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Merbivore and Merbivore Soft

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:47:57 -0500

I just posted two of my favorite, everyday themes to the TextMate Themes Gallery

These colors are based on the old Merbivore wiki site.

I’ve got an emacs color theme too on my github, get it here: color-theme-merbivore, that one is more a work in progress.

meta key xmodmap ubuntu w/ a mac keyboard fix

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:30:01 -0500

I like using the apple Command key as both Alt and Meta in ubuntu. This makes switching windows feel the same as it does in OS X and makes the Command key act as the Meta key in Emacs.

The current “Layout Options” dialog in the Keyboard Preferences is a nice GUI to xmodmap, unfortunately, when you remap Alt to the Command key, Emacs picks it up as the Super key, which is a huge bummer.

All I had to do in the end is create a ~/.Xmodmap file and use this configuration:

! set the proper order for keys mapped to the apple command key
clear mod1
add mod1 = Meta_L Super_L Alt_L

All fixed!

emacs-rails-kit

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:05:00 -0500

Inspiration

After watching the Meet Emacs screencast, I’ve been giving emacs another whirl. I’m a new-school programmer, ruby being the first language that I’ve actually programmed for a living. So TextMate has been pretty much all I’ve known.

emacs-rails-kit

I’ve started building an emacs configuration, that should be general enough for the uses of most ruby/rails programmers. The configuration is based primarily on technomancy’s emacs-starter-kit, I’m trying to keep it as stripped down as possible though. It can be found on github: emacs-rails-kit

It should be enough so that the ruby/rails programmer can be up and running in just a few minutes. Note, it is currently a work in development, but it IS certainly usable in it’s current state. I am using every day at work, and it’s been great. Have fun.

Setting Font in Carbon Emacs

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:08:00 -0500

Within emacs:

M-x mac-font-panel-mode

Choose your desired font

M-x describe-font

Copy the X font string

Then add a line to your emacs config

(set-face-font 'default "-apple-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--14-0-72-72-m-0-iso10646-1")

Installing geoip-ruby on Leopard

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:02:00 -0500

Using GeoIP libraries in Ruby is easy….

curl -O http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/c/GeoIP-1.4.5.tar.gz
tar xvzf GeoIP-1.4.5.tar.gz
cd GeoIP-1.4.5/
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
sudo gem i geoip

curl -O http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
gunzip GeoLiteCity.dat.gz

Then you can just do something like this in your application:

require 'rubygems'
require 'geoip'

g = GeoIP.new(PATH_TO + "/GeoLiteCity.dat")
g.city("google.com")
=> ["google.com", "209.85.171.100", "US", "USA", "United States", "NA", "CA", "Mountain View", "94043", 37.4192, -122.0574, 807, 650]

Easy

Pragmatic Bash Scripts

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:35:20 -0500

Pragmatic Bash Scripts:

Best thing to happen to me in a long time. In the terminal, that is.

Using paperclip with ImageMagick on Leopard

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:03:00 -0500

Thoughtbot’s paperclip plugin does not need ImageMagick unless you want to start resizing and cropping image attachments.

After installing ImageMagick on leopard, I had to add this initializer to config/initializers in order for paperclip to find my ImageMagick binaries.

# config/initializers/paperclip.rb
Paperclip.options[:image_magick_path] = "/usr/local/bin"

After that, it worked fine.

Installing Ultraviolet Gem

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:00:00 -0500

Ultraviolet gem needs the oniguruma library installed.

In Leopard:

$ curl -O http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/archive/onig-5.8.0.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf onig-5.8.0.tar.gz
$ cd onig-5.8.0/
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
$ make
$ sudo make install

Easy, you can then install the ultraviolet gem the normal way:

$ sudo gem i ultraviolet

In Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install libonig2 libonig-dev
$ sudo gem i ultraviolet

acts_as_state_machine (AASM) and factory_girl

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:11:29 -0500

I was having trouble with initial states and factories on a recent project. I wanted to set the state of a factory object, but no matter what, it would be overwritten immediately.

The easiest solution I found is stubbing out set_initial_state on whatever model is carrying the state.

For example, if Order had state. In our order test:

require 'mocha'
class OrderTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
  def setup
    Order.any_instance.stubs(:set_initial_state)
    @order = Factory(:order, :state => "other_state")
  end

  ...
end

Now, when you create your factory, the state will be set to whatever you pass it.

Beethoven - Piano Sonata No 8, Op 13

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:05:00 -0500

Beethoven - Piano Sonata No 8, Op 13

Using Mocha in Development is Handy

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:01:15 -0500

I wanted to manually run a script, that was going to be setup as a cronjob. This script looked for order objects in the database, having a delivery_date in the next 24 hours.

I wanted to test this script, and the orders that it pulled back for processing, however, almost all of the delivery_dates we days in advance, so I just used mocha…

require 'mocha'
Time.stubs(:now).returns("11/20/2008 16:00:00".to_time)

That way I can just run the script, and mocha will make my call to Time.now thing that it is indeed November 20th 2008 at 4pm.

Morgen

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:50:54 -0500

I am starting to change shape

The Essence of ARBWOT

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:41:00 -0500

module ActiveRecord class BaseWithoutTable < Base self.abstract_class = true

  def create_or_update
    errors.empty?
  end

  class << self
    def columns()
      @columns ||= []
    end

    def column(name, sql_type = nil, default = nil, null = true)
      columns << ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::Column.new(name.to_s, default, sql_type.to_s, null)
      reset_column_information
    end

    # Do not reset @columns
    def reset_column_information
      generated_methods.each { |name| undef_method(name) }
      @column_names = @columns_hash = @content_columns = @dynamic_methods_hash = @read_methods = nil
    end
  end
end

end

Pretty Mary K (Other Version)

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:38:31 -0500

Pretty Mary K (Other Version)

"Going to go down in the water, fill my mouth up full of sand. I’ll be waiting still impatient..."

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:37:42 -0500

“Going to go down in the water, fill my mouth up full of sand. I’ll be waiting still impatient with my dead imagination while you’re with some other man.”

Create getters and setters from a ActiveRecord serialized db column

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:30:00 -0400

class Blog < ActiveRecord::Base serialize :metadata

  class << self
    def attr_serialized_on(column, *attributes)
      attributes.each do |a|
        class_eval do
          define_method(a) { meta(a) }
          define_method(a.to_s + "=(value)") { metadata[a] = value }
        end
      end
    end
  end

  def meta(key)
    metadata[key]
  end

  attr_serialized_on(:metadata, :title, :subtitle, :background, :foreground)

end

Fingerapp.com | Rails Rumble 08

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:03:03 -0400

With the help of my good friends, I’ve created http://fingerapp.com for railsrumble, it’s not perfect, needs work, but I’m proud of what we were able to build in 48 hours. Thanks Tony, Chris, and Owen.

In my tux going to my buddy Steve Ds wedding.

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:14:32 -0400

In my tux going to my buddy Steve Ds wedding.

This morning in bed

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:53:17 -0400

This morning in bed

"Hey dean! James Dean wore jeans, dean!"

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:15:42 -0400

“Hey dean! James Dean wore jeans, dean!”

- Steve D