[rails-oceania] [JOB] - Rails Developer 3 Month Contract - Remote

2014-11-24 Thread Robbie Shepherd
Hello, We (www.brandnewmedia.com.au) are in need of a mid-senior Rails developer for a 3 month contract. We're using Rails 4.1 (no legacy nonsense here!) and postgres, testing with Cucumber/RSpec, and deploying to Heroku several times a day. You'll be part of a small team of remote workers who w

Re: [rails-oceania] How can I access a constant set in development.rb?

2014-01-08 Thread Robbie Shepherd
I'm sure others will tell me there are other/better ways, but here's what I do. create a file called constants.rb and put it in config/initializers/ Then inside it you can do ADMIN_EMAIL = Rails.env.production? ? "product...@myapp.com" : " developm...@myapp.com" and in your mailer, you can jus

Re: [rails-oceania] Re: e-commerce recommendations

2013-05-28 Thread Robbie Shepherd
Thanks Steve. Is there any reason you can think of why I couldn't also accomplish "Suppliers to be able to log in and update order status for their orders." as well? On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Steve Hoeksema wrote: > I actually built a spree plugin that accomplishes the first 2. It was a

[rails-oceania] e-commerce recommendations

2013-05-28 Thread Robbie Shepherd
Hi there, Does anyone have recommendations for a Rails-based e-commerce platform that allows: products to be assigned to a supplier/vendor Orders to be split up and emailed to suppliers for fulfilment Suppliers to be able to log in and update order status for their orders. Shipping options and ca

Re: [rails-oceania] asurepay.cc

2012-06-25 Thread Robbie Shepherd
Thanks Paul, that might be the way to go then after all. Cheers, On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Paul Annesley wrote: > > On 24/06/2012, at 11:11 AM, Robbie Shepherd wrote: > > > Hi Steve, > > > > I thought -perhaps wrongly? - that to do recurring payments on payp

Re: [rails-oceania] asurepay.cc

2012-06-23 Thread Robbie Shepherd
a small fee ;) > > > > Cheers, > > > > Matta > > Matt Allen > > m...@devlogic.com.au > > 0413 777 771 > > > > On 24/06/2012, at 10:55 AM, Robbie Shepherd wrote: > > > >> Slightly off-topic, but has anyone had experience with www.asure

[rails-oceania] asurepay.cc

2012-06-23 Thread Robbie Shepherd
hich might very well have no legs. Asurepay seems to tick all these boxes for me but I'd never heard of them until now. Open to other suggestions too. Gateways with RoR integration is a big plus obviously. Thanks Robbie Shepherd -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: [rails-oceania] collecting GST for SAAS CMS usage

2012-01-19 Thread Robbie Shepherd
7 PM, Phil Oye wrote: > On 19/01/2012, at 8:13 PM, Robbie Shepherd wrote: > > > I guess I could fake it and ask for the address details anyway, but it > seems weird and poor UX to ask for a physical address in order to use > something online. > > I don't think that i

Re: [rails-oceania] collecting GST for SAAS CMS usage

2012-01-19 Thread Robbie Shepherd
ether they are in aus based on the address supplied > during checkout to match against their credit card details. > > — Ivan > > On 19/01/2012, at 8:02 PM, Robbie Shepherd wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Wondering how other folks handle GST collection for SAAS-ba

[rails-oceania] collecting GST for SAAS CMS usage

2012-01-19 Thread Robbie Shepherd
Hi, Wondering how other folks handle GST collection for SAAS-based products. Both the client/site owner and payment gateway are Australia-based, and so are the majority of their clients going to be, though the site is open to global customers as well. I would assume that if you provide a "check t

Re: [rails-oceania] merchant accounts?

2012-01-12 Thread Robbie Shepherd
eway.com.au works with activemerchant. A few hoops to jump through to get signed up though if I remember rightly. Robbie On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Simon Russell wrote: > Accepting credit cards from overseas shouldn't be a problem; that's > generally how they all work. Generally none of

Re: [rails-oceania] connect to gmail through a squid proxy in a rails app

2010-08-02 Thread Robbie Shepherd
t help your > cause. > > Matta > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Robbie Shepherd > wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > My rails 2.3.5 app is sitting on a sandboxed server that allows outbound > > access only through a squid proxy server. I'd like to use the exc

[rails-oceania] connect to gmail through a squid proxy in a rails app

2010-08-02 Thread Robbie Shepherd
Hi folks, My rails 2.3.5 app is sitting on a sandboxed server that allows outbound access only through a squid proxy server. I'd like to use the exception notifier plugin to notify me when my app plays up. Does anyone know if there's a setting in ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings that would allow t

Re: [rails-oceania] hpricot issues

2010-07-27 Thread Robbie Shepherd
ks to everyone for their suggestions and help. On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Jonathan Clarke wrote: > To me that looks like the remote servers issue, you could be hammering > it, put a sleep command in to let it recover a little. > > Jonathan > > On 28 July 2010 10:41, Robbie She

Re: [rails-oceania] hpricot issues

2010-07-27 Thread Robbie Shepherd
; e.g. is it a rails app deployed with passenger behind apache? > > :lachie > http://plus2.com.au > http://smartbomb.com.au > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lachie/ > > > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Robbie Shepherd > wrote: > > Simon, yes they are. &g

Re: [rails-oceania] hpricot issues

2010-07-27 Thread Robbie Shepherd
>> > >> Are you on OSX? If so, you can expand that limit with sysctl. Try: > >> > >> sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=36000 > >> > >> Sets to a bit over twice as much the default. Also, check > >> kern.maxfilesperproc. And ulimit. > >>

[rails-oceania] hpricot issues

2010-07-27 Thread Robbie Shepherd
Does anyone know if there's a maximum number of open connections allowed when using hpricot/net::http? I have a bunch of xml feeds I need to read via hpricot and write to disk. Whenever I hit it too hard/fast, or when I try to open several files in hpricot in a loop, my app dies. If I do somethin

[rails-oceania] caching data

2010-07-12 Thread Robbie Shepherd
I'm writing a piece of middleware in the form of a Rails app which aggregates a bunch of xml feeds, mashes them up and spits them out as json. I would like to cache the json output and have a background task update the json every xx minutes/hours. My question is - given that the output can't be pu

[rails-oceania] Re: spare ticket to Rails Camp going...

2010-04-07 Thread Robbie Shepherd
nd...I just realized it's next weekend! On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Robbie Shepherd wrote: > Unfortunately I can't make it to the Rails Camp in Canberra this weekend. I > have a "camping" ticket available if anyone wants to buy it from me (Hugh, > pres

Re: [rails-oceania] Build Status Indicators

2010-04-07 Thread Robbie Shepherd
you could use an wifi/bluetooth-enabled arduino board, some LED's in combo with serproxy (lightweight xml socket server) to push data to the arduino and turn on some lights/make noises when something happened. Don't think it would be too hard. Robbie On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Jonathan Cla

[rails-oceania] spare ticket to Rails Camp going...

2010-04-07 Thread Robbie Shepherd
Unfortunately I can't make it to the Rails Camp in Canberra this weekend. I have a "camping" ticket available if anyone wants to buy it from me (Hugh, presuming this is ok?) Cheers Robbie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group.

Re: [rails-oceania] a little polymorphic associations help please?

2010-03-14 Thread Robbie Shepherd
interesting, thanks Nathan, will give it a try. On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Nathan de Vries wrote: > On 14/03/2010, at 5:16 PM, Robbie Shepherd wrote: > > What I'd like to do is be able to specify or over-ride the has_attachment > options on a per model basis, so that

Re: [rails-oceania] a little polymorphic associations help please?

2010-03-13 Thread Robbie Shepherd
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Robbie Shepherd > wrote: > > What I'd like to do is be able to specify or over-ride the has_attachment > > options on a per model basis, so that I can change the path_prefix and > the > > thumbnails hash. I guess I need to get th

[rails-oceania] a little polymorphic associations help please?

2010-03-13 Thread Robbie Shepherd
I have the following 3 models below. Event and Performer each has_many :images :as => :asset. The Image model has an :asset_id and :asset_type column to allow multiple models to have images. What I'd like to do is be able to specify or over-ride the has_attachment options on a per model basis, so

Re: [rails-oceania] RailsCamp: Sydney -> Canberra

2010-02-27 Thread Robbie Shepherd
I'll also be taking my beast. Cruise with me if you like. You'll need to chip in for fuel, as she's a thirsty little thing. My car: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thegoodshepherds/3791057649/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/thegoodshepherds/3791870952/ leaving from Glenfield (south-western suburbs)

[rails-oceania] Re: Ruby Javascript minifier

2009-07-13 Thread Robbie Shepherd
I like asset_packager. Includes rake tasks that you can build into your capistrano recipes to generate fresh, cache-busted js and css on each deploy. http://synthesis.sbecker.net/pages/asset_packager On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Brian Chiha wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm at the tail end of

[rails-oceania] Re: Macbook Air as a dev machine

2009-01-07 Thread Robbie Shepherd
so get a long extension lead and some muscles! (yes you're probably right) On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Bodaniel Jeanes wrote: > > If his choice is between a MB and a MBA he's probably in the market > for a laptop... > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Robbie Sheph

[rails-oceania] Re: Macbook Air as a dev machine

2009-01-07 Thread Robbie Shepherd
build a hackintosh? I built a dual-core 2.2Gb intel with 4gb of ram and 500gb HDD, running leopard for under 650 bucks! On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:55 PM, David Phillips wrote: > > Hi, > > I was looking for some feedback from anyone out there using a MacBook > Air as a Rails dev machine. Would you r