I found a fun gotcha! today with CruiseControl - if you create a custom cruise task you have to set the RAILS_ENV AND ENV["RAILS_ENV"] to test.
If you do not, CruiseControl will run against your production database. Before CruiseControl invokes it's own built-in cruise task it sets the RAILS_ENV to …
ChainReading is back, with all the data restored... I apologize again for the downtime, and promise I'll find some time to do some much needed and long promised improvements on the site.
As it stands currently, it should be back in the exact state it went down - but if anyone notices anything, missi…
I have been meaning to write an article about netbeans + ruby for awhile, and anyone who knows me has probably heard me talk about it - it's great, it's fast, and it actually just works. However, somebody else saved me the trouble, infrid over at http://lifeonrails.org wrote an epic post about it, …
Well that was fun! The server had a pretty severe hard drive failure - All the chainreading data was recovered and the site will be back soon. I apologize for the downtime, especially to those who had the CR javascript lists on their sites.
My blog was not so lucky though and I lost all the posts - …