andy goundry » Uncategorized http://www.andygoundry.com web developer Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:01:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Quick ref – Kernel.const_get and .constantize http://www.andygoundry.com/2011/07/26/quick-ref-kernel-const_get-and-constantize/ http://www.andygoundry.com/2011/07/26/quick-ref-kernel-const_get-and-constantize/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:27:45 +0000 andy http://www.andygoundry.com/?p=503 Just a quick ref. If you have a string that matches a class name in your app, you can use that string to interact with that model. Here’s how:

string = “User”

string.constantize OR Kernel.const_get(string) – the former only works in rails (as it’s part of ActiveSupport::Inflector)

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* I moved to the Cedar stack. Without this, I struggled to get rake db:migrate to work

heroku create --stack cedar

* I now face the issue that heroku is reporting “no such file to load — pg”. Can’t install that locally as Lion’s screwed up my ruby header files so gem fails to install. Bored, so will leave this for now. Will report back as i find a solution, and the will to dig.

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At one point, it runs a command using sudo, so it will ask for your password. After the script has finished, ImageMagick will be installed. Now, to install the RMagick gem…

sudo gem install rmagick
]]> http://www.andygoundry.com/2011/06/06/the-quick-way-to-install-imagemagick-and-rmagick-on-os-x-snow-leopard/feed/ 0 Furthering the quest to *get* agile http://www.andygoundry.com/2009/04/15/furthering-the-quest-to-get-agile/ http://www.andygoundry.com/2009/04/15/furthering-the-quest-to-get-agile/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:40:52 +0000 andy http://www.andygoundry.com/?p=332 My academic learning focus has been a bit off recently, what with the amount of work i’ve had on. But, no excuses – my quest to grasp the academic history of agile delivery is taking steps forward, with my digging into DSDM. I’ve decided to focus on DSDM due to its UK-centricity, which I feel will have the greatest short term impact. I’ll get to SCRUM, XP, RUP, et al when i get to them.

I started the quest ages ago and have progressed it, but more in practice than in reading. Now’s the time for the reading to pick up again…

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This relates to a post i made about security as a sense of stability at work.

My rough summary: Enjoy your work, feel secure, or make a change! Don’t accept any less!

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]]> http://www.andygoundry.com/2008/12/02/baby-20/feed/ 0 Merb & Adobe Air File Uploader – Nice! http://www.andygoundry.com/2008/10/29/merb-adobe-air-file-uploader-nice/ http://www.andygoundry.com/2008/10/29/merb-adobe-air-file-uploader-nice/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:32:58 +0000 andy http://www.adveho.net/?p=133 Whilst writing an Adobe Lightroom plugin to upload library items to a rails app, i spotted something i definitely need to play with! Adobe Air and Merb file uploader. Looks rather handy!

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