Monthly Archives: July 2007

ActiveScaffold and Mongrel death in production

Oh, I have such love for plugins that copy files around in production. I especially love it when the Rails app doesn’t have permission to write to the filesystem — why would it in production? — and Mongrel simply goes away. Running Mongrel without backgrounding it with start-stop-daemon reveals the trickery in action.

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mootools v1.11, ajax evalScripts and Tips bugs

Mootools v1.11 as shipped has a few bugs I came across. I was assured there couldn’t be any, as it’s been out for a while.

[Mon Jul 16 2007] [15:36:10] JasonBoxatWork: Whoah, you get to box at work, Jason.
[Mon Jul 16 2007] [15:36:11] NICE.
[Mon Jul 16 2007] [15:36:21] * JasonBoxatWork laughs
[Mon Jul 16 2007] [...]

Flash Upload Progress for Rails with FancyUpload for mootools

There are a ton of possible upload progress solutions for Web applications that need them. I had been using the upload progress that came with Merb, but I had modify mup.js to make Ajax calls using mootools instead of Prototype. Ultimately the progress status wasn’t updating consistently, so I sought a pure mootools [...]