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Engine Yard Associate Partner

Thanks to the good folks at Engine Yard for inviting Bust Out Solutions to be an Associate Development Partner. We recently started using Engine Yard for hosting and so far their service has been great. We’ll be working on an experimental JRuby project as well as regular client work using Ruby on Rails.

Heroku Success Story

We recently moved bestbuyideax.com to Heroku, a Ruby hosting platform that runs in the Amazon cloud. We’ve been incredibly happy with their platform, as well as their service. Thanks to Oren Teich for writing up a success story about Best Buy IdeaX.

The bundled mysql.rb driver has been removed from Rails 2.2

If you’re getting this error, install the mysql gem by executing the following command: sudo gem install mysql — –with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config This worked for me, and I’m using Mac OS X 10.5.6, Rails 2.2.2, and MySQL 5.0.67.

Install ImageScience and FreeImage on Mac OS X

If you plan on allowing users to upload images to your Rails site, you’re probably using Rick Olson’s attachement_fu plugin. You’ve also probably come across Mike Clark’s File Upload Fu tutorial. Step one of Mike’s tutorial requires you to install an image processing library. ImageScience is simple and does the trick. To save you some [...]

Zed on Mongrel

Hear about Mongrel from the creator himself on this InfoQ online video. Good presentation, even without any insulting, cursing, or self-inflation. Well, not that much, at least.

DataMapper 0.2 and Rails

The DataMapper ORM framework is forging ahead and is now on version 0.2.3. In my previous DataMapper post I wrote about how to get started using the 0.1 release of DataMapper in Rails. Today, let’s look at some of what’s new installation-wise, as well as how well DataMapper is handling relationships between our model objects. [...]

Open Source Abuse

I was doing some research today on using the acts_as_ferret plugin for an upcoming Bust Out site, when I quite accidentally stumbled upon this interesting post regarding how terrible and misleading the plugin apparently is. The tone certainly seems disproportionate to the offense. And I’m no enterprise search architect, but I understand that distributing an [...]

Radiant CMS for Rails Developers

I recently ported an existing Rails site to the Radiant CMS as our client wanted changes more frequently that initially anticipated. The good news is that the port went well. Radiant is a nice system. But I did struggle just a wee-bit. So, as I typically don’t do front-end stuff at Bust Out, I figured [...]

Capistrano 2.0 and Dreamhost

I recently had the pleasure of deploying a few Rails applications to the FCGI funhouse that is Dreamhost, and just to make matters more interesting, I decided to do the deploys using Capistrano 2.0, rather than its better documented predecessor. After fumbling around a bit trying to translate various Capistrano 1.* recipes, as well as [...]

On Simplicity

Two interesting recent articles on the virtues of keeping things (products, projects, etc) small and simple. Be humble, think about your users, create great projects and better code.

Shopify makes the Webware 100

Congratulations to all the folks over at Shopify for being chosen as a finalist for the Webware 100 Awards. Based on our recent implementation experience, I think the distinction is well-deserved. We’ll be sure to cast our votes.

J to the double E

We don’t often write about specific technologies here at Bust Out, as we tend to be fairly agnostic and pragmatic about such matters, but we recently sent a contingent off to Portland, OR to attend RailsConf 2007 and we are feeling pretty darn excited about the Rails framework and its future. What’s the cause of [...]

Point Clinic gets Shopified

We recently launched an e-commerce section of the Point Clinic website. Play handled the graphic design and photography, and Bust Out Solutions implemented the e-commerce functionality. We used Shopify, a Ruby on Rails e-commerce engine built by the folks at Jaded Pixel. Shopify allows you to create a full-blown e-commerce store in literally a few [...]

Rails modal windows

I dug around for a while yesterday looking into how to close prototype modal windows upon a successful ajax post while ensuring proper error handling. I discovered two excellent blog entries on the subject at javathehutt and richtextblog. Unfortunately, neither of them quite fit my case or fully addressed my issue. Of course, I could [...]

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