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Part One: Discussion [Update] (2010-09-16): "Entries to assist translators":#update_1 Part Two: Quick Reference You're building a Rails 3 app. It needs to support internationalization (I18n). No problem. Rails 3 supports internationalization. You can use translate(key) or t(key). %h2= t('hello') It looks up the key in config/locales/en.yml: en: ...

You, like me, have a github pages powered blog. You, like me, are contemplating switching to WordPress for tags/categories. Fret no more. I added categories to my github pages powered blog today. You can too. Just assign a yaml list to categories in your page meta: categories: - ruby - rvm Listing and linking to them was harder than I expected. I was f...

Getting a SocketError while sending emails on heroku, using sendgrid? It may be some gmail env vars. While working on a project that I just inherited, we enabled sendgrid for our heroku app. Sending an email raised this error: SocketError (getaddrinfo: Name or service not known) Google searches indicated ActiveMailer configuration issues, but Heroku was...

Update: 12 May 2010. Updated automatic load instructions. As we have seen in the past, I couldn't find a definitive, accurate install and use guide for PostgreSQL with Rails on Snow Leopard, using homebrew. In the end, it took less work than any of the existing instruction lists (that I found) indicated. Of Note: I did NOT need to make any changes to m...

We have some scripts we run which are "instrumented" with messages and progress bars. Two issues: # These are muddying up our specs # In production, the progress bars can raise "Broken Pipe" errors (std out issues?). We will probably create some abstraction for this concept, but we started with:      puts "It's working." i...

h2. Moonshine "Moonshine":moonshine is "rails deployment and configuration management done right. ShadowPuppet + Capistrano == crazy delicious" We are going through a phase of server 'provisioning'. We need a demo server, one for load testing, and an updated ci server. We are also moving some production servers from Windows to Ubuntu. yay! Moonshine e...

h2. Intermittent processes We have just started to run some daemon-like processes which check status at various time intervals. We started with a simple ruby script which looped, sleeping between runs. This was quick and easy, and worked fine until the database connection was severed for second. We had a few different issues, all of which were intermit...

I wanted to start a blog. I did not want to use a formal engine (too much work) or a dead simple static file system (too lame). Then I found http://pages.github.com/. It was simple, with functionality: for post in site.posts h2. Choose. * http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/11/17/blogging-like-a-hacker.html * http://github.com/mojombo/tpw/tree/maste...