http://www.ucron.upstrat.com a ruby programmer's insights on the objects of this world Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:19:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Have you ever run into the problem in Rails Metal where AJAX Requests just choke? When you try and debug the error response, it would stupidly reply "parseerror". After a long fought war with the browser that they call IE7, I discovered that this happens due to the Content-Type response header. ... http://www.ucron.upstrat.com/2009/09/24/ie7-xmlhttprequest-parseerror-problem/ I ran into this error earlier, and I got to tell you, this is really one puzzling error message. Basically I have the code in my routes that does this: map.resource :account, :name_prefix => 'doctor_', :path_prefix ... http://www.ucron.upstrat.com/2009/08/19/rails-232-object-not-missing-constant-xxx/ If you're using acts_as_solr and not disabling it on your tests, or want to enable or disable it selectively, try my fork of mattmatt-acts_as_solr on http://github.com/cyx/acts_as_solr. In a nutshell, you put this in your test_helper: ActsAsSolr::Post.strategy :fake Then in your tests where you want to enable and disable it after just do (assuming ... http://www.ucron.upstrat.com/2009/06/08/acts-as-solr-3x-performance-boost-on-tests/ http://www.ucron.upstrat.com/2009/05/27/phrug-presentation/ Since Rails 2.3 is the only Ruby 1.9 compatible version of rails, and shoulda hasn't yet made the move to support Rails 2.3, I'm gonna play a little waiting game and try and let the guys at thoughtbot update shoulda. I also asked them if they could give me any ... http://www.ucron.upstrat.com/2009/04/27/waiting-for-shoulda-to-work-with-rails-23/ Since I'm slowly (but surely) making the move to ruby 1.9 each day, I discovered that starling doesn't work with ruby 1.9, and most probably, it never will.The guys at twitter have moved to kestrel for a time now, so I guess that's the best move for me as well. ... http://www.ucron.upstrat.com/2009/04/27/switching-to-kestrel-from-starling/ Marcel Molina just upgraded his copy on github. Check it out here: http://github.com/marcel/aws-s3/tree/master http://www.ucron.upstrat.com/2009/04/23/aws-s3-now-ruby-19-compatible/ I've been trying to update to ruby 1.9. So far here are some notes: Amazon S3 I patched it myself. here it is: http://github.com/cyx/aws-s3 Blackbook Found a Ruby1.9 compatible version at http://github.com/cheald/blackbook/tree/master http://www.ucron.upstrat.com/2009/04/15/the-long-and-winding-road-to-ruby-19/ http://www.ucron.upstrat.com/2008/04/18/widgets-ftw/ Recently I've encountered several instances wherein my Dock crashes (by crashing I mean hovering over it doesn't show and doing Command + Tab doesn't switch applications)Up till recently I've just been doing a restart but since I got tired of doing it always I tried hijacking it the *nix ... http://www.ucron.upstrat.com/2008/03/07/mac-os-x-leopard-dock-crashes/