Manage delayed_job on Elastic Beanstalk
With huge thanks to this post by Daniel Viklund, I want to share some notes and code about how I am managing delayed_job on a Rails 3.2.16 app deployed on …
Convert a Select Drop-Down Box to an Autocomplete in Rails
I created a nice select drop-down box in Ruby on Rails 3.2.8 using SimpleForm 2.0.2 and Twitter Bootstrap 2.0.3, with authentication from CanCan 1.6.8. Since there are quite a few …
Postgres Error: Trigger is a System Trigger
All I wanted to do was test a little JavaScript. I’m working on my Ruby on Rails app: Rails 3.2.8, Rspec 2.11.0, Capybara 1.1.2, and Postgres 8.4. I added an …
Installing Ruby 1.9.3 under Ubuntu 10.04 LTS using RVM
Today when I tried to use rvm to install Ruby 1.9.3, I got errors referring me to make.log and make.install.log:
Formatting Time Zones and Datetime in Rails 3
Here is my current approach for formatting time zone and date/time values. I’m using Rails 3.1.3, SimpleForm 2.0.1, and Twitter Bootstrap 2.0.1. I had some trouble finding examples of how …
Set Up PostgreSQL for Rails 3.1
Heroku requires PostgreSQL for production and recommends it for development. Here is the process I worked out for installing PostgreSQL 8.4 and setting up a Rails 3.1 project. I’m working …
Install Rails 3.1 for the Rails Tutorial
I’ve been working through Michael Hartl’s Ruby on Rails Tutorial. I had some trouble in chapter 13 installing the released version of Rails 3.1.0, so I thought I would post …