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MetaWeblog API, Exception Notifier

Just today I implemented the MetaWeblog API for this blog and this post was published using ScribeFire plugin for Firefox. I followed the instructions from this blog post. It was really easy to follow the instructions and implement it into my custom blog. The only problem I’ve had was that I have a model named Category and because of that I had to change the Category ActionWebService::Struct name (I’ve used AWSCategory :).

A week or so ago I also implemented exception notification. Now every time an exception is raised inside my blog a mail is sent to me with the remote ip, user agent, url and the exception backtrace. Because of this I was able to fix some url bugs I didn’t noticed at first.

As for my injury I’m now fine and my foot has recovered. I still feel some small pain but the doctor said it will pass in a couple of days. For now I will not play any football or cageball, but I will do cycling if the weather permits it.

I’ve replaced acts_as_attachment plugin with attachment_fu. I only needed to replace acts_as_attachment with has_attachment in the model and move the public/#{table_name}/#{photo.id} folders to public/#{table_name}/0000/00#{photo.id}/ folders because of some changes in the attachment_fu namely this from file_system_backend.rb:36 in the backends folder of the attachment_fu plugin:

    def partitioned_path(*args)
        ("%08d" % attachment_path_id).scan(/..../) + args
    end

Posted in Rails, 0 Comments

Replace apache for nginx

So today I replaced apache2 with nginx on my slice at slicehost and here is how I've done that.

First of all download nginx form here and unpack it somwere. The installation is a standard source installation. I've done it like this on my Debian Etch slice.

    # ./configure  --with-http_ssl_module 
       --sbin-path=/usr/local/nginx \ 
       --conf-path=/usr/local/nginx/nginx.conf \
       --pid-path=/usr/local/nginx/nginx.pid 
    # make
    # sudo make install

After that I've customized nginx.conf for my needs following this example and I also used this startup script that I also customized. Now all that I needed to do was to copy the nginx startup script into /etc/init.d, make it executable, stop apache and start nginx. 

    # sudo cp /somewhere/nginx /etc/init.d/nginx
    # sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/nginx
    # sudo update-rc.d nginx defaults
    # sudo update-rc.d -f apache2 remove 
    # sudo invoke-rc.d apache2 stop<br />
    # sudo invoke-rc.d nginx start

And that's it. Hope it helps someone :)
I will still keep apache installed. I might have some use of it somewhere or sometime :)

P.S. The nginx.conf example I am refering to is customized for a rails application using a cluster of two mongrel instances. For other examples please see here.

Posted in Linux, 2 Comments

Photo commenting in the gallery

Thanks to the amazing rails web framework I was able to add photo commenting in the gallery in less than an hour. And I'm a rails newbie.  Just click on an image in the gallery and when lightbox2 finishes its job you will see a link called "Comments". If you click on it you will be redirected to the commenting page for that picture.

In other news, today I found out I would not go to the WinDays conference held in Opatija, Croatia because of my cageball injury. I have an appointment with the doctor on the 23rd. when I will find out if the casts are history or not. The WinDays conference starts on the 23rd. so no Opatija for me.

So bye bye Opatija see you next year :(

Posted in Rails, 0 Comments

Cageball injury

Yesterday I played cageball and was injured. A player of the oposite side kicked my leg instead of the ball. I managed to finish the game but today when I visited the hospital because my foot was swelling I was suprised to find out I broke my toe and the little finger.

So today at 27 years old I got my first casts.

Not cool :(

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