Adjusting Heroku Timezone

Changing the timezone on the Heroku Cedar stack can be done in a few easy steps.

Grab your the appropriate zone name string from here
In your console/shell (app will restart after): heroku config:add TZ=America/Vancouver

To test it out:

console/shell: heroku run console
Time.now

Monday, 09 January 2012 10:36 Written by adevia 0 Comments

Github for Mac released

Github, a popular company for hosting public and private source code repositories (and a requirement for using cloud-based hosting solutions from EngineYard and Heroku) has just released a native Mac OS desktop application.

Overall, the Github mac application allows users of their service to perform tasks normally reserved through terminal, within the application. For simple tasks such as push & pull this isn’t a big deal, however for more complex tasks this application is a huge timesaver.

Perhaps as an indicator to the rising popularity of OS X as a developer platform, the official Github application is only available on the Mac.

Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:12 Written by adevia 0 Comments

Rails 3.1 RC Released

37 Signals has released the Ruby on Rails 3.1 release candidate and it has a number of big features in store:

Asset Pipelines

Sprockets 2.0 powered, rack based asset packaging which enables proper organization, including use in plugins and engines. SCSS is the default for stylesheets & CoffeeScript is the default for JavaScript. Supports multiple concatenations (including CSS), CoffeeScript & SCSS preprocessing.

HTTP Streaming

2 words: faster pages. HTTP Streaming lets the browser downloa stylesheets and javascript while the server is generating the response. It will require support from the web server, that said unicorn & ngnix already support it.

jQuery is now the default

Finally! jQuery is now the default JavaScript framework. If you still want to use Prototype, it’s extremely easy to switch to it.

Reversible migrations: DRY migrations that know how to revert themselves.

Identity Map: Allows you to reduce the number of queries your app will trigger. Speed!

Force SSL: Force_ssl makes your application encryption easier to manage on a per-app or per-controller basis

It’s recommended that if you are going to start a new application, that you use Ruby 1.9.2. Rails will support 1.8.x until Rails 4.0 but it will soon be considered a legacy option.

Tuesday, 24 May 2011 15:33 Written by adevia 0 Comments

Rails 3.0.1 & 2.3.10 released

A security vulnerability was found in the nested attributes code in Rails 3.0.0 and 2.3.9. It is highly recommended that all rails applications be updated to 3.0.1 or 2.3.10 respectively.

Source

Friday, 15 October 2010 08:30 Written by adevia 0 Comments

Ruby on Rails 3 goes final

Ruby on Rails 3.0.0 framework was released today to the community. After a lengthy development cycle, we’re happy to see it arrive. Notable enhancements in this final release include:

Merge of Rails & Merb frameworks
New Active Record query engine
New router for Action Controller
New Action Mailer
Manage dependencies with Bundler
XSSÂ¬â€ protection enabled by default
Elimination of encoding issues from non-english languages (and MS Word!)
Active Model: Validations, callbacks, etc
New Railties API for plugins support
Complete rewrite of Action Pack and Railties
Unobtrustive Javascript support – switch between jQuery & Prototype with relative ease

If you’re using Engine Yard as your host, they have already updated their system to support the new framwork.

Sunday, 29 August 2010 11:02 Written by adevia 0 Comments

Rails 3 RC2 Now Available

37 Signals announced today that the second release candidate for Ruby on Rails 3.0 has been released. Ruby on Rails 3.0 RC2 has relatively few changes to it which indicates that a final release is imminent unless major issues are found soon. Reviewing the changes on git it appears that 356 commits were made by 64 authors in the process of producing RC2. Rails 3.0 now has it’s own stable branch on git found with the master branch now pointing to rails 3.1 To update or install Ruby on Rails 3.0 RC2 through gem use:

gem install rails –pre

To update through Bundler edit your Gemfile and set the gem entry as:

gem ‘rails’, ’3.0.0.rc2′

Tuesday, 24 August 2010 16:56 Written by adevia 0 Comments

Rails 3 Release Candidate now available

The Rails 3 RC was just released moments ago. If you have been testing out Rails 3 Beta 4, now is a great time to upgrade and see what’s changed. Engine Yard’s appCloud has also updated their technology stack to now support Rails 3 RC.

Since Beta 4, 125 authors have made over 840 commits to the code base.

Monday, 26 July 2010 16:28 Written by adevia 0 Comments