Rubyists

I inherited an environment using a big bloated helpdesk application, Track-IT, and finally got fed up with it today. The replacement? Trac, using the new Trac beta with configurable ticket workflows. Here’s the little ruby (used a rails tree just for the autoloading magic and actionmailer) that took care of the glue which trac needed to be a full Track-IT replacement. That is, the ‘download mail from a pop box and make a ticket’.

I routinely build packages for my Solaris server. While building vim I ran in to a recurring problem of how to automate downloading patches via FTP. Read on for an example in ruby.

The other day, when I was working on upgrading our in-house rbot at the office, I found it a good opportunity to convert one of our old Mongrelized application services to Lighttpd+FastCGI. It is a service that deals with images in a queue that come in with our HylaFAX server. The total migration took about 15 minutes. The gains in speed and efficiency were enormous.

Testing a new blog client. Vimperator (mozilla plugin to give VIM modes in the web browser) isn’t playing well with typo’s real-time preview in posts; plus I wanted to see if desktop blogging was better than I experienced before (BloGTK). Drivel seems more minimal (I like that).

Using git://rubyists.com/gits/emash will get the most current code. Github will only be used for major releases.

How bout that typo? Love the easy install, but wish it wouldn’t be so mongrel-centric. eM.A.S.H. was able to successfully deploy a vanilla Typo install, only change necessary was to the installer/rails-installer.yml file to get rid of the high port specification.