I ran into a problem installing Rails on XP and decided to do it manually.  Luckily there’s support for this and it’s documented here.  Simply download the listed gems and install in the recommended order.  Scroll down to the “Manual Installation” section of the link above.  You’ll need to download each gem and then run [...]

I recently helped another developer who was trying to integrate JavaScript with Flash. I recommended using ExternalInterface and pointed him to a couple of links. He emailed me a few hours later saying he had everything linked in, but couldn’t get the example to work correctly. After troubleshooting the problem I realized [...]

So I broke down and decided to run one of my beta apps on GoDaddy’s new Rails account.  I was extremely pleased to see that GoDaddy offers Rails hosting, but it turns out there’s a lot to be done from a configuration standpoint.
On the GoDaddy site it mentions they use FastCGI, but when I looked [...]

If you’ve worked with layouts in Rails then you’re most likely familiar with @content_for_layout, which basically substitutes the output of your view into the layout file. I was digging around earlier for some more information file and ran into an article talking about how is preferred to . I can’t seem to dig [...]

Just a quick post to say that we launched the new SensorLogic site earlier this week.  It’s clean, simple, and does a better job of conveying what we actually do.  Check out the solutions page to understand what markets we’re targeting and some of our recent projects.  If you click the “Let’s Get Started” button [...]

This whole geotagging concept has me thinking quite a bit.  One of the things that I’ve been concerned about is usability.  This is one of the major factors that comes into play when building any sort of website or webapp.  If you check out the geotagging concept you’ll notice that making a selection in the [...]

I spent some time this evening adding a sidebar to the geotagging app. If you click on a tag in the right sidebar the map is recentered and a window displays the tag information. Now I just need to get it so other BlueGPS users can post their favorite tags. Once this [...]

I’ve been spending what little spare time I have on BlueGPS and getting data from Windows Mobile over to my Rails app. I received a few feature requests from BlueGPS users asking for the ability to “geotag” locations with a simple note. I ultimately want to build in photo capabilities, but I’ll save [...]

While working on a recent update to BlueGPS I’ve added the ability to “geotag” favorite spots with a location and basic note. The data is uploaded from a Windows Mobile device to a remote server. The server is currently running Ruby on Rails. I’ve added methods to add geotags and am currently [...]

I’ve been doing most of my Rails development using the built-in WEBrick server. I recently ran into a problem when deploying my application to a production environment. The production server was running Rails with Apache. Since I’m new to this type of configuration I ran into problems when trying to access the [...]