Category Archives: Ruby

Using Ruby Subversion Bindings to Create Repositories

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Geoff Lane

Subversion has a default Web UI that is served up by Apache if you run Subversion that way. It is pretty boring and read-only. Then there are things like WebSVN that make it less boring, but still read-only. I got … Continue reading →

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Capistrano and Ferret DRB

Posted on June 19, 2008 by Geoff Lane

This is a bit of a followup to my previous post on Capistrano with Git and Passenger. I decided to use Ferret via the acts_as_ferret (AAF) plugin. Ferret is a full-text search inspired by Apache’s Lucene but written in Ruby. … Continue reading →

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Capistrano Deploy with Git and Passenger

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Geoff Lane

One of the great things about Rails and its community is that they are very lazy. Lazy in the good way of not wanting to do boring, repetitive, error prone things manually. They metaprogram and they automate. A great example … Continue reading →

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Coffee DSL Redone With Meta-Programming

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Geoff Lane

In a previous post I wrote about DSLs as Jargon. I implemented a simple Coffee DSL that would allow code to parse an order written by a human and turn it into a domain model. I used a fairly basic … Continue reading →

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Mongrel Cluster and Apache Need Memory

Posted on August 22, 2007 by Geoff Lane

I use a VPS hosted by SliceHost as my personal server. SliceHost uses Xen to host multiple instances of Linux on a single machine. The performance of this setup has been very good. I have been running: Apache 2.2 with … Continue reading →

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Interact with REST Services from the Command Line

Posted on August 10, 2007 by Geoff Lane

REST is becoming more popular as a means of implementing Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) as well as merely providing simple remote APIs for interacting with systems. The main reason for this is that it provides a very simple means of … Continue reading →

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Active Directory Authentication for Ruby on Rails

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Geoff Lane

Ruby on Rails can be used to build many kinds of web applications including public internet applications as well as private intranet ones. As an intranet application it is often very interesting to be able to do Single Sign-On using … Continue reading →

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Making Session Data Available to Models in Ruby on Rails

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Geoff Lane

Ruby on Rails is implemented as the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern. This pattern separates the context of the Web Application (in the Controller and the View) from the core Model of the application. The Model contains the Domain objects … Continue reading →

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RESTful Rails for Ajax

Posted on April 27, 2007 by Geoff Lane

Ruby on Rails 1.2 added full support for building RESTful services to the already nice web page support. REST is a conceptually simple idea, yet incredibly powerful. REST is a Web based API to an application. It builds on the … Continue reading →

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Understanding Domain Specific Languages as Jargon

Posted on March 5, 2007 by Geoff Lane

Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) are the idea of creating syntaxes that model a very specific problem domain. Domain Specific Languages are not a new concept. Some people call them ‘little languages’. The Unix world has a bunch of little languages. … Continue reading →

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