He is a copy of my Oauth presentation [806 kB] from tonight's WellRailed group. I discussed Oauth from both a client and a server perspective. Plenty of examples from Sharesight, where we are building an API.

Here is the example test.rb

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I've been enjoying listening to New Zealand native birds as ringtones on my iPhone. Here is one of my favourites - the Korimako, or Bellbird [164 kB].

You are welcome to share this with your friends and redistribute - as long as you retain the...

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With the Sharesight test suite (ruby/rails/mysql && rake test), i tested the performance of my the new MBP on Snow Leopard.

I save 16 seconds per run - its going to take a while to pay for itself.... But about 22% faster, which is not too bad.

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I recently created a couple of Centos virtual machines, and took notes of all the steps. You can use these notes for both installing another VM, or for building a production server.

We used these VMs for running staging and production instances of...

# first remove your copy and paste plugin....

git rm -r vendor/plugins/xxxxxxgit commit

now you are ready to add the submodule

git submodule add git://your_git_repo/xxxxx.git vendor/plugins/xxxxxgit commit

git...

We have a situation where we want one domain which serves a rails app at root and also has a wordpress blog served within the main site.

yours.com/ -- served by railsyours.com/blog -- served by php

To configure this in apache, <Directory /var/www/apps/railsapp/current/public> Options...</Directory>

This is quite trivial and very easy. I wanted to use the same version of ruby on my mac as is running on our production servers (Ruby Enterprise Edition).

Firstly, do a

gem list

Just migrated a legacy database into a rails compliant database - and wrote this nifty DSL script to help out....

The rake task generates the Hash data for the table creation, data insert and rollback scripts.

Once you run the rake task, paste the...

I just recently spent some time with a client investigating some performance issues with mysql subqueries.

The obviously contrived example below

mysql explain select count(*) from visits where id in (select id from visits where id < 1000);</p><p>...</p>< 1000);</p>