com wrote

Re: [rails-oceania] More vulnerabilities today: rails json need updates

2013-02-11 Thread Ben Hoskings
(But then, most popular gems would end up flagged as unsafe. :) For a start, every version of rails before 3.2.12 would be unsafe as of today.) On 12 February 2013 11:25, Ben Hoskings b...@hoskings.net wrote: I think it's always best to not yank the gem, but I like the idea of having some

Re: [rails-oceania] Understanding Brixen's comments about Ruby security

2013-02-08 Thread Ben Hoskings
existed and went unpatched for so long because the ruby community is culturally too relaxed with security. Again, whether that's fair or not is another question. But I think he's right that it only adds to existing criticisms (that we're cavalier, and value glitz over rigour). - Ben Sent from

Re: [rails-oceania] Understanding Brixen's comments about Ruby security

2013-02-08 Thread Ben Hoskings
surface. - Ben Sent from my iPhone On 09/02/2013, at 4:36 PM, Nicholas Jefferson nicho...@pythonic.com.au wrote: in the context I mentioned The relevant context here has web developers who thought nothing of calling YAML.load, and would think nothing of calling eval from a function with an IO

Re: [rails-oceania] Rails Security Vulnerability

2013-01-08 Thread Ben Hoskings
:) - Ben Sent from my iPhone On 09/01/2013, at 9:26 AM, Jon Rowe m...@jonrowe.co.uk wrote: Hey Rubyists In case you've missed this mornings news, there's a *new* Rails vulnerability which requires patching: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/61bkgvnSGTQ

[rails-oceania] Fwd: SQL Injection Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails (CVE-2012-5664)

2013-01-02 Thread Ben Hoskings
Hi all, forwarding for those who aren't on the security list. This vulnerability looks potentially serious―using finders in this way is pretty standard. (I haven't looked into it further than the announcement.) Cheers Ben Begin forwarded message: From: Aaron Patterson tenderl...@ruby

Re: [rails-oceania] Is there a way to reuse scopes in a has-many-through association?

2012-12-17 Thread Ben Hoskings
There is indeed, in fact I wrote a post on this very thing a little while ago :) http://benhoskin.gs/2012/07/04/arel-merge-a-hidden-gem - Ben On 18/12/2012, at 2:17 PM, Iain Beeston iain.bees...@gmail.com wrote: I've had an activerecord problem that's been bugging me for a while. If you

Re: [rails-oceania] Is there a way to reuse scopes in a has-many-through association?

2012-12-17 Thread Ben Hoskings
Good catch. The rule is that the #joins call is responsible for naming all the tables that the conditions in the merges will reference. - Ben On 18/12/2012, at 3:35 PM, Michael Gall mich...@wakeless.net wrote: I've been working with this a bit lately, and the 1 point that's kinda brushed

Re: [rails-oceania] RoRo Talks

2012-12-10 Thread Ben Taylor
All presentations must be accompanied with typewriter noises and each letter entering one by one. - Ben On Tuesday, 11 December 2012 at 11:11 AM, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: What do you mean no transitions? Where's the fun in that? On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Steven Ringo goo

Re: [rails-oceania] Hung server processes in rails

2012-12-05 Thread Ben Taylor
Does Heroku forcefully timeout requests that go beyond 30 seconds? I've had success using Unicorn and changing my timeout time to be 60+ seconds (hack to avoid switching to direct-to-s3 uploads). - Ben On Thursday, 6 December 2012 at 3:00 PM, Iain Beeston wrote: Thanks Pat. Heroku also

Re: [rails-oceania] Call for Speakers @ Melbourne Meetup

2012-11-26 Thread Ben Hoskings
If there's interest, I'd like to talk about postgres replication, how to set it up securely and simply, and how to monitor it. - Ben On 27/11/2012, at 9:25 AM, David Goodlad da...@goodlad.net wrote: Hi all We've had a couple of people pull out for speaking this month at the Melbourne

Re: [rails-oceania] How to run CI tests in parallel

2012-11-25 Thread Ben Hoskings
, but in practice it hasn't been an issue. - Ben On 26/11/2012, at 9:28 AM, James Healy ja...@yob.id.au wrote: A previous project I worked on used Jenkins with a vagrant plugin to run concurrent tests in isolated VMs. It took a bit of setting up, but once it got going it was amazing and dropped

Re: [rails-oceania] Multi-tenancy book

2012-11-22 Thread Ben Schwarz
Is the book going to be published by you? Or someone else? Paper? Ebook? Both? Pricing is hard, but there are many questions to answer before then. A couple of people who have self published (and written incredible books) are: * Mathias Meyer, http://riakhandbook.com/ * Marc-André

Re: [rails-oceania] Recommendations for AJAX buttons actions in Rails 3.2

2012-11-21 Thread Ben Taylor
and data-prepend-to. This way you don't have to write a lot of JS and get something similar to the 2.3 behaviour. - Ben On Wednesday, 21 November 2012 at 11:54 PM, Dave Perrett wrote: Interesting, thanks Adam - I've been meaning to have a look at angular. This is the kind of thing I've been

[rails-oceania] Rails Necromancy - Getting a 2.3.4 app running

2012-11-20 Thread Ben Taylor
getting anywhere. I've managed to figure out what versions of everything it used to run on, but it won't run now. The culprit at the moment is Devise. I don't really understand the issue, but I'll give you a stack trace. /Users/ben/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p371/gems/activesupport-2.3.14/lib

Re: [rails-oceania] Rails Necromancy - Getting a 2.3.4 app running

2012-11-20 Thread Ben Taylor
Ahh, of course. It's Devise.mailer_sender = nore...@redacted.com - Ben On Tuesday, 20 November 2012 at 11:25 PM, Pat Allan wrote: Ben, what's line 21 of your devise.rb initialiser? On 20/11/2012, at 10:36 PM, Ben Taylor wrote: Hi RoRo, At work we have a very old app

Re: [rails-oceania] Rails Necromancy - Getting a 2.3.4 app running

2012-11-20 Thread Ben Taylor
heroku stack:migrate bamboo-ree-1.8.7 It just worked for me. Ahh, I tried to create a new app on Bamboo and got denied (because they are forcing everyone over to cedar). Will try migrating. - Ben On Tuesday, 20 November 2012 at 11:27 PM, Phil Oye wrote: I was in a similar

Re: [rails-oceania] Rails Necromancy - Getting a 2.3.4 app running

2012-11-20 Thread Ben Taylor
Looks like the migration to Bamboo has gone smoothly. Pity Heroku didn't mention this was an option in any of their communications. I would have been pulling my hair out all week. - Ben On Tuesday, 20 November 2012 at 11:28 PM, Ben Taylor wrote: heroku stack:migrate bamboo-ree-1.8.7

Re: [rails-oceania] [OT] Railscamp Tassie and boardgames

2012-11-12 Thread Ben Taylor
of card games :P - Ben On Monday, 12 November 2012 at 6:50 PM, Daryl Manning wrote: One of the things I really love about Railscamp evenings is the fact that more than a few game geeks drag some of their faves along to play in the evenings. It's where I discovered Werewolf with which I now have

Re: [rails-oceania] automated webpage to PDF creation

2012-11-06 Thread Ben Taylor
. - Ben On Wednesday, 7 November 2012 at 5:14 PM, Tim McEwan wrote: Hi all, I want to automate the creation of around 100 PDFs with user data and graphics generated by JS (charts mostly, but maybe some Raphael). Each PDF is an energy bill. The whole environment can be controlled, so

Re: [rails-oceania] automated webpage to PDF creation

2012-11-06 Thread Ben Bruscella
http://railscasts.com/episodes/220-pdfkit ? On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Tim McEwan t...@mcewan.it wrote: Hi all, I want to automate the creation of around 100 PDFs with user data and graphics generated by JS (charts mostly, but maybe some Raphael). Each PDF is an energy bill. The

Re: [rails-oceania] Continuous Integration Server

2012-10-30 Thread Ben Hoskings
diagnose specific specs locally (zeus zeus zeus). - Ben On 31/10/2012, at 11:39 AM, Jack Chen m...@chen.do wrote: +1 on good CPU. Also, consider parallelising your build if you haven't already. Our build would take 2 hours 51 minutes if ran in serial, but in parallel over 2 servers (56 logical

Re: [rails-oceania] [OT] Anybody have one of the new retina MBP 13 models? Care to share your experiences?

2012-10-29 Thread Ben Hoskings
Yep, I've been driving a 27 from my 11 Air for a year now and it's great. The Air doesn't struggle at all. (There are always going to be intensive things like a complex fullscreen webgl that aren't totally smooth, but you can't have it all.) - Ben On 30/10/2012, at 10:01 AM, Adam Boas

[rails-oceania] Re: RubyConf Australia 2013 Update

2012-10-28 Thread Ben Schwarz
Keith, I've been seeing a lot of people +1ing the pull requests on Github… this could simply be seen as a popularity contest for trying to get your talk to become selected. Does this hold any baring on the talks that are selected? Disclaimer: I do not have a talk submission for RubyConf

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

2012-10-24 Thread Ben Hoskings
a week of uptime: http://d.pr/qtmH It's a wonderful machine to cart around (it's not much heavier than an iPad) and the battery life is very good (if you watch the brightness, 3-4 hours). - Ben On 25/10/2012, at 10:26 AM, Rich Buggy r...@zoombugmedia.com wrote: Hi everyone I'm planning

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

2012-10-24 Thread Ben Taylor
!). With modern Apple MacBooks being entirely non-upgradeable I'd want to make sure I have the most RAM possible from the start. Unless you intend to upgrade every year (not unreasonable). - Ben On Thursday, 25 October 2012 at 11:39 AM, Ben Hoskings wrote: Hi Rich, My only machine is an 11 Air (one

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

2012-10-24 Thread Ben Hoskings
I'm doing. Working on a big rails app, you're going to burn the battery running specs and loading pages, no way around it. But if I'm hacking on babushka, which is pure ruby, then there's no app or spec boot time, so the battery goes a lot further. - Ben On 25/10/2012, at 11:43 AM, Daryl

Re: [rails-oceania] MacBook Air for development

2012-10-24 Thread Ben Hoskings
paying a premium for that or not, I don't mind. - Ben On 25/10/2012, at 12:35 PM, Richard McGain mcg...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to pipe up here with a counter argument. Buy an ultrabook. Just as light and portable as a mac, just as easy to develop on. Battery life is great and even

Re: [rails-oceania] How to spec an overridden Rails 3 FormHelper?

2012-10-15 Thread Ben MacLeod
Thanks Pat, that's about what I figured. RenderERBUtils in ActionPack's test suite seems to be used for injecting ERB as strings into tests or something similar - https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/actionpack/test/abstract_unit.rb#L66. Maybe that's what you're thinking of? -- You

[rails-oceania] How to spec an overridden Rails 3 FormHelper?

2012-10-14 Thread Ben MacLeod
. If I am right, what would be the least hacky way of making a spec that does the same thing as the helper does in the context of a full app? Make an ERB string and somehow pass it to the helper to render? Love it if anybody had anything helpful to add to it. Cheers, Ben -- You

[rails-oceania] [JOB] Senior Ruby role at The Conversation

2012-10-14 Thread Ben Hoskings
). Contractors are also welcome at a rate of $550/day + GST. Please give Gus a call (0417 523 137) or reply to me off-list if you'd like to meet the team and talk further. Cheers, Ben Hoskings -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: Querying Inconsistencies

2012-10-12 Thread Ben Taylor
, finish) you can do where(created_at: start..finish) Neat trick. I'll remember that. Is there a similar way to get a != version of a query? (risking going off topic) - Ben On Friday, 12 October 2012 at 4:47 PM, Krasimir Angelov wrote: Have you checked actual SQL generated in the logs

[rails-oceania] Querying Inconsistencies

2012-10-11 Thread Ben Taylor
are there. Any ideas about what I'm doing wrong? - Ben -- 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, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr

Re: [rails-oceania] Postgresql as a service on Heroku. anyone using it?

2012-10-11 Thread Ben Taylor
cost databases we get some pretty excellent performance (between 1-15ms response) across tables with hundreds of thousands of rows with hundreds of inserts and updates per second. - Ben On Friday, 12 October 2012 at 2:06 PM, Pat Allan wrote: Most of my active apps these days are on Heroku

[rails-oceania] Re: $80 for one hour of work! (list moderation, job postings)

2012-10-08 Thread Ben Schwarz
Hi all, Disclaimer: I'm one of the moderators. We've all come a long way in the last few years of the RORO list, at one time the list was the only way to find out about jobs, get help from local people, plan meetups, and all sorts of other things. To me, it would feel wrong to take away or

Re: [rails-oceania] [ JOB ] - 5 x Senior Ruby on Rails Developers - Permanent - $100-$140k - Sydney

2012-10-03 Thread Ben Schwarz
Guys, I spoke with Rob over email earlier. The original message went missing for one reason or another, I haven't been able to track it down. I'm guessing that the 'double up' was for those who receive the list via email? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [rails-oceania] [rorosyd] Talks for October 9

2012-09-17 Thread Ben Taylor
I'm interested! Do you have an app in the app store? Would love to hear about more than just the standard getting started guide. Eg. Cocoa Wrappers, project organisation, pods and comparison with traditional iOS App workflows. - Ben On Monday, 17 September 2012 at 2:28 PM, Michael

[rails-oceania] SMS Gateways in Australia

2012-09-13 Thread Ben Taylor
Hey Roro, This isn't entirely on topic. But does anyone know a good quality SMS gateway? Preferably with a focus on Australia and a decent HTTP API. Thanks! - Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To post

Re: [rails-oceania] client-side mvc with Rails

2012-08-30 Thread ben wiseley
of the opinionated software philosophy then lets do that. We're not doing that at this time with things outside of rails-api and vanilla UI stuff. -ben On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Julio Cesar Ody julio...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Mark, what DHH said during the video was that _he felt_ a vanilla

[rails-oceania] Where is Ryan Bigg?

2012-08-28 Thread ben wiseley
Finally, one of the hardest problems facing modern society is solved: http://whereisryanbigg.herokuapp.com/ Contributions welcome: https://github.com/wiseleyb/whereisryanbigg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby or Rails Oceania group. To post to

[rails-oceania] off-topic: friends looking for jobs as agile-coach and java-dev

2012-08-27 Thread ben wiseley
Sorry for the off topic post but, I have some friends (from US) who are looking for a 6 month contract here (or NZ) as an agile-coach or a java-dev. Anyone know some recruiters that specialize in that? -ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby

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