Posted by Jim Morris
on Tue Nov 21 23:20:07 -0800 2006
OK after
expounding
on how much I like Epsilon as an editor, I finally hit a wall with it.
I wanted tabs of the currently open files, and it simply does not
provide that facility yet. (I know all modern editors do!). On X11 (IE
Linux and OS/X) Epsilon is not really a graphical app, it does open an
X11 window, but within it most dialogs and lists (like buffer lists
etc) are text, a little like a curses app. The advantage is it opens
really fast, and loads huge files pretty fast. The downside is you
don't get all those nice windowing facilities like movable pop-up
windows, dialogs, trees and tabs!
So after hearing so much about JEdit, I bit the bullet and gave it a
whirl. Following the instructions from a number of blogs (too numerous
to mention) I installed it on my KUbuntu Linux box, with all the
plugins people recommend, and of course the Ruby plugin and
SupperAbbrevs (The beta version), so I have my snippets!
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Posted by Jim Morris
on Wed Nov 15 14:04:28 -0800 2006
One of the things that bugs me about Capistrano is the requirement
that access to the remote subversion repository have the same path
from the local machine and the remote machine. This is never the case
in my experience.
I have been getting around it by setting the path to
svn://localhost/... and running ssh locally to port forward the SVN
port to the remote host. This sucks as I usually forget to run ssh in
another window first.
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Posted by Jim Morris
on Tue Nov 14 22:47:44 -0800 2006
Here is a good one, your users are complaining that they have spent 5
minutes filling in a web form, then lose it all by clicking on a link
away from the form, and back arrow doesn't restore the fields that
were entered. (At least on IE).
I saw an interesting design in the Rails Recipes book for saving form
data at regular intervals, but I didn't like the overhead of that one.
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Posted by Jim Morris
on Sun Oct 29 15:40:38 -0800 2006
This is a simple one, how do I set the focus in the first item in my form?
Put this in your app/helpers/application_helper.rb:
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Posted by Jim Morris
on Wed Oct 25 14:08:38 -0700 2006
I just ran into this little problem which kept me scratching my head
for quite a while. My flash message didn't show up on the next action.
I have a status page which polls a database for status using
periodically_call_remote, when the database reaches a certain state I
show a button which says the process is complete go to next step.
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Posted by Jim Morris
on Mon Oct 23 13:58:46 -0700 2006
I ran into this problem a few times,and I have seen others asking the
same question, if you use text_field_with_auto_complete and the
selection list returns non-unique results, how do you reference the
actual record in the database you want?
For instance if you have text_field_with_auto_complete :customer, :name
then in your controller: name= params[:customer][:name] and
Customer.find_all_by_name(name) returns more than one entry you need
to be a little more tricky to retrieve the actual record you wanted to
select.
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Posted by Jim Morris
on Tue Oct 17 23:45:47 -0700 2006
I ran into a problem using text_field_with_auto_complete in a view
where I wanted to have many of them created by an iteration. You can
use the :index option for the text_field, but it doesn't carry over to
the various divs used in the AJAX calls.
<typo:code lang="ruby">
<% 0.upto(10) do |legi| %>
<% @leg= @mission.legs.find(:first, :conditions => ['legnum = ?', legi]) %>
text_field_with_auto_complete( :leg, :name, {:index => legi, :size => 20})
<% end %>
<% end %>
</typo:code>
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Posted by Jim Morris
on Sat Sep 30 17:20:15 -0700 2006
I use Lugarus excellent Epsilon Editor for most of my
programming editing needs, on Win32 and Linux.
(An exception is for Java programming where I use Eclipse).
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Posted by Jim Morris
on Wed Aug 09 22:39:06 -0700 2006
I got a license for Komodo Pro,
(Komodo-Professional-3.5.3-262321-linux-libcpp5-x86) and started
trying to use it, I have the latest KUbuntu, with GTK installed so I
had no problems installing Komodo as far as libraries and requirements
were concerned, however running it had me stumped, I ran into
immediate problems (some of my own making I'll admit).
First I saw a stream of errors on the screen, they didn't seem fatal
but are annoying, for instance...
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Posted by Jim Morris
on Sat Jun 03 23:32:02 -0700 2006
I was using a ruby script to post my blogs from the command line, and
it used the xmlrpc/client which would occasionally fail with this
error...
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/xmlrpc/client.rb:546:in `do_rpc': HTTP-Error: 500 Internal Server Error (RuntimeError)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/xmlrpc/client.rb:420:in `call2'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/xmlrpc/client.rb:410:in `call'
from send2blog.rb:103
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