October 15, 2007 – 8:07 am
I work on Ruby on Rails plugins fairly often, and I’m always curious how people make their plugins configurable.
For example, ActiveMessaging uses several config files – some are yaml, some are ruby – all of them get loaded when the plugin gets initialized. ActiveMessaging has more than a bit of configuration, so distinct files [...]
We had some fun folks from both the station/network side of PRX, and the independent producer side of the biz come hang out with us and talk about what to do next. Much of what we heard is now fermenting into the sweet brew of the next PRX release. For a non-PRX take [...]
With the Tapestry tap celebration this weekend, it’s just in the nick of time that the website for the Beantown Tapfest is now fleshed out.
I still need to spend some time making it prettier, adding images and such things, but most importantly it now has the list of events, and the online registration form which [...]
…it’s small, but found a bug in the new filter code in the ActionController for rails edge.
Showed up using habtm with ActiveScaffold – go figure.
Lesson learned – Array.insert should probably be named Array.insert! – it changes the underlying array, and sometimes that’s not what you mean to do.
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8383
Now we’ll see if it gets committed.
We use Amazon S3 at PRX for images and more importantly all our audio files. We love it.
What we really want to do is use EC2 – look at the gigavox success story on amazon’s site – we need almost the same things, and want to implement almost the same arch – except using [...]