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• SSHKeychain.socket Error on Rake Remote:Setup Still working through deploying a Rails app (if you’ve been following along, I got Subversion plugged in yesterday). Today was setting up the deployment by running: rake remote:setup The process kept erroring out saying: No File or Directory - /tmp/501/SSHKeychain.socket Turns out I had a bunch of cruft in ~/.MacOSX/properties.plist. After cutting out the offending xml and restarting. Everything
• Learning Ruby - Day 1  Mark Slagell’s writing style is conversational and educational. I’ve gone through a number of software language tutorials. I found Slagell’s first chapter a comfortable mix of background info, simple examples, and experiments. On the outset, Slagell states Ruby is based on the: Principle of Least Surprise: “If you don’t know how to do something and you try
• What’s Your Favorite Open Source Project? Hello gentle reader, I’m looking for your favorite open source projects; applications, websites, services. If the code is available for free and you’re a big fan, throw them in the comments. I’ll start: WordPress - weblog engine and content management system Ruby on Rails - web application framework CocoaMySQL - OS X desktop MySQL database manager Adium - Multi-protocol Instant
• Passing Sessions and Referers in Rails Functional Tests So, you’ve set up your Rails app to present different views to authenticated people verses non. Now, how do you test functionality for the authenticated people? Seems silly to have your tests sign in before checking whatever it is you want them to check. Well, pass the session data in the test as a hash. Turns
• REST-less with link_to This week, I file my first major complaint with Rails. I was innocently running tests and tweakings some views - when I discovered function that should work longer did. A little background, my app is filled with routes the make the URLs more contextually appropriate and memorable than the standard REST URL construction. If you have any