Author Archives: Tom

Why is my KmlLayer in Google Maps v3 not working?

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Tom

If you use some code like this: <script type="text/javascript"> function initialize() { var options = { mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.SATELLITE, streetViewControl: true }; var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map'), options); var kmlLayer = new google.maps.KmlLayer('http://127.0.0.1:3000/kmlfile.kml'); kmlLayer.setMap(map); } function loadScript() { var script = … Continue reading →

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Force file_column to regenerate the thumbnails

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Tom

A small post to show how to let file_column to regenerate the already generated thumbnails. def update_attributes(att) self.path = File.new(self.path, "r") self.save super(att) end When you put this piece of code in the model where the file_column is used, the … Continue reading →

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VMware ESXi 4.0 + QNAP TS-410

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Tom

I’ve updated my server setup at home with some new hardware. First of all a new QNAP TS-410 NAS with 4 Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB disks attached to the NAS. For my new server I will use an old … Continue reading →

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Ruby on Rails MiniWiki plugin released

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Tom

To create a wiki in a Ruby on Rails app, I’ve created a plugin called: MiniWiki. With 3 simple steps it is possible to add a very basic wiki to your application. The only dependency is RedCloth and the generator … Continue reading →

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SWFUpload direct to Amazon S3 in Ruby on Rails

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Tom

I’m working on various projects and for one certain project this company wanted a file sharing website, like yousendit.com for example, but the site should be in-house. I proposed Amazon S3 for the storage of the files, otherwise the VPS … Continue reading →

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XEN, Ruby Enterprise Edition and 4gb seg fixup

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Tom

My new CentOS XEN server has a virtual machine which serves as a dedicated web server. The on the console and in /var/log/messages the following message appeared: 4gb seg fixup, process ruby (pid 20252), cs:ip 73:00e0a636 printk: 151939 messages suppressed. … Continue reading →

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Capistrano and Passenger part 2

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Tom

As Karl Varga pointed out in his comment on my previous post on Capistrano and Passenger (here) my apache rewrite rules did not send back the proper HTTP status codes. Now with the improved and tested rules the 503 status … Continue reading →

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Namespace route and form_for method

Posted on June 29, 2008 by Tom

When you have a namespace in your routes.rb like this: map.namespace :admin do |admin| admin.resources :users end And you like to have a form like this: <% form_for(@user) do |f| %> <%= f.error_messages %> Change the form_for in this and … Continue reading →

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Gem 1.2.0 released

Posted on June 24, 2008 by Tom

Yesterday gem 1.2.0 was released. This is a release we’ve all been waiting for! This version doesn’t have the ‘bulkupdate’ and doesn’t consume that much memory as before. So update your gem for the last time with the -B parameter. … Continue reading →

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Capistrano and Passenger

Posted on June 23, 2008 by Tom

To use Capistrano on a Passenger enabled host, you need to add the following lines to your config/deploy.rb file. namespace :deploy do desc "Restarting mod_rails with restart.txt" task :restart, :roles => :app, :except => { :no_release => true } do … Continue reading →

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