http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota/10260 <pre>Hi. I'm recruiting for Drive Power (www.drvpwr.com). They just closed on $815K in angel financing, have revenue and have a couple of huge customers. Lots of great things going right now and they need a lead Rails Dev to really lead the charge on their web development efforts. Individuals should be top notch in skill level (we will ask for a code sample), easy to get along with and can easily communicate. Compensation is market + equity. Not too many funded startups in Mpls these days. Great opportunity... Sound like a fit? Drop me a line at mtnoble37-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org with your resume and links to any sample work. Thanks, Michael </pre> Andcor 2012-05-24T19:10:41 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota/10259 <pre>The following gig was posted by Michael Noble at or around 24 May 19:05: Blurb: Lead RoR Dev for Funded Startup Body: -- We are recruiting for Drive Power (www.drvpwr.com). The technology came out of The U, great team, just raised $815K in angel financing, have revenue and have a few huge clients. So...they are going places! They need a top notch, no joke, rockstar Rails developer to join their team and lead their web development efforts. Compensation is market + equity. If interested, send on your resume to Michael at mtnoble37(at)yahoo(dot)com. Thanks! -- Contact: mtnoble37-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org ---- If you don't want to receive these notifications, set your mail filters appropriately. You can do that, right? </pre> notifications-MFood+48flg< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-24T19:05:37 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota/10257 <pre>The following event was posted by Tony Collen (tonyc) at or around 16 May 16:31: Headline: No May Meeting Body: -- Since Memorial day is on the 28th (our normal meeting day), and JRubyConf (www.jrubyconf.com) is the week before, we're going to skip the May meeting. We may organize a hack night, stay tuned to this space (or the mailing list) for more info. -- Contact: tcollen-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org </pre> notifications-MFood+48flg< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-16T16:31:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota/10256 <pre>No meeting this month due to Memorial day on the 28th and JRubyConf the week before! Anyone want to organize a hack night? - Tony </pre> Tony Collen 2012-05-16T16:29:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota/10251 <pre>Just wondering if anyone else from Minnesota is planning on attending Chefconf next week. Mark </pre> Mark Wagner 2012-05-12T16:15:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota/10245 <pre>Hi, A few weeks ago I asked about rich-text editors. ckeditor was recommended by a couple of you guys. This seems like a nice one. Has anyone configured it to work with AWS? Currently it sticks the images in public/ckeditor_assets/pictures, and Heroku will balk at that. Thanks, Steve</pre> Steve Fox 2012-05-11T17:08:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota/10242 <pre>Hi, I have inherited a rails 2.0.2 app which I'm eventually going to rebuild as rails 3.2.x or whatever. The server it's running on is pretty old, too, and features a deprecated kernel. So, I transferred the app to a new vps while I set up a new app using rvm and all that. Everything is working as expected except for order processing. Orders are created, but emailing is failing. This piece is supposedly handled by bj, and it should 'just work.' No daemon running. Has anyone used bj recently? Here's the code in app/model/order.rb - lines 13 and 14 make the calls to Bj. http://pastie.org/3890331 And there is nothing exceptional in the logs, which I've set to debug. You can see the item added to the bj_job table: Bj::Table::Job Create (0.000398) INSERT INTO `bj_job` (`runner`, `started_at`, `is_restartable`, `submitted_at`, `submitter`, `tag`, `state`, `stderr`, `stdin`, `env`, `stdout`, `priority`, `finished_at`, `exit_status`, `command`, `pid`) VALUES(NULL, NULL, 1, '2012-05-10 16:17:44', 'elegantfoods.net', '', 'pending', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL, './script/runner app/jobs/order_notification.rb 21909', NULL) And it makes it in to the database mysql&gt; select * from bj_job where bj_job_id = 63879 \G *************************** 1. row *************************** bj_job_id: 63879 command: ./script/runner app/jobs/order_notification.rb 21909 state: pending priority: 0 tag: is_restartable: 1 submitter: elegantfoods.net runner: NULL pid: NULL submitted_at: 2012-05-10 16:26:25 started_at: NULL finished_at: NULL env: NULL stdin: NULL stdout: NULL stderr: NULL exit_status: NULL 1 row in set (0.00 sec) But it doesn't trigger anything to 1. send along an email and 2. flip the bj_job.state to 'finished.' Has anyone else set up Bj? Thanks, Steve</pre> Steve Fox 2012-05-10T16:48:21 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota/10239 <pre>Gang, A while back, the idea of holding a coderetreat (www.coderetreat.org) was brought up on the list, so -- The planets have aligned, and I'm excited to announce that on Saturday May 19, Corey Haines himself will be in town to host a coderetreat! "That's cool," you say, "but what the heck is coderetreat?" Coderetreat is a fun, day-long, intensive practice event focused on the fundamentals of software development and design. BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) with the development tools you need to write code using your chosen programming languages. Coderetreat is language-agnostic, so there's a good chance that you'll be able to get outside your comfort zone. This is a good thing! * When: Saturday May 19th from 8:30am to 5:30pm * Where: Code 42 Software (1 Main St SE #100, Minneapolis, MN) * Sign up: http://coderetreat-mn-2012.eventbrite.com/ While Coderetreat is a sponsored event (Code 42 Software is sponsoring the space and lunch), a $20 refundable deposit will guarantee your spot. Attendance is capped at 30 people. Please forward this and pass it on to whomever may be interested! - Tony </pre> Tony Collen 2012-05-09T14:39:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota/10238 <pre>The following gig was posted by Ben Provenzano at or around 09 May 13:41: Blurb: RoR Developer ASAP!! Body: -- Tarmac has an IMMEDIATE opportunity with an exceptional company in Downtown Minneapolis. We are looking for an established Ruby on Rails Developer who will be developing, implementing, and maintaining web-based application systems for their Legislative web sites and services. If you consider yourself a knowledgeable Ruby on Rails Developer, then this is the position for YOU! Position Title:Developer - Ruby on Rails Engagement:3-month contract Position Summary:Develops, implements, and maintains web-based application systems for the Legislative web sites and services. The qualified candidate will have extensive web development experience and be familiar with the standard development life cycle. This person will: •Assist in the development of our legislative web sites and web-based applications according to defined business and technology standards. •Have extensive experience with Ruby on Rails, MySQL, CSS, XML, JSON, Sass, Haml, and Git. •Monitor application performance and help scale site capacity to meet traffic demands performance. Reports To:Product Development Manager Coordinates With:Business Information IT Team Scope: •Work closely with the company’s development/project management teams and third party developers. •Develop web sites and web-based applications using the company’s SDLC. Specific Responsibilities: •Develop web sites and web-based applications based on business requirements/use cases compiled by project management team. •Develop technical design documents based on use cases generated by project management team. •Provide detailed documentation for all application components. •Coordinate task assignments with the development team (including third party resources). •Assist with recommendations on web platform architecture and tool selection Qualifications: •Exceptional customer service skills •Exceptional written and verbal communication skills •Bachelor’s Degree (related field a plus) •5-7 years web development experience Location:The position will be located in Minneapolis, MN. There will be opportunity to work from home on occasion. Contact: staffing-IxqU6+aXI4ichyv5y+ckYtBPR1lH4CV8&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org -- Contact: ben-IxqU6+aXI4ichyv5y+ckYtBPR1lH4CV8&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org ---- If you don't want to receive these notifications, set your mail filters appropriately. You can do that, right? </pre> notifications-MFood+48flg< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-09T13:41:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota/10227 <pre>Hi all, With the recent release of RubyMotion &lt;http://www.rubymotion.com/&gt; I'm wondering if anyone else in the group has started using it to build native iOS apps. I'm diving in head-first. This seems like a superior way to build mobile apps, period, without even getting into language debates: - Your ruby code is compiled to run within the ObjC runtime. - True native apps, with zero limitations on what iOS libs and frameworks you can use - *Interactive console that allows you to modify the app, LIVE, inside the simulator*. - Use your fav editor (use of xcode is actually discouraged) - Build, manage, and deploy your project using simple rake tasks I'll volunteer to present on the topic at a future meet up if there's enough interest. (Are you interested?) Also curious...do we have any experts on these topics in the group? - MacRuby - CocoaPods - Ruboto - people that have loaded the entirety of iOS framework documentation into their brain If you like screencasts, *the one to watch* is here&lt;http://pragmaticstudio.com/screencasts/rubymotion&gt; . Ben Damman (218) 206-2646 </pre> Ben Damman 2012-05-06T15:24:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota/10222 <pre>Hi Everyone! Last night at the meeting I spoke a bit about the KidsCodeCamp event we're having this month on Sunday, May 20. We have 50+ eager youth coming downtown to learn to program! We'd love it if you could join us for a couple free hours on Sunday to help mentor the kids, give them tips, look over their shoulders, and help debug their code. If you can join us, please go to the EventBrite page and sign up as a volunteer. http://kidscodecampmn.eventbrite.com/ In addition to volunteers, we are also looking for one or two potential speakers/teachers to lead a session. We have Corey Haines and Ron Evans on hand to teach sessions on Scratch and KidsRuby, but we also have some time in the afternoon available. If you have a topic you think the kids would be interesting in hearing, we'd love to have you on board! I'll even throw in a free conference pass to JRubyConf for your time and enthusiastic energy. Possible topics: Your First Sinatra Webapp, PyGame, simple graphics programming, Alice, or your area of interest! Finally, we are looking for some help to buy lunch and snacks for all the kids and volunteers, in the neighborhood of $500. If you or your business can help, please visit the Eventbrite page above and select the "Help Pay for Lunch!" ticket and enter a donation amount. JRubyConf will match $1 for every $1 you can donate. If we've reached our goal, the ticket will be marked as "Sold out." Thanks so much for helping us with KidsCodeCamp, it's sure to be a rewarding event for all involved! Here's hoping we can make this a regular event in MSP! /Nick </pre> Nick Sieger 2012-05-02T02:07:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota/10215 <pre>We're going to try this again, to see if we can get a better count for food and drinks for the April meeting. If you plan on coming to the meeting on Monday, please let us know. https://rubymn.eventbrite.com/ - Tony </pre> Tony Collen 2012-04-27T16:36:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota/10212 <pre>Thought a few of you might be interested in TI's Tech Day coming to St Paul next week. Registration is free. I'm getting more into embedded stuff lately, and there's several topics that interested me. Perhaps of the broadest general interest are two seminars on "Intro to Android" that talks about how it's structured and why it's interesting for embedded applications and "Android Development Environment" that talks about Google's and TI's toolchains for doing Android dev on TI processors. Once I'm a little further into all this embedded stuff I'll try to give a RUM talk about some of it, if there would be interest in such a thing. - Charlie </pre> Charles Oliver Nutter 2012-04-26T15:02:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota/10210 <pre>Hi all, Apologies in advance for the length. I'm having a really strange, intermittent problem with request.format on my Heroku app. I'm not sure if it's anything to do w/Heroku but figured I'd mention that it's running there up front. I have an iPhone app (Trazzler) that is using a Rails app on Heroku as its API server. The iPhone app is set up to only ever hit our api subdomain (api.trazzler.com). I am using the (awesome) AFNetworking iPhone networking library. The client code in the iPhone is configured to always supply an HTTP_ACCEPT header of "application/json" so all requests coming from the phone are JSON requests. This works 99% of the time from what I can see. Sadly, I do see some errors in Airbrake that so far I am unable to explain. The errors are all along the lines of: * "/app/app/views" * "/app/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/kaminari-0.13.0/app/views" The errors are not confined to any specific API endpoint. As you can see from the bolded portion of that error, Rails thinks it should be responding with HTML. Thankfully Airbrake logs enough data so I can see that is not the case: URL http://www.trazzler.com/contests/running_identifier HTTP_ACCEPT "application/json, */*" HTTP_USER_AGENT "com.trazzler.trazzler/3.0 (unknown, iPhone OS 5.0.1, iPhone, Scale/2.000000)" The HTTP_ACCEPT header appears to be correct. The UA tells me that this is definitely coming from my iPhone app. If I curl the same URL w/that same header, the response is fine every time. The URL shown above is disconcerting. The domain in this case is www.trazzler.com but as I mentioned earlier ALL iPhone requests are sent from the phone to api.trazzler.com. There is a before_filter in my app controller that redirects HTML requests from the api subdomain to www. def redirect_api_html_requests if request.subdomain == 'api' &amp;&amp; request.format.html? return redirect_to "http://www.trazzler.com#{request.path}" end end It would appear that this redirect is getting triggered and rerouting the api request to www. This should only happen if the request.format is HTML. That would seem to mesh with the MissingTemplate error since it was looking for an HTML template to respond with when there is none. Essentially everything seems to point at some strange misinterpretation of the HTTP_ACCEPT header in Rails that sometimes makes it want to respond with HTML to an 'application/json' request instead of responding with JSON. Again, this happens very rarely and is working fine in 99% of cases. I have been unable to reproduce this at all. Nothing so far sticks out at me as "special" about these app requests from any of the ones that are working. The only reason I even know it's happening is because Airbrake is logging these errors. Thanks! Brian McManus </pre> Brian McManus 2012-04-25T15:17:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota/10209 <pre>The new Minty Swift Linux has arrived! Swift Linux is now a lightweight derivative of Linux Mint Debian Edition! Swift Linux 0.2.0 is now available at http://www.swiftlinux.org. There are two plain vanilla editions, Diet Swift Linux and Regular Swift Linux. The new Silicon Valley Swift Linux joins Taylor Swift Linux, Minnesota Swift Linux, and Chicago Swift Linux in the lineup of special editions. Swift Linux is the best of all worlds! It combines the superior software, hardware, and codec support of Linux Mint with a lightweight and user-friendly interface inspired by Puppy Linux and antiX Linux. P.S. Swift Linux NEEDS more developers! The web site will point you to the bug tracking database, source code, instructions on getting started, build scripts, and checklists. </pre> Jason Hsu, Mr. Swift Linux 2012-04-25T02:34:21 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota/10190 <pre>This month's meeting is next week, Monday, April 30th at 7pm. Speakers this month: :3 We will be doing lightning talks this month. Anybody is welcome to sign up, either reply to this announcement or sign up on the whiteboard at the meeting. Talks will be limited to 5 minutes! Make it interesting and funny! As usual, Pizza and beer will arrive at 6:30. Show up and hack, code, socialize, and plot to take over the world. LOCATION: Refactr LLC 11 Fourth Street NE, Suite 300 Minneapolis, MN 55413 Our April sponsors: * The Foundation [1] - IT support &amp; repair for the creative industry. They fix things. Their goal is to get you back to work. On top of that, They're an Apple authorized service provider. If you don't want to mess around with a "genius" bar at a mall, They've got you covered. * Code 42, makers of CrashPlan [2]. Back up your data! * Refactr [3], generously lending us their space. [1] http://www.fndtn.com [2] http://www.crashplan.com [3] http://www.refactr.com </pre> Tony Collen 2012-04-23T20:52:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota/10183 <pre>Hi, Has anyone set up carrierwave to work without a database? My client had me set up a form for accepting online job applications. They didn't want to store anything but rather have it emailed to HR. Works fine. Created a nasty form and mailer and it works as expected. Now they want to allow the applicant to submit a resume if they have one to share, and it's been giving me some grief. First, it's an old app. rails 2.3.8 on ruby 1.8.7, so I installed carrierwave (this app has paperclip for handling images via aws3) 0.4-stable. When I first tried the upload, I continuously received the error: "You tried to assign a String or a Pathname to an uploader, for security reasons, this is not a llowed.\n\n If this is a file upload, please check that your upload form is multipart encoded." I checked the form_tag &lt;% form_tag(:controller =&gt; 'emailer', :action =&gt; 'sendmail', :id =&gt; 'application_form', :html =&gt; { :multipart =&gt; true} ) do -%&gt; (yes, this was.erb, I was not yet haml-ized until late 2008.) and the params {"html"=&gt;{"multipart"=&gt;"true"}, and finally decided to comment out the raise method in the source file: #raise CarrierWave::FormNotMultipart if new_file.is_path? and, no more of these exceptions. yay. Instead, I get errors when attempting to attach the file because the file isn't getting uploaded into tmp/ . Here's the code on the form: &lt;%= file_field_tag :uploaded_data %&gt;&lt;b&gt;Got a resume? Upload it&lt;/b&gt; I tried &lt;%= file_field '%&gt; as well, and putting the string into a hash and got the same result. Emailer controller: uploader = ResumeUploader.new #resume = File.open(File.join(Rails.root,"tmp/#{email['uploaded_data']}")) logger.debug "ONE uploaded data is #{params[:uploaded_data]} ... " uploader.store!(params[:uploaded_data]) uploader.filename logger.debug "TWO file name is #{uploader.filename}." I read someplace that for testing doing the File.join above helps with not-multipart error, but it can't find the file in tmp/ ... logger.debug one begets the expected result: uploaded data is steve_fox_resume.pdf ... logger.debug TWO disappoints: file name is . The next line in the logs is the model not finding the file to attach to an email: Errno::EISDIR (Is a directory - /Users/sfox/ruby/code/westfields_refresh/tmp) Nothing to find in tmp/ so it thinks I'm attempting to attach an entire directory. This app runs on heroku, and they're fine with me sticking something into tmp uh, temporarily. Thoughts? I would simply convert the form to run atop a model and connect to a db, but there are about one hundred fields on this form and such a conversion would be rather painful and odious: http://awesomescreenshot.com/0dd43x96c Any tips, corrections, or suggestions how to do this with carrierwave, paperclip, or just plain ol' ruby would be appreciated. Thanks, Steve </pre> Steve Fox 2012-04-23T17:01:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota/10166 <pre>I've tried to learn Ruby on Rails, but it didn't pan out. It felt like I had to properly align all the planets in order to make everything work. It's been suggested that I try learning Ruby first. The logic is that knowing Ruby would give me a better understanding of what Rails does and that it wouldn't feel quite so much like black magic. What are the best web sites and books for learning Ruby? Are there any that involve creating games? (I learned BASIC through games. I find that writing games is much more engaging than writing glorified "hello world" projects.) </pre> Jason Hsu, Mr. Swift Linux 2012-04-23T01:50:45 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota/10152 <pre>I've been pinged by a professor at Masaryk University in Czech Republic to put together a JVM course for students there. The course would involve 3-4 days of something like 6 hrs of material each day, then a quiet period where students go off to work on related projects, and then probably a follow-up to grade projects and connect with students. I may or may not go to the university to help teach the course. My problem is that he's asking me what I would want to be compensated for preparing this course material and for teaching the course. I have no idea how to valuate this work. I know professors don't get a great deal for teaching in the US, but I have no idea what that amount actually is, nor what it might be overseas, nor what would be fair and reasonable compensation for preparing course material of this nature. Any thoughts? - Charlie </pre> Charles Oliver Nutter 2012-04-17T07:40:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota/10132 <pre>Ruby.mn was registered 3/1/2006. The wayback machine started noticing ruby.mn in May of 2006: http://web.archive.org/web/20060518124007/http://ruby.mn/ Today, there are 443 members on the mailing list. All time top 10 posters: 195 Tom Brice (possibly due to sending out gig announcements) 127 tonyc 75 Chris Schumann 75 Charles Oliver Nutter 74 Bob Martens 72 Steve Fox 70 Jon Dahl 70 Luke Francl 61 Jared Mehle &lt; at &gt;Ruby.mn has 294 tweets, follows 316, and is followed by 431 others. </pre> mml 2012-04-16T14:31:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota/10124 <pre>Ladies (and Gentleman, that are guests of the ladies), You can get some FREE Training!! http://jrubyconf.com/news/2012/03/railsbridge Snippet From the Page: ---- We’re pleased to announce a very special RailsBridge workshop&lt;http://workshops.railsbridge.org/&gt; at JRubyConf! For those who don’t know, a RailsBridge workshop is a free, two-day outreach event targeted at women who want to learn to program. We’re also delighted to welcome Sarah Allen&lt;https://twitter.com/ultrasaurus&gt; to Minneapolis to lead the workshop. We will be taking you through every step in the process of deploying a Ruby on Rails application. Men are invited as guests of women attending. We are also looking for volunteers with programming experience! ---- Tell your Friends, Tell your Neighbors Mark P.S. :coderow is a proud sponsor of jRuby Conf </pre> Mark Wagner 2012-04-12T15:54:10 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.lang.ruby.region.minnesota