Rails Lectures at Depaul

Last semester at Depaul University I had the opportunity to give 2 lectures on Ruby on Rails. The topics were “Rails Hosting & Deployment” and “Rails Security”. It was an awesome experience and really rewarding to talk about something that I am passionate about. A big thanks to Igor Polevoy who introduced and recommended me to the Depaul staff.

Here is a copy of the PowerPoint I used on the lecture for Rails Hosting & Deployment.

Nov 03, 2009 | Software | Leave A Comment »

jruby-quartz 1.1 released

Update: jruby-quartz is a gem at http://rubygems.org/gems/jruby-quartz

I just released jruby-quartz 1.1 on github. Notable changes include support for programmatically firing a job from the base job scheduler instead of relying solely on the scheduled job pool. As a side note, I just realized that github has temporarily stopped building gems since they’ve moved to Rackspace. So if you’re looking to use gem install, you are out of luck until they re-write that system.

Nov 03, 2009 | Software | 1 Comment »

MySQL fix for activerecord-jdbc-adapter 0.9.2

About 2 months back I was working on getting a db dump on my current project. I noticed a bunch of the primary keys were missing from tables in the dump file. Irked, I observed that many of tables we hook up to have residual Java Hibernate-isms with non-standard primary keys, basically not ‘id’.

After some digging I found a little problem with activerecord-jdbc-adapter, so I submitted a patch. The good news is that my patch has been included in the latest release. Thanks to Nick Sieger and the gang for including it.

== 0.9.2
- The main, highly awaited fix for this release is a solution to the
  rake db:create/db:drop issue. The main change is a new 'jdbc' rails
  generator that should be run once to prepare a Rails application to
  use JDBC. The upside of this generator is that you no longer will
  need to alter database.yml for JDBC. See the README.txt for details.
- Cleanup and reconnect if errors occur during begin/rollback
  (Jean-Dominique Morani, Christian Seiler)
...
- Fix for mysql tables with non standard primary keys such that the schema dump is correct (Nick Zalabak)

Nov 03, 2009 | Software | Leave A Comment »