Coding to happiness

Github clone for mac is awesome! After using gitx for years,...

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:54:30 -0400

Github clone for mac is awesome! After using gitx for years, I’m excited to try something new and I must say, so far, i’ve very happy. Very little bugs and works great from the terminal.

How to fixed the " undefined method 'task' " in Rails 3.0.7

Tue, 24 May 2011 03:14:21 -0400

rake aborted!


undefined method `task' for #
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

Does this look familiar? I know what your thinking. WDF? I didn’t do anything. Right? Well, actually you did. You updated bundler, which used rake 0.9.0 and your broke it all! Abandon ship! Abandon ship! Oh wait.. there is a fix. And here it is. Open your Rakefile. Got it open? Good. Now put this snippet of code inbetween the

require 'rake'

And the

Yourapp::Application.load_tasks

The snippet

module ::Yourapp class Application include Rake::DSL end end module ::RakeFileUtils extend Rake::FileUtilsExt end

And wow! Things should be working. If your having problems after this, just delete your Gemfile.lock, remove all of your gems in your gemset (you are using RVM with gemsets aren’t you?),then bundle install your gems again. Yup, your rake will be working as right as rain in no time.

Also so you know, patches have been merged to the latest version of rails that fixes this problem so if you just upgrade your problem will be solved, however.. it might break more things ;)

Take my quick survey (just 4 questions)

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:19:18 -0400

I created this really quick survey and was wondering if anyone reading this might take the time to do it. It’s just 4 questions and non-intrusive.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MZVKKYX

Thanks!

- The Net Duck

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Mysql , Mac and Gems

Sat, 22 May 2010 00:44:09 -0400

Very good tutorial, up to date
http://otype.de/index.php?id=201

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Installing mysql5 on a mac with MacPorts

Fri, 21 May 2010 23:47:14 -0400

Many of you (like me) have been looking through the different blogs trying to set up mysql with macports with this command

sudo port install mysql5 +server

The problem is, that command is no longer used anymore. Read this post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1081231/macports-doesnt-install-org-macports-mysql5-plist-with-mysql5-server

It’s changed to sudo port install mysql5-server

I hope this helps someone. I know it helped me. Also, they apparently have updated things like automatic symbolic links and stuff

- The Net Duck

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Reload your ruby script/console on the fly!

Mon, 17 May 2010 14:04:22 -0400

yup, you can do it. just type in ….. “reload!” and your done. (no quotes) - The Net Duck

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Very Cool for Rails Docs

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:05:18 -0400

http://github.com/voloko/sdoc/

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Rubyonrails.org is down! What do we do?!

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:52:28 -0400

Ladies and gentlemen boys and girls, it has happened. Rubyonrails.org is down. Yes, it is now replaced by that college girl ad we all know so well …

So it looks like someone forgot to pay their bill on time. One again the ad gods strike! I want my api! I want my rails tutorials back! I want…. rubyonrails.org restored to it’s true owner, some nerd living in his basement (or maybe a nice house). For me, the sense of security that surrounds knowing rails “got my back”…. is slowly being dissolved into… well something else.
So where did it go? When will it come back? We may never know.. just like Why, the luck still, vanished without a goodbye.
- The Net Duck

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Your physical body effects your emotions!

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:51:26 -0400

This is an absolutely amazing discovery. I can hardly believe how simple this concept is but at yet how effective it is. Not just for motivation, but for any type of emotion you desire in your life! Try this, (if you want). Smile, yes, force yourself to smile then stand up tall, fill out your body and then try to think about something that normally gets you depressed. It’s really had isn’t it? This is because your body makes mental associations to being happy, sad, depressed, motivated. For instance, if you practice walking with confidence you are going to feel more confident! Amazing isn’t it? It seems so simple but yet this one tool has so many powerful uses.
For instance, maybe your feeling blue. Go somewhere private and just smile and move your body quickly. This will really get you feeling less down. Also, when you walk, don’t look down, look higher, you will be surprised at how much better this makes you feel. You can do this for about anything.
Fantastic.
- The Net Duck

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I found this great template for creating a simple rails app

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:03:09 -0500

If you don’t know what Rails Templates are, they are pretty much a way of generating rails code the way you want it to be generated. For example, you find yourself “always” doing the same thing over and over again to set up your authentication, a template will automat that task for you. This guy created what I think is a pretty good one

http://github.com/hectoregm/groundwork

- The Net Duck

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Best game ever! I can't stop playing

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:01:21 -0500

be careful, it will waste your time

http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-twitchy-online-game.html

- Ya…

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Make Ruby on Rails select_tag stick

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:49:06 -0500

I spend a couple hours yesterday trouble shooting a very minor bug in my code that had be grinding my teeth. This was the link of code

Hidden: <%= select_tag :hidden, options_for_select({‘No’ => 0, ‘Doesn't Matter’ => -1 ,’Yes’ => 1}, params[:hidden]) %>

The problem here, was the last part of this code “params[:hidden] should be setting the default correctly every time the page is called again. The problem is, the contents of params[:hidden] is in string format while it should be in int format. This is an easy fix all you have to do is something like ….

params[:hidden].to_i

And your done. So in conclusion, pay attention to your data types! Ruby doesn’t always handle eveything for you.

- The Net Duck

Here is the funished line that works.

Hidden: <%= select_tag :hidden, options_for_select({‘No’ => 0, ‘Doesn't Matter’ => -1 ,’Yes’ => 1}, params[:hidden].to_i) %>

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Hey this isn't bad

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:12:03 -0500

I’m posting this from my email. I think I like this idea. Very nice. Everyone should check out posterous.com I wonder how they are going to format this photo.

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Gmail just became much more cool... good bye facebook

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:24:32 -0500

Gmail just became much more cool... good bye facebook:

Yes that’s right. With the new Buzz from gmail, the only thing making me go back to facebook is the legacy users that hang out there.

Yup after using the standard “desert” them that...

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:39:49 -0500

Yup after using the standard “desert” them that comes with most standard gVim, I have finally made the choice to switch colorschemes. What to you might ask? Well this colorful - semi gray background theme called……. paintbox. You can find it here http://vimcolorschemetest.googlecode.com/svn/html/index-c.html

or save as this link

paintbox

I like this theme because I feel like a black background is a little bit too hard on the eyes but the black background themes always seem to have the good colors for text. I found this one which has great colors, your comments kind of fade out so they arn’t in the way, highlighting works good without making the text unreadable and it uses blue/green which is something like. If I was going to pick a dark background, I think I would like “dante” (thats also on the theme page).

Check it out!

Life is better with SuperTab and snipMate

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:14:15 -0500

Life is better with SuperTab and snipMate:

just go to google and look up snipmate and supertab for VIM

They are two of my fav plugins (of course, you need NERDtree, but can’t get past that). Supertab looks a lot better than it used to and works great with snipmate now, at least from what I can tell.

Well i’m back to using Vuze. Yup, that’s right. I...

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:28:54 -0500

Well i’m back to using Vuze.

Yup, that’s right. I used to be a small Torrent Transmission user, but after recent problems with the small C app on my macbook, I’m turning back to the larger Vuze (former Azureze). This go around has been better however. Vuze seems smaller, more lean and defiantly more stable. I’m impressed, although it kind of the big cahoona as far as installing goes. Granted, it’s still only 8mb, not bad.

I love this mix. RetsaM you guys are great :)

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:38:14 -0500

I love this mix. RetsaM you guys are great :)

Totally just went Chrome

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:53:20 -0500

Totally just went Chrome

The new tee's style, kind of interesting

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:23:34 -0500

The new tee's style, kind of interesting