If you have equal read/write then Hash

And forget for OpenStruct

Here is why and how I benchmark all those methods



ActiveSupport::SecureRandom.hex(16)

Currently to start with Rails you have to learn a lot of stuff which are added just now and is not sure how long they will stay.

Also Rails is not targeting the developers to be fast but is targeting to be the perfect framework.

The price for that is that almost a year and a half there is no new version while the they refactor it.

No goodies like scafolding, only enterprise stuff around.

That is my personal opinion on this framework.

As I like to say – you cant leave your followers without food for such long time.

<%= select(“city”,”kind”, t(:place_types).map.map!.each{|key, value| [value, key]}, {:include_blank => t(:chose), :selected => @city.kind}) %>

The bad code

t(:place_types).map.map!.each{|key, value| [value, key]}, {:include_blank => t(:chose), :selected => @city.kind})

the replacement

key_values = t(:place_types).collect{|key, value| [value.to_s, key.to_s, ]}

Rails.ouch.ouch.omg!

The first time I saw this gem  I was very excited about it.

With only a few lines of code an you have the whole search done. I have start using it.

Once I want to apply it to a complicated search. The problem was that I have to write more code and “patches” in order to keep the Searchlogic working….

So my advice is – don’t use such boosters if you can apply your own solution. There will be aways a time when you want to extend your search and you will loose a lot of time search how to do it with the 3rd party solution.

Do it yourself.

RMagick2.so: This installation of RMagick was configured with ImageMagick 6.5.5 but ImageMagick 6.5.7-8 is in use. (RuntimeError)

google for This installation of RMagick was configured with ImageMagick 6.5.5 but ImageMagick 6.5.7-8 is in use. (RuntimeError)

then found this page in mixed English/Chinees

and finally got a page in German :)

Then I decide to write this post in English and slightly modify the solution

instead of putting

RMAGICK_BYPASS_VERSION_TEST = true in the deploy.rb

I have put this in the development.rb

and all it works – this way on the production I will be forced to use real compatible library or at least check again for another solution or gem.

AUCH! This solution doesn’t work even in development I got weird core dumps :( …so here it is another try

Here is the real working  solution:

su -
git clone http://github.com/rmagick/rmagick.git
cd rmagick/
ruby setup.rb
ruby setup.rb  install

Then I read the class – it was ugly.

here is the before

def validate
 return if is_email == false
 found = InternetComunicatorType.find(:first, :conditions => {
 :is_email => true,
 })

 return unless found

 if found.id != id
 errors.add(:is_email, "We have already email type")
 return
 end
end

here is the after

def validate
  if is_email
    found = InternetComunicatorType.find(:first, :conditions => {
      :is_email => true,
    })

    if found and found.id != id
      errors.add(:is_email, "We have already email type")
    end
  end
end

The result is much far readable

How it works with controllers, does it plays nice with nested attributes, such things.

Here is presentation of mongo  and here are some slides

Then I give a try with mongoid. It has wonderfull documentation for starters also it seems at first glance that the code in mongoid is more readably and human friendly. It took me 2hours to port all my models to mongoid.

The guy developing mongoid seems pretty active.

last words – it is pleasure to work with mongoid – I recommend it to all.

http://github.com/timcharper/spork

How to fix the Missing error

http://chrisblunt.com/blog/2009/08/28/rails-configuring-rspec-for-spork/

“accept(): Too many open file” and memcached dies.

After 1 day investigating the problem  we have found that the following line in the initializers is causing the problem

RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.level = Logger::DEBUG

We havent investigating deeper but when commenting this line everything works fine.

We have tested with Rails 2.3.2 and 2.3.3 with memcache-client-1.7.4

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Resolution
• cvt 1680 1050 75
• xrandr –newmode …the output from cvt
  xrandr –newmode “1680x1050_75.00″ 187.00 1680 1800 1976 2272 1050 1053 1059 1099 -hsync +vsync
• xrandr –addmode DVI-0 1680x1050_75.00

Lenovo Y510

You have to install the latest alsa.

Then replace the existing kernel modules with the just build one. Then run depmod -a as point kilbasar here

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=687663&page=2

sudo su
cd /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/ubuntu/media/snd-hda-intel/
mv snd-hda-intel.ko snd-hda-intel.ko.bak
ln -s /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-intel.ko /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/ubuntu/media/snd-hda-intel/snd-hda-intel.ko
cd /usr/src/alsa/alsa-driver-1.0.16rc2/modules
cp * /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/sound/
depmod -a

Logitech Revolution MX

http://x4.6times7.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/devlog/blog/howto_logitech_mx_revolution_on_ubuntu

• The mouse wheel control
  • Download from here http://goron.de/~froese/revoco/ or revoco-0.5.tar
  • make
  • sudo ./revoco manual=6
  • lets try to add it in ~/.xprofile next time
    

• Here is my xorg.conf

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "External DVI"
 # 1680x1050 74.89 Hz (CVT 1.76MA) hsync: 82.31 kHz; pclk: 187.00 MHz
 Modeline "1680x1050_75.00"  187.00  1680 1800 1976 2272  1050 1053 1059 1099 -hsync +vsync
 # 1680x1050 59.95 Hz (CVT 1.76MA) hsync: 65.29 kHz; pclk: 146.25 MHz
 Modeline "1680x1050_60.00"  146.25  1680 1784 1960 2240  1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync
 # 1680x1050 69.88 Hz (CVT) hsync: 76.58 kHz; pclk: 174.00 MHz
 Modeline "1680x1050_70.00"  174.00  1680 1800 1976 2272  1050 1053 1059 1096 -hsync +vsync
 Option "PreferedMode"    "1280x1024_75.00"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier    "Configured Screen Device"
 Device    "Configured Video Device"
 SubSection "Display"
 Depth    24
 Modes "1680x1050" "1024x768" "640x480"
 Virtual    2960 1050
 EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Device"
 Identifier    "Configured Video Device"
 Option    "Monitor-DVI-0" "External DVI"
EndSection

My Development setup commands

I noticed simillar post here

sudo aptitude install mc vim subversion screen pidgin meld curl links2 vim-ruby vim-gnome vim-doc vim-scripts vim-ruby vim-perl \
subversion git-core bluefish kompozer\
libmysqlclient15off libmysqlclient15-dev mysql-common mysql-client \
libmysql-ruby1.8 irb ruby1.8 rdoc ri rake \
apt-utils build-essential ruby1.8-dev mysql-server memcached libxslt1-dev libpcre3-dev zlib1g-dev unzip gzip mytop openssl \
libopenssl-ruby libmagick9-dev imagemagick librmagick-ruby1.8 imagemagick librmagick-ruby-doc  libmagick9-dev ruby1.8-dev \
libdbd-sqlite3-ruby libsqlite3-ruby sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev

ln -s /usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/bin/ruby

mkdir ruby_install
cd ruby_install
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/60718/rubygems-1.3.5.tgz
tar xzvf ruby*
cd rubygems-1.3.5
ruby setup.rb
cd ..
cd ..

ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/bin/gem

gem install rails mysql mongrel mongrel_cluster rails paperclip will_paginate andand \
json feed-normalizer hpricot mechanize ruby-debug uuid ruport ruport-util acts_as_reportable \
rufus-scheduler annotate openwferu-scheduler production_log_analyzer capistrano-ext libxml-ruby twitter capistrano wirble RedCloth
rspec-rails sqlite3-ruby \
--no-ri --no-rdoc

gem install rmagick -v 1.15.12
ruby -rrubygems -e "require 'RMagick'; puts Magick::Long_version;"

cat > /home/guda/.irbrc
require 'rubygems'
require 'wirble'
Wirble.init
Wirble.colorize
require 'logger'
if ENV.include?('RAILS_ENV') && !Object.const_defined?('RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER')
Object.const_set('RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER', Logger.new(STDOUT))
end

Gmail notification

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/10/06/gmail-notifier-applets-for-ubuntu/

What about http://ubuntu-tweak.com/

require ‘find’
namespace :mysql do
desc “Perform mysql dump on the RAILS_ENV environment”
task :dump => :environment do
db_config = ActiveRecord::Base.configurations[RAILS_ENV]
backup_file = “#{db_config['database']}.sql”
cmd = “mysqldump -u #{db_config['username']} -p#{db_config['password']} -Q –add-drop-table -O add-locks=FALSE -O lock-tables=FALSE #{db_config['database']} -r #{backup_file}”
puts cmd
sh cmd
end

desc “imports the dumped database in the mysql FILE”
task :import => :environment do |t, args|
version = ENV["FILE"] ? ENV["FILE"].to_i : nil
raise “FILE is required” unless version

db_config = ActiveRecord::Base.configurations[RAILS_ENV]
backup_file = ENV["FILE"]
sh “mysql -u #{db_config['username']} -p#{db_config['password']} -e \”CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS #{db_config['database']}\” ”
sh “mysql -u #{db_config['username']} -p#{db_config['password']} #{db_config['database']} < #{backup_file}”
end

desc “runs the mysql console for the selected RAILS_ENV”
task :console => :environment do
db_config = ActiveRecord::Base.configurations[RAILS_ENV]
backup_file = “#{db_config['database']}.sql”
cmd = “mysql -u #{db_config['username']} -p#{db_config['password']} #{db_config['database']}”
sh cmd
end

end

The task dumps just make a mysql dump from the current environment. Hmm. The next step is to transfer it with scp to my host.

Grab from here the mysql console task

Debian/Ubuntu

 sudo aptitude install libmysqlclient-dev libmysql-ruby  libmysql++-dev ruby-dev

end

module ClassMethods
def a_class_method
“You called a_class_method_from_module on #{self}”
end

def b_class_method
puts “b_class_metbod”
end

end

class MyClass
include InstanceMethods
extend ClassMethods

def MyClass.a_class_method
puts “Mine class Method”
end

def an_instance_method
puts “Mine instance”
end
end

my_class = MyClass.new
puts my_class.an_instance_method
puts MyClass.a_class_method
puts MyClass.b_class_method

I will publish my configurations in case they are helpfull to some one.

guda@guda-desktop:~/system3/config$ cat seesaw.yml
---
restart_cmd: sudo kill -HUP `cat /usr/local/nginx/logs/nginx.pid`
config_symlink: http_cluster/cluster.conf
mongrel_config_path: /home/mongrel/system3/current/config/mongrel_cluster.yml
config_path: /home/mongrel/system3/current/config
config_files:
  all: cluster_all.conf
  1: cluster_1.conf
  2: cluster_2.conf
symlink_cmd: ln -sf

here is where my nginx conf link points

guda@guda-desktop:~/system3/config/http_cluster$ ls -l
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 guda guda 152 2008-11-07 17:17 cluster_1.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 guda guda 152 2008-11-07 17:17 cluster_2.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 guda guda 277 2008-11-07 17:17 cluster_all.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 guda guda  66 2008-11-08 01:30 cluster.conf -> /home/mongrel/system3/current/config/http_cluster/cluster_all.conf

and in deploy.rb I have this task rewritten.

set :seesaw_conf, "#{current_path}/config/seesaw.yml"
namespace :deploy do
  desc <<-DESC
  Restart the Mongrel processes on the app server using seesaw
  DESC
  task :restart, :roles => :app do
    run <<-CMD
      cd #{current_path} ; #{mongrel_rails} seesaw::bounce -C #{seesaw_conf}
    CMD
#    send(run_method, "cd #{current_path}; #{mongrel_rails} seesaw::bounce -C #{seesaw_conf}")
  end
end

I am not sure that this is the perfect way of configurating the seesaw. I think that I have some mistakes in the path configurations, and because of that I have to patch the capistrano restart task.

Add this line in sources.list to get rails > 1.8.5 in rails etch

deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free
# deb ftp://ftp.nz.debian.org/backports etch-backports main contrib non-free
apt-get install debian-backports-keyring
aptitude update

# some ruby stuff
aptitude install -t etch-backports ruby1.8-dev libmysqlclient15off libmysqlclient15-dev mysql-common mysql-client libmysql-ruby1.8

# some system utils/libs
aptitude install apt-utils build-essential mysql-server mysql-common mysql-client memcached libxslt1-dev libpcre3-dev zlib1g-dev unzip gzip mytop  openssl

aptitude install -t etch-backports libopenssl-ruby

# gems
gem install rails mongrel mongrel_cluster -y

check this step-by-step

Image magick linux howto – http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install2-linux.html

aptitude install libmagick9-dev  imagemagick librmagick-ruby1.8 imagemagick librmagick-ruby-doc  libmagick9-dev ruby1.8-dev

# for version 1 of imagemagick we use this rmagick, else try it without the -v
gem install rmagick -v 1.15.12 

# lets test it
> irb
require 'rubygems'
require 'RMagick'
Magick::CenterGravity
puts Magick::Long_version

# or with 

ruby -rrubygems -e "require 'RMagick'; puts Magick::Long_version;" 

I love this tutorial on rubyinside


class String

end


Very nice tutorial for rails 2.1 caching.

API references: Fragments, Sweepers, the Store

Post how to move the page cache in a folder with some server examples

Observing Controllers with Sweepers

Here is described how you can use the Sweepers to observe controller actions. I totaly agree that the documenation is very bad on the sweepers and it is like a rule book of MTG than usefull rdoc.

Here is what I have found on the naming of the callbacks.

Checking the source code in sweeping.rb shows that the callbacks that are used for the controller are constructed in this way:

controller_callback_method_name = "#{timing}_#{controller.controller_name.underscore}"
action_callback_method_name = "#{controller_callback_method_name}_#{controller.action_name}"

This means that the method which will be called in the sweeper will be named

• after/before_user – for the controller UserController
• after/before_user_login – for the action login in the controller UserController

Here is an example.

class Dagens::UserController < Dagens::BaseController
  cache_sweeper DagensAgentSweeper, :only => [:do_login, :do_delete_account, :do_logout]
  def do_login
  end
  ....
end

class DagensAgentSweeper < ActionController::Caching::Sweeper
  observe DagensAgent

  def after_user_do_login
    puts "after do login \n \n \n \n \n \n \n "
    expire_cache_for(@logged_user)
  end
end

Skipping callbacks from an observer

I know that it is not good idea, but some times there is no time/way to do skip it. I have found a plugin and this post here. I have choose to use the second one in my project. Here is the example

class DagensAgentSweeper < ActionController::Caching::Sweeper
  observe DagensAgent

  def self.skip_callback(callback, &block)
    method = instance_method(callback)
    remove_method(callback) if respond_to?(callback)
    define_method(callback) { true }
    result = yield
    remove_method(callback)
    define_method(callback, method)
    result
  end
........
end

And later in the controller….model…

      DagensAgentSweeper.skip_callback(:after_update) do
        @agent.shown_times += 1
        @agent.save
      end

timed_fragment_cache

Some patches on the timed_fragment_cache plugin.

Note how Jolyon Says suggest to expire the cache when you have time zone : when_fragment_expired ‘tags_home_page’, Time.now + 10.minutes do

I have notice that timed_fragment_cache (or the patch) have a problem with expiring the cache from the controller. In the documenation it is stated that it is ok to expire the cache only in the controller with

when_fragment_expired  "_last_update",  Time.now + 1.minutes  do

and there is no need to expire it in the view, but you MUST expire it in the view.

cache "_last_update" do

must be

cache "_last_update", Time.now + 1.minutes  do