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01 September 2009

How to setup your client's billing on Heroku

01 September 2009

Step 1: from the command line; heroku sharing:add <client's email> <--app yourapp-production> (--app yourapp-production is only used if you have setup a staging heroku app and a production heroku app already)

Step 2: from the command line; heroku sharing:transfer <client's email> <--app yourapp-production> That will send the ownership of the app over. If they have not setup an heroku account, they should get an email to set one up.

Non-Rails projects

27 August 2009

East-Nashville.com

McFerrin Park

Hope Presbyterian Church

We will take any needful baby brought to us

25 August 2009

August 09 Nashville Ruby Meetup

21 August 2009

Christ died for the ungodly

19 August 2009

Trip to India

19 August 2009

I took a trip to India August 4 - 15, mostly to Delhi.  A friend and I were on an exploratory trip for Christian missions in Delhi. I have been to India twice before: once as a backpacking world-traveler in 2002, again as a honeymooner with wife in 2005. 

I was able to use my previous experience in India to help my friend Eric navigate Delhi on his first trip to India. We were wonderfully welcomed and hosted by Indian and Western Christians in the country, made good connections. I was encouraged by how many Christians back home were praying for us.  God was present and we were helped every day. One of my favorite parts was to be able to walk Indian streets and pray, "may Delhi be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea". 

Delhi is very far from being filled like that--but I believe I will see that day when it is covered with the knowledge of God's glory as the waters cover the sea. Now I'm back. If you have an Rails or website questions, call me: 615-354-4655.

In old Delhi in bicycle carriage with Eric Brown

09 August 2009

The Opryland hotel for Ruby Hoedown 2009 is amazing

08 July 2009

Let me encourage any Ruby programmer considering coming to Nashville for the Ruby Hoedown August 28-29: the Gaylord Opryland hotel is amazing.

To summarize the hotel:  imagine that Disney's imagineers captured Charleston/Savannah/New Orleans at their best, and put them under a giant glass case of climate-controlled, always-spring gardenland.  The inside of the hotel-land is a small city of walkways, gardens, restaurants, and bodies of water. It's really cool.

And the conference rate is a deep discount!  If you go online to book this hotel (7 weeks in advance as of this post), it's minimum $194/night at hotels.com or the oprylandhotels.com website.  (Searched for  August 27, 2 nights on July 8, 2009) So the hotel is a great value.

Paperclip, Amazon S3 for Rails file uploads

03 July 2009

I loved using the Rails plugin Paperclip along with Amazon's Simple Storage Service ('s3') to do file attachments and uploads in Ruby on Rails.

Here are some of the missing steps from using the Paperclip instructions at github and other places.

1) Your model (the one you are attaching file to) will need something like this:

has_attached_file :profile_pic,

  :styles => { :medium => "300x300>", :thumb => "100x100>" },

  :storage => :s3, :s3_credentials => "#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/amazon_s3.yml",

  :path => ":class/:id/:style.:extension"

leaving out the :path, caused a recursive 'stack level too deep' error for me.

2) add gem.config "right_aws" to your environmnent.rb file. Terminal: 'sudo rake gems:install' to install the gem

3) The default /config/amazon_sq.yml file misnames 'bucket_name', and needs to be called just 'bucket'. But overall, this is an amazing solution for file uploads in Rails.  Applause to thoughtbot, amazon, and the open source community that has worked on this.