http://itsignals.cascadia.com.au Musings on Ruby, Rails, C++ and whatever else Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:57:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last year I decided to build a new development server running a number of Virtual Machines. After spending two days hitting myself over the head with OpenSuse + Xen and coming away bloodied and bruised, I decided to give Ubuntu + KVM a go. So far I have been very ... http://itsignals.cascadia.com.au/?p=28 I've been using rspec for my testing for some now and have played around the edges with rspec user stories. When I started working on a new application a month or two ago I thought it would be a great opportunity to revisit my testing approach and my testing toolkit. ... http://itsignals.cascadia.com.au/?p=30 For anyone struggling to get SQL Anywhere working with Rails there is some good news, I've received and email from Eric Farrar from Sybase to let me know that he has been doing a lot of work on developing a new adaptor for SQL Anywhere. I've included the content of ... http://itsignals.cascadia.com.au/?p=29 As discussed in the Rails and Sybase Adapative Server Anywhere (SQLAnywhere) article I had to modify the odbc_adapter.rb code to allow the adapter to be used with my SybaseASA DB. Making the change to the adapter code directly is not an acceptable solution and until the developers of the adapter apply ... http://itsignals.cascadia.com.au/?p=26 In a previous article (Sybase DB Adapter) I wrote how I tried to install the Sybase adapter in an attempt to get access to an existing SybaseASA 9.0.2 DB. After doing some research I found that this adapter only works for the Enterprise edition of Sybase (i.e. SybaseASE). So I needed to ... http://itsignals.cascadia.com.au/?p=25  Update: This adapter only works with the enterprise edition of Sybase (i.e. Sybase ASE) not with SQLAnywhere (Sybase ASA) One of my Rails projects require me to connect to a Sybase ASA database, I quickly figured out that I needed to install the sybase adapter as in Rails 2.0.2 these and ... http://itsignals.cascadia.com.au/?p=23 We have been using the refresh_to plugin in one of our projects. For those who do not know, the refresh_to plugin adds a refresh_to method to the ActionController::Base which allows us to avoid the IE security warnings when moving from a secure SSL page to an insecure page. We are using ... http://itsignals.cascadia.com.au/?p=22 I've now completed the SMERF web site. On the site you will find details about SMERF including documentation, download information and so on. To go to the site now click on this link. http://itsignals.cascadia.com.au/?p=21   Update 11 January 2008: SMERF web site completed. I'm happy to announce the release of SMERF V0.0.1! I'm still in the process of setting up the official web site but the source is now available for download. The README file contains a lot of information about the plugin including installation and configuration notes. You ... http://itsignals.cascadia.com.au/?p=20   Update 11 January 2008: SMERF web site completed. Update 9 January 2008: SMERF Released!  Update 8 January 2008: I've completed the documentation and testing. I've created a project on RubyForge which is waiting approval. If this is not ready by tomorrow I will make an alternate link available for download, so if all ... http://itsignals.cascadia.com.au/?p=19