WordPress installation
After years of writing and rewriting various blogging platforms without telling anyone, in various languages including Python, Ruby and PHP, and obsessing over various database backends such as...
View ArticleUsing Ruby to get a duplicate WordPress database
In almost all of my Rails projects, I write a Rake task to take a dump of the remote mysql database and copy it locally. I decided to do this for my WordPress installation as well, as I tend to test...
View ArticleSell your WordPress, Magento, Joomla themes on Superhug
Camel Punch‘s latest client project, Superhug, went into live beta recently. It’s a Rails-driven marketplace for Drupal, Expression Engine, Joomla, Magento, Tumblr and WordPress designs, as well as...
View ArticleUploading directly to Amazon S3 from a Rails application
The use cases for Superhug are heavy on uploading and downloading large(ish) files. Rails itself isn’t so well suited to this sort of task, and it’s best to keep state away from application servers...
View ArticleBrighton web development and design meetups
This past week, having finished a project and having a bit of free time to spare, I decided to do some digging and see what was going on in Brighton in terms of web development meetups. It turns out...
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Music piracy geocaching wins prize at Music Hack Day!
I had a fun time at Music Hack Day London 2010, despite only being there physically for the Saturday. The team, made up of Yves, Chris and myself, with camerawork provided by Patrick, created an...
View ArticleCheffin ain’t EZ for beginners
When I first set out to learn Chef I found that most of the blog posts, tutorials and even the Opscode Help pages themselves were a bit difficult to understand, to say the least. The ontology...
View ArticleAlways define controller action methods in Rails 3
This morning was spent puzzling over a strange hard-to-reproduce Cucumber test failure in a project I have been upgrading from Rails 2.3.x to 3.0.3. It was only occurring after certain steps had been...
View ArticleMake Solr / sunspot_rails, Cucumber and VCR bestest buddies
After spending the morning banging my head against another Cucumber problem, I thought the best way to spend an afternoon would be to run into another hilarious jape that Rails 3 threw at me. Since...
View Articlerespond_to ordering still causing havoc with Internet Explorer 7
At least a year ago, I ran into this guy’s problem. Today, I just ran into a similar situation with Rails 3’s class-level respond_to / instance-level respond_with pattern. I had the following...
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