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Software Maniacs Network: January 2014
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A blog devoted to sharing things I've learned related to software. Thursday, January 2, 2014. Replacing the scaffold controller Generator in Rails 4. Enter a new project. How to replace the scaffold controller in Rails 4 with your own custom version. Where does the code go? All of your new code will go somewhere specific in your applications "lib" directory. The templates for your CRUD views will go into lib/templates/haml/scaffold. OR if your using ERB lib/templates/erb/scaffold. Or if you're like me an...
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Software Maniacs Network: September 2013
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A blog devoted to sharing things I've learned related to software. Wednesday, September 25, 2013. Postgres SQL connection error - Is the server running locally. I ran into an issue on my Mac Mini today while setting up for a development footprint for a Rails 4 project I'm starting to work on this week. This new project requires Postgres which I have not used before. I ran into a snag installing it on my Mac Mini which is running OS X version 10.8.5. Initdb /usr/local/var/postgres -E utf8. Then I stumbled...
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Software Maniacs Network: September 2014
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A blog devoted to sharing things I've learned related to software. Monday, September 15, 2014. RSpec appears to stop prematurely without any all test output running feature test with Capybara. On stackoverflow.com is where I found my answer to the problem. The problem described on this post matched what I was seeing. I inserted the following code:. Capybara.server do app, port require 'rack/handler/thin' Rack: Handler: Thin.run(app, :Port = port) end. Near the top of my rails helper.rb. Have something yo...
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Software Maniacs Network: November 2010
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A blog devoted to sharing things I've learned related to software. Tuesday, November 30, 2010. Pay attention to tiny annoying little files that don't exist. I'm not sure if this will help anyone or not. However, it's an interesting story so I thought I'd share. I've been working on project XYZ.com (named changed to protect the innocent). This application current supports three out of the four major browsers (at least by my standards). So today I was trying to address another major flaw in the site. T...
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Software Maniacs Network: August 2010
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A blog devoted to sharing things I've learned related to software. Tuesday, August 17, 2010. Testing SharePoint outgoing email with Papercut. As an alternative to doing my email testing. No need to setup an SMTP server. No need to constantly jump into my email and check for the confirmation. For those times when you do need to see the email in an email client (when you need to check HTML rendering) you can forward captured emails. Wednesday, August 11, 2010. Fiddle me this Batman! Comes in to play! In fa...
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Software Maniacs Network: August 2013
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A blog devoted to sharing things I've learned related to software. Friday, August 23, 2013. Subtle parse error for database.yml file. Subtle parse error for database.yml file. Recently I was setting up capistrano for a new Rails 3.x application deployment. In typical fashion I was adjusting the database.yml file for a new environment but subtly introduced and error. The specific error was:. Did not find expected key while parsing a block mapping at line 4 column 1 . Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I've been ...
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Software Maniacs Network: October 2010
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A blog devoted to sharing things I've learned related to software. Friday, October 8, 2010. Install MySQL 5.1 for Development and Enable remote connections. Installing MySQL on Ubuntu. Sudo apt-get upgrade - show-upgraded. Sudo apt-get install mysql-server. Other things you might want to consider I have found useful in this Linode.com post. On setting up MySQL on a VM from their service. (which I have and think it's awesome). Sudo mysql secure installation. Of the docs for MySQL. A useful post with some ...
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Software Maniacs Network: October 2013
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A blog devoted to sharing things I've learned related to software. Tuesday, October 22, 2013. Setup cruisecontrol.rb with rbenv and building with multiple ruby versions. For this post I'm NOT. Going into how to setup CruiseControl.rb as there is already ample sources for that information. The same is true for setting up rbenv as you can also find many sources of information for that installation as well. If you want to start off with some sources I've used here they are:. Open the file cruise config....
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Software Maniacs Network: February 2013
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A blog devoted to sharing things I've learned related to software. Friday, February 1, 2013. Microsoft Keyboard with Mac OS X. You can skip this part). Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 v1.0. It is perfect for me. Unfortunately, even with the Microsoft supplied Mac OS X Intellipoint device drivers the keyboard was frustrating to use on the Mac Mini. The most frustrating point was the number pad NumLock key. As luck would have it I found an answer! If you decide to use the utility to solve this pa...
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