I don’t want to imply by the title this is anyone’s fault but my own. But since it took me two days to figure out, I thought I’d share.
I’m using the excellent authentication package, authlogic, for my current project. I want to allow normal registrations through my site and also registrations using Twitter credentials. In [...]
Just an FYI for those of you running the latest stable Rails.
Rails 2.3.1+ depends on Rack 1.0. In 2.3.1, it only uses the vendor’d version of Rack 1.0 (which is located under action_controller/vendor). In 2.3.2, it can use a vendor’d version of Rack 1.0 if the gem isn’t installed in your system. Rails 2.3.3 depends [...]
If you ever wanted to know if your application is running normally or in console mode, here’s the trick:
def in_console?
Object.const_defined?(:IRB)
end
This would break if you require’d IRB in your Rails application normally, though I can’t possibly imagine why you would.
Following on the heels of Twitter on your maintenance page, the other piece of custom setup I needed for this solution to work was making the site swallow all incoming requests while disabled in order to show the maintenance page. In the past on sites using Nginx+thin/mongrel the setup has been in the nginx configuration [...]
I recently started a new project. Because the domain was purchased, one of the first acts of business was a, “Coming Soon,” page. I decided the maintenance/deploy:web:disable page was the perfect solution. I could put it up in production and leave it off in staging without special code shenanigans. It would be re-usable for the [...]
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