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Scala Case Classes and State Machines Using Akka Actors — A Single Programmer's Blog

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A Single Programmer's Blog. By François Beausoleil. Projects I work on:. Scala Case Classes and State Machines Using Akka Actors. We use the Twitter Streaming API. To harvest what people say about television shows. The Twitter Streaming API docs state that:. Upon a change, reconnect immediately if no changes have occurred for some time. For example, reconnect no more than twice every four minutes, or three times per six minutes, or some similar metric. From Updating Filter Predicates. The obvious first t...

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unit-testing — A Single Programmer's Blog

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A Single Programmer's Blog. By François Beausoleil. Projects I work on:. Keeping Yourself DRY in Shoulda Tests. When I’m testing admin controllers, I often have tests that follow this form:. Test/functional/admin/orders controller test.rb. Logged in as :active user. On GET to :index. Not logged in do. On GET to :index. Well, this is all Ruby, right? And Ruby has wonderful blocks, and blocks can be passed around…. Test/functional/admin/orders controller test.rb. Deny access tests = lambda do. MySQL’...

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Author Biography — A Single Programmer's Blog

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A Single Programmer's Blog. By François Beausoleil. Projects I work on:. My name is François Beausoleil, and I live in Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada. I was born in 1973, and that makes me more than 30 years old! I started coding in the early 80s on an Adam. From Colecovision. I then upgraded to the Commodore 64. Diverted through the Amiga 2000HD. With a 40 MiB HD, no less! And then I started my way onto PCs. In early 2005, I made the plunge, and started my own company: International Technological Solutions.

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Running ScalaTest Tests Under IntelliJ IDEA — A Single Programmer's Blog

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A Single Programmer's Blog. By François Beausoleil. Projects I work on:. Running ScalaTest Tests Under IntelliJ IDEA. I had lots of difficulties running my tests under IDEA. The exact error message was:. Error running All Tests:. Not found suite class. Was the name of my Run configuration. I finally ended up with the right incantations. In my POM. I have the following:. Scalatest 2.9.0-1 /artifactId. Then, I had to extend. For my test classes, like this:. Import org.junit.Test 3. A Ruby on Rails.

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Simple-Build-Tool: Error Getting Started — A Single Programmer's Blog

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A Single Programmer's Blog. By François Beausoleil. Projects I work on:. Simple-Build-Tool: Error Getting Started. I’m starting in Scala, because Seevibes. 8217; code is in Scala. Scala has a tool named simple-build-tool. For managing your projects. Is similar to Ruby’s Bundler and Clojure’s Leiningen in that it manages dependencies and helps build a project for you. Unfortunately, I had problems getting started. After following the Setup. Instructions, I was consistently getting this error:.

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Sequel's #set_all still restricts the primary key — A Single Programmer's Blog

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A Single Programmer's Blog. By François Beausoleil. Projects I work on:. Sequel's #set all still restricts the primary key. I ran into a little gotcha today, using Sequel. I’m writing an importer, you know the kind: read record from database A, apply some transformations, write to database B. No rocket science required. But. Sequel has a little gotcha that stumped me for a bit. My script looked like this:. Person.first name, 14. Contacts[ person.id ] = contact.contact id 18. Primary key [ :tenant code.

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plugins — A Single Programmer's Blog

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A Single Programmer's Blog. By François Beausoleil. Projects I work on:. Know How to Use Your Tools: ResourceController. Today, I was building a controller action that was polymorphically finding and associating an object. I could have used a. Dumb solution, such as this:. Watch /span = span class="co" Watch /span .build( span class="sy" :watcher /span => current person) span class="no" 4 /span span class="iv". Don’t know how to handle other keys…. Params.keys.inspect }. Watch /span .save! Watch /span &#...

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Daemontools: Tutorial — A Single Programmer's Blog

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A Single Programmer's Blog. By François Beausoleil. Projects I work on:. Daemontools is a collection of tools for managing UNIX services. Daemontools expects a collection of directories in. Each directory contains a. File, which must be executable. This file sets up the environment and runs the daemon. Note that all daemons will be started as root, since. Each service directory may also contain a. Directory, which itself contains a. This has a number of problems, which I’ll solve later on. To make things...

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Puppet Debugging: --noop — A Single Programmer's Blog

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A Single Programmer's Blog. By François Beausoleil. Projects I work on:. Puppet Debugging: - noop. I do more and more Puppet. And I really like it. It’s a simple way to declare the desired state of the world. As I do more and more with Puppet, I needed to debug my manifests: check that they were doing the expected thing. I was looking for some kind of dry run option, similar to. 8216;s or other tools, but. Didn’t provide any helpful hints. Until I stumbled upon Puppet dry run. A direct run with.

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rails — A Single Programmer's Blog

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A Single Programmer's Blog. By François Beausoleil. Projects I work on:. Using Hobo: Info From the Trenches. Recently, a friend asked me to help him rewrite the Access database they use to track donations into something better. I offered to rewrite as a web app (surprise! And chose to use Hobo. I’m not a designer, and it shows. My apps are horrible, and have bad choice of color. Red on blue? Check Green on orange? Check Wide margins and misaligned text base? Hobo isn’t really different from Rails:. Right...