http://www.techskater.com Dennis Baldwin's Thoughts Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:23:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm posting way too much about SVN these days, but these are mainly for my personal recollection. Hopefully you'll find them useful too. Here's the scenario: you're working on a branch and you want to merge a single commit from trunk into the branch. The first thing you need to ... http://www.techskater.com/software-tools/merging-a-single-subversion-commit-from-trunk-to-branch/ There are cases where you don't want to run your entire Rails test suite. From your Rails application directory run the following command: ruby -I lib:test test/integration/dealer_admin_test.rb A small but useful tidbit. http://www.techskater.com/ruby-on-rails/running-a-single-test-file-in-rails/ I recently got a new MacBook Pro and had problems creating a new database for my Rails app on Snow Leopard. Running rake db:create left me with the following useless error: Couldn't create database for {"username"=>"root", "adapter"=>"mysql", "database"=>"delete_me", "password"=>nil, "socket"=>"/tmp/mysql.sock"}, charset: utf8, collation: utf8_unicode_ci (if you set the charset manually, make ... http://www.techskater.com/ruby-on-rails/problems-with-mysql-gem-and-rake-on-snow-leopard/ This was a new one for me. I was installing Magento today on Ubuntu Hardy (8.04.3 LTS to be exact) and ran into a problem where accessing the base Magento install URL would prompt to download the index.php file. The odd thing was that I could access the index.php directly ... http://www.techskater.com/magento/magento-unexpectedly-prompts-to-download-indexphp/ I'm spending a lot of time with the SVN command line right now because we're trying to get a product release out the door. One thing that I've found handy is the ability to get the comments and list of files changed for a certain revision number. This is fairly ... http://www.techskater.com/random/svn-list-comment-and-files-changed-for-a-certain-revision/ Just a quick post if you'd like to get a history of SVN commits between an older revision and your current working copy. Get the current revision number from your local copy: svnversion . Then get a commit history between and older version and your current version: svn log -r 6885:8485 Where the number ... http://www.techskater.com/web-stuff/svn-current-revision-number-and-commit-log-between-two-revisions/ If you're running an older version of Ubuntu that has been EOL'ed (End of Lifed) then you'll at some point need to install a new package using apt-get. When trying to do this you'll likely get a 404 erros saying the package isn't found. Your choice is to either upgrade ... http://www.techskater.com/random/installing-ubuntu-gutsy-packages-via-apt-get-when-eoled/ I'm getting more and more follows from "Twitter Whores". Generally I can tell they're spam follows before I even click on the link because they're username will be something like Username1975. Anyway, this is a completely useless post, but on the up-side it's good to know that Twitter is taking ... http://www.techskater.com/random/twitter-whores/ While upgrading our Rails app to version 2.3.2 I ran into a painful bug when running our unit tests. Previously, we defined ActionMailer instance variables to be used in our views like this: @body["name"] = user.name @body["feedback"] = feedback @body["when"] = Time.now I had to refactor this to use a hash as the ActionMailer ... http://www.techskater.com/ruby-on-rails/rails-232-actionmailer-views-and-multiple-body-instance-variables/ I've decided to consolidate my different blogs about technology and skateboarding into techskater.com. I've migrated a majority of my content to this blog, but need to update all my pages in Google (> 300) to redirect to techskater. You'll notice that this link about GoDaddy on Rails @ db75.com (my ... http://www.techskater.com/random/consolidating-my-blogs-to-reside-techskatercom/