See http://www.therealvan.com/pn/?p=186 for installing: Rails 3.0.3 & MySQL on Windows 7. After installing those, and once work begins, chances are an IDE w/ line-debugging capabilities are needed. Aptana Studio 3 seems to…
Prerequisites Git installed and on PATH Installation Sign up for a Heroku account. Note the user email address and password. Download and install the Heroku Toolbelt. (see https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/quickstart) Even if…
The groovy.net.http.RESTClient class is a subclass of a more general groovyx.net.http.HttpBuilder class and comes with the "rest" plugin (http://grails.org/plugin/rest). GET A simple GET request with query parameters: def rest =…
More Rails stuff. I was using command line & vim to do some Rails stuff until fingers got tired of switching between files. So I did a some searches and…
Mainly notes on setting up the following (suitable for Dreamhost's Rails setup): Ruby 1.8.7-p374 Rails 3.0.3 Ruby devkit (from http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/) MySQL Installer 5.6.17 Community Server 64-bit mysql2 GEM '0.2.22' Install Ruby 1.8.7 by…
Just recently upgraded from an Android 2.1 device (HTC Aria) to an Android 4.4 device (Moto X). To enable the developer USB feature that allows installing and running (let alone…
THEREALVAN.COM has moved to a new home! The previous hosting company had a good introductory rate, but the regular rate was too high for a relatively inactive site like this one.…