http://upstream-berlin.com/blog Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:47:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As the careful reader might have noticed, we have added another RSS feed to the blog sidebar. Under the keiala product blog you can now see our commits to all our open source repositories on github. To make this possible I have used yahoo pipes for the first time. The ... http://upstream-berlin.com/blog/2008/04/25/git-commits-in-the-blog-sidebar/ This is our latest and also largest plugin for ruby on rails so far. After the installation it adds a social feed as seen in the picture to your rails application. The sources have been extracted from autoki which has had a social feed for a couple of months now, ... http://upstream-berlin.com/blog/2008/04/25/new-rails-plugin-social-feed/ Yesterday I was using attachment_fu to attach photos to a couple of models. Since attachment_fu requires you to create an extra model for the photo, you usually have a one to one relationship between the model and the photo. [source:ruby] class Project has_one :project_photo end [/source] But now that you have two models you ... http://upstream-berlin.com/blog/2008/04/21/hiding-attachment_fu-from-your-controllers/ dead simple reports is a Ruby on Rails plugin that allows you to create reports from your application data within minutes. As of now it can not only generate HTML tables and CSV files but also M$ Excel spreadsheets. This is possible through the use of the spreadsheet-excel gem. You ... http://upstream-berlin.com/blog/2008/04/12/rails-reporting-dead-simple-reports-now-supports-excel-directly/ GitHub is out of beta so now we have moved our open source projects there. Actually they already have been there for a while but we have now split them into their own repositories. The upstream subversion will still be online for a while but new commits will only go ... http://upstream-berlin.com/blog/2008/04/11/moving-to-github/ autoki has recently grown into a more and more complex application. Besides two clusters of mongrels and the mysql database we have a memcached server, ferret and starling plus clients for asynchronous processing. WIth so many services running (and sometimes not running) the need to monitor all these grew. We ... http://upstream-berlin.com/blog/2008/04/10/monitoring-the-internals-of-your-rails-application-with-nagios/ Das klingt so gut, das machen wir auch: 37signals haben beschlossen, im Sommer nur 4 Tage die Woche zu arbeiten - nach 3 Tagen Wochenende ist man einfach entspannter, glücklicher ergo produktiver. Kreditkarten für alle und finanzielle Beteiligung an den Hobbys der Mitarbeiter - klingt auch nicht schlecht, aber so ... http://upstream-berlin.com/blog/2008/03/10/4-tage-woche-und-kreditkarten-fur-alle/ Nach kurzer Wartezeit habe ich heute meine Einladung zum Betatest von GitHub bekommen und das erst gestern eröffnete public upstream subversion ins public upstream git repository kopiert. Man kann unser großartiges dead simple reports plugin jetzt also auch über git ziehen. Der Einstieg in github war schonmal sehr angenehm. Um das ... http://upstream-berlin.com/blog/2008/03/04/upstream-auf-github/ Na endlich. Nach all den Jahren des nur-Geldverdienens und Open Source-Ausnutzens haben wir es geschafft, ein paar erste Zeilen Code in die Freiheit zu entlassen: dead simple reports, ein Rails-Plugin, das Reports generieren kann. Mehr dazu im neuen Bereich Open Source http://upstream-berlin.com/blog/2008/03/03/upstream-goes-open-source-dead-simple-reports/ We just encountered a bug in one of our rails applications where we had accidentally used some_mode.delete instead of some_model.destroy. I think delete should not be a public method on ActiveRecord. After all it's just some evil means to circumvent all those rails callbacks and stuff to gain some more ... http://upstream-berlin.com/blog/2008/02/28/delete-considered-harmful/