Glenn Jahnke's blog
Helps
CCMenu + Hudson w/o Basic Auth
"Has anyone figured out how to use CCMenu with Hudson and not have Basic Auth?"
Hudson has its own authorization mechanism, unlike Basic Auth, so it can't be used with nice desktop tools like CCMenu which shows the red/green square in your system tray.
Consider using Jenkins.
Using Symlinks with Dropbox
Using the Linux Dropbox client seems to allow symlinks to be uploaded, but they will not behave as expect anywhere else. Someone was trying to have a "latest" folder point to the latest versioned folder.
The recommendation was just to have two copies of the files as a workaround.
Interestings
Rails Bridge Outreach for Women Workshop has space
Looking to learn Rails? There's a great meetup to get you up and running. As of this writing there is still space available. Come check the event out.
Yammer Javascript Meetup on Tuesday
Yammer will be hosting a Javascript meetup, expect the usual snacks and beer, and good talks about our favorite client-side language.
Ask for Help
"What do you tell Rails the default timezone is if your database has no concept like that?"
The best solution was to convert all rows in your DB to UTC and set Rails to also use UTC. There are MySQL commands to convert whole databases over to UTC, and can be run overnight if necessary.
Interesting Things
There is a new release of Fixture Builder!
- Supports Rails 2 and 3
- Supports using existing Rails style fixture files using
config.legacy_fixture = Dir[path_to_old_fixtures]in your fixture_builder.rb file - Its better tested too!
- Go grab it at https://github.com/rdy/fixture_builder#readme
Rails 3 Helpers
Rails now includes all helpers across your project in controllers that extends ApplicationController. Apparently there isn't a setting to override this behavior either, and this is a change from Rails 2 where the scaffold would just include a line at the top of your controller like helpers :all which could easily be deleted.