Having models in Rails plugins is a bad idea. If you need the model for your plugin - make a generator. Or extend AR::Base with class method that will extend user model to give it desired functionality.
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Updated SWFUpload (2.2.0-beta1) for WordPress 2.6.3
This patch fixes flash uploader for wordpress with installed flash 10.
Prologue
I've filed the request for attendance of Google Code Day in Moscow on September 1th. It should take place on October 28th. Yesterday I bought tickets.
Epilog
Today I got an e-mail from Google that says that there's no room left and I was not accepted. Thanks a lot.
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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The Sun gifted me glorious headphones. Sony MDR V700DJ. Sound is wonderful. Fit superbly. Thanks a lot!
Well, basically that’s all they do.
They have ruby, rubygems and a few gems installed. Also they have a control panel for managing ruby stuff. Have RubyGems manager. But it’s unable to list installed gems, unable to install gems. It’s completely broken. You have to hack a lot in terminal to have an opportunity to install and use other gems.
Next, they have a section for managing rails apps. It can create a new rails app. And… And that’s all. It can not even start that app. It doesn’t generates deploy config. It’s just useless.
BTW, they don’t even think about running mongrels/thins/ebbs/whatever. They are thinking about a single instance on fastcgi.
Next, support. They’re very polite but ignorant. “Is your computer turned on?”. As a solutions they give links to forums where users write “guides” and nothing from site5 itself.
Conclusion: get a slice for same money instead. You’ll be pleased.
BTW, with any VPS you’ll get an opportunity to run not only Rails apps but virtually anything. Like Merb apps.
Kill anybody who’ll write that in spec.
Specification: An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service.
I was reading ruby-core mailing list when I stumbled this message about
Improving the metaprogramming facilities of Ruby. It proposes to introduce some changes to Ruby spec regarding instance variables access. The problem is that almost any of proposed changes ends with the silly “the results … are undefined”. Even currently there’s no complete spec for Ruby. The only MRI is a “golden implementation” but still not fully documented and it still has its bugs. Thanks to guys from Ruby-Spec project for their effort on creating complete spec suit to ensure that all alternative implementations are compatible. Anyway, how implementations can be compatible if their behavior is undefined in some cases?
Side note: W3C should also eliminate any undefined behavior for implementations.
I’ve managed to load Mozilla into Pidgin converstaion.
Never put application configs in repository. Put there config examples with a explanations in comments instead. That will help users to configure the application better then rewriting teir config on each update.
PS: NDIA - Newer Do It Again
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