As I’ve noted before, in addition to running Ruby and Rails on my Linux boxes, I’m also running them on my Windows boxes. Dave Keener, a colleague from NovaRUG, e-mailed me asking for advice on how to set them up under Windows. Here is an expanded version of what I told him. Note that this [...]
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The Problem I recently had a client who needed some data conversion done. They had contact records from a number of difference sources that they needed to import into a new CRM system that they were deploying. They established the desired output format, provided the input files (i.e. files containing the contact information) and some [...]
I was thinking about application configuration and how to handle it in Rails, so I did a little Googling. I found Railscast #85, which addresses the issue. I was able to use the information provided by the author, Ryan Bates, to quickly whip up a configuration file containing information specific to my application. In the [...]
I went to test the URI class from the Addressable gem, looking for a replacement for the URI of the standard ruby library. The gem installation went smoothly, but as soon as I tried to use it, I got this error: irb(main):003:0> require ‘addressable/uri’ LoadError: no such file to load — addressable/uri from (irb):3:in `require’ [...]
I installed apache and MySQL on my Windows XP laptop by using WampServer. It’s convenient for setting up a local development environment. I’m creating a Rails application and ran “rake db:migrate” to create the database tables for my project. When I did so, I got the following: rake db:migrate –trace ** Invoke db:migrate (first_time) ** [...]
While creating a Ruby on Rails application for the first time under Windows XP, I ran into a problem. I usually do Ruby on Rails development on Linux, but I’ve been wanting to do it on my laptop; it runs XP, since I do a lot of .NET development. When I ran “rake db:create” to [...]
