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You can install the iPhone app today, or if you're on Android, BlackBerry, or other mobile platforms, follow us on Twitter, or friend us on FaceBook to find out when we're on other platforms.  Also, even if you don't need it today, it's good to install it now, and get in on the $10 we give you towards your first purchase, whenever that may be.  As soon as you sign up, we add the $10 credit, and it doesn't expire.  We're doing a bunch of other awesome promotional things too.  Check out the Facebook page for how to get a free night, or follow us on Twitter to watch for ways you can snag more credits.

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UPDATE: As it turns out, the below solution was totally rookie!  The whole issue is still there, but the need to solve it with the use of update_all (which is a bit brute force and generally something to avoid for just updating a couple attributes on a single record, it avoids validations, etc, etc.), was not necessary.  As it turns out, there are association callbacks. I'm kind of surprised I hadn't seen this or thought of it.  But, there are callbacks to be notified when associated records are added, or removed (and both the before and after variations). So, instead, instead of setting the update_lowest_and_highest_rates as an after_update, specify an after_remove callback on the association:

Then implement the update method like:

I recently ran into some tricky issues related to deleting records on an association combined with ActiveRecord callbacks.  The issue may seem like an edge case, but from googling for solutions, clearly it's not an uncommon need.  An example will illustrate the problem...

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I wanted to setup more significant caching for some heavy use types of pages on DealBase.  Various things have made this challenging to date, but the last thing I ran into was dealing with the fact that query parameters change page results (duh), but that of course Rails' page and action caching ignore query parameters.  There isn't an easy (or?) way to get around the page caching part unless you start mucking with Nginx rules as well I think.  But, action caching has a solution.  I had done a ton of Googling on this, and I knew about adjusting the cache_path, as well as some other bits, but we have cases where there are a lot of parameters.  Plus, I didn't want to worry about what happens if I add a new search/filter type of parameter later on, and having to remember to add that to the list of things the cache_path differed on.  

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I have spent roughly the last month using the RubyMine IDE for about 80%+ of my daily development work.  I initially grabbed it to try out the debugger on a particularly nasty problem, and then decided to give it a real evaluation.  My daily work is on DealBase, and covers the full spectrum of Rails development.  The testing was done mostly using a quad-core Mac Pro with 8GB of RAM and 30" and 24" monitors (dual monitor setup), with RubyMine running essentially full screen on the 30".  I also did some work on my MacBook Pro (Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM).  Both machines use Snow Leopard.  My current and longtime editor has been TextMate, although I have far more time spent historically in environments like Visual C++/Studio, IDEA, a bit of time in Eclipse, a bit in Emacs, BBEdit, CodeWarrior, regularly use Vim, etc.  To date, the speed and light weight of TextMate, combined with it's slick column editing feature (that's one killer feature), have kept me from switching.  But, there may be some movement here...

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The jQuery autocomplete plugin is quite nice, and we use it a fair bit on DealBase.  However, what I found was that if you set the mustMatch option, your text cannot contain commas, colons, and a few other punctuation (and maybe other) characters.  For some reason that I've yet to track down (debugging through many nested anonymous functions and callbacks has yet to yield an answer), it thinks it changes at some point to not think it's a match. A good example of this is if you allow a user to type in a city name, but you want to show them matching cities with the state and/or country included, to disambiguation.  E.g. you may have Portland, Oregon and Portland, Maine (not to mention the few Portlands in Australia :)

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I finished reading Coders at Work about a week ago.  Truly a great book as others have also said.  I was surprised by some of the things I read in the interview with Donald Knuth.  He is such an icon, and his books are really intense, and as such, I think I expected something (someone?) different.  But, he seems quite approachable, down to earth, and of course very interesting as well.  A couple great parts stood out in Knuth's interview.  

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That title is a bit cryptic, but here's the deal.  In the past, the GitHub post receive hook for Pivotal Tracker (http://github.com/chris/tracker_github_hook) was configured using a single API key.  This meant all the comments it added to Tracker were as the person who corresponded to the API key - regardless of who actually made the commit to git.  On multi-person teams, that sucks, as you want the comment to be from the person making the git commit.  Well, that's fixed now.  The fix is backward compatible, so if you simply update your version, nothing will break.  

user_api_tokens:
  chris:
    email: 'chris@example.com'
    tracker_api_token: deadbeef340e3bafa96f5b2cac6986ed
  zach:
    email: 'zach@example.com'
    tracker_api_token: badd00d27202feed12de3120903ea83a

Now what will happen is that anytime a commit comes into the post-recieve hook, it'll try to correlate the email of the author of the commit with an entry in user_api_tokens, and if found, it'll use that tracker_api_token to call the Pivotal API, and thus associate the comment in Tracker with the person whose API token it is.

For any email that isn't found, the default/top level tracker_api_token will be used (this can be the same as one of the user_api_tokens), so you still want to keep that one in there as your default API token.

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I'm now about 3/4 of the way through Coders at Work, which is a series of interviews with software lumninaries (a good range, like Douglas Crockford, Donald Knuth, Brad Fitzpatrick, etc.).  I've been truly enjoying this book, one of the better computer/software/geek books I've read in a while.  There have been various points of debate further covered by Lambda and so on; big ones tend to be C++ hate and testing.  I've liked reading a lot of the different points of view on what one needs to know to be a great programmer, as well as debugging techniques (a lot more print statement use than I expected!).  

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Development of the alert emails has been interesting. One of the most useful tools throughout has been Litmus' email testing service. It's pretty slick. They cover quite an array of email clients, both web hosted (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.), as well as desktop (Outlook, Apple Mail, Notes, etc.). They also do spam testing. When you begin a test, they supply you an email address specific for that particular test run, and then you just email them the real email you want tested. You can also paste in an email, but I prefer to do the sending approach to as closely mimic the real thing as possible. I have my IRB and various other bits configured to make it a single command to fire off test cases to a Litmus supplied email address, and the whole process works great, and is truly worth Litmus' cost.

I started off mentioning RSS, and back to that... The RSS does work differently than the email alerts (obviously), and to some degree the web page. It is like selecting the "Most Recently Posted" sort on a page (see below image). Deals are supplied to the RSS feed as they're posted, just like a blog would do. Just one more way to stay on top of deals. Oh, and don't forget we're on Twitter too.

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After switching our CI server to Integrity, there were a few blips, one of which is that we were hitting swap (memory). Hitting swap is not surprising and I'm surprised it hasn't been a problem sooner, since memory is our #1 battle. I figured if I was going to up the memory on our CI server, I might also try Hudson, as that was the main reason for not trying it previously.

The short story is that I tried it, and we're back to Integrity, but I learned some interesting things. The following is both some notes on installation, as well as some reasons why it didn't work out...

Installing Hudson

Our CI box is a slice at Slicehost, running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, and I'd just upped it from 256MB RAM to 1GB. Also of note, I've built and install Git 1.6.4 for this system. The following are brief notes on getting Hudson going as it wasn't quite as simple as most folks made it out to be...

First, I followed the directions on the Hudson site for installing Hudson from the Ubuntu package. This amounts to adding the package repository, updating apt-get, and then doing:

sudo apt-get install hudson

This installs all the Java 1.6 stuff you need (and mine seems fine with 64bit Java), and other dependencies. After the install, Hudson is running, on default port 8080. Next up I added a server block/configuration in Nginx for Hudson (and unlinked/removed Integrity). I then went to Hudson in my browser. What I got was an error message about the xstream library. Fixing that was easy, as it turned out: downloaded the latest (1.320 at the time) hudson.war from the Hudson site, and replaced /usr/share/hudson/hudson.war with it. Restarted Hudson, and voila, now it was up and running.

Also, Hudson runs as the user "hudson", so I needed to add an SSH key for that user, and then add the public key to GitHub. And, setup a ~hudson/.gitconfig as needed. Finally, as I found later, do a git clone or an SSH to github so that you get past the whole SSH authenticity question when you first SSH to an unknown server. Note, the Hudson user is not an interactive user, i.e. you can't directly login as that user, so to gen the SSH key, you'll need do something like su to root and do, sudo -u hudson ssh-keygen -t dsa.

Configuring Hudson

Before adding a project, I needed to config some plugins. I went to the Manage page, clicked on Installed, and turned off the Subversion plugin and restarted. Next was going back in to manage plugins, and installing the Git, Github, and Rake plugins, and again restarting. Both restarts showed an Nginx bad gateway error, but simply refreshing got it back (probably just needed more time for Hudson to restart).

Then to configure a build, from the main Hudson page after a fresh install, click the "create new jobs" link. In the ensuing form, enter a project name, and select "Build a free-style software project".

Next:

• checked "Discard Old Builds" which then shows you options (so you can put in keep for X days, or X number of builds)


• Added URL for Github project, http://github.com/yourproject/yourproject


• Select Git as the SCM, and entered by git@github.com:yourproject/yourproject.git URL for the repository


• Turned on merge after build option. This will supposedly add tags for the build to your code base and then merge them back in. More on this in a bit.


• Next I configured the build steps for my project. All I really did here was take the same build steps I used for Integrity, and added them as individual shell and rake tasks.

At this point, I fired off a build (truth be told, I started with just a single build step to vet it), and things worked, with the exception of the very last step, where I push the Git tags back to GitHub. This is what I saw:

[workspace] $ /bin/sh -xe /tmp/hudson1444107192962944065.sh+ /usr/bin/git push --tagsXML error: syntax errorerror: Error: no DAV locking support on https://github.com/dealbase/dealbase/error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/dealbase/dealbase'

I've now been searching for answers to this, and haven't yielded anything. I've tried the git push directly from a shell, with the same result. If I do this as a different user (e.g. under my user) it works fine. This git push is attempted both as part of a rake task (the ci_tag task), as well as I tried making it just a straight shell command in Hudson.

After a lot of googling, and asking, and no resolution in sight, I've gone back to Integrity...

Comparisons and Notes

First off, I think Hudson looks pretty stellar. There are a TON of plugins for it, and it seems quite mature and polished. The essentially 100% configuration via the GUI is slick. Install, despite a few hoops above, was actually pretty painless. So, here's just a few notes/opinions:

Hudson

• You will need some memory to run Hudson, more than with Integrity or CruiseControl.rb. From what I can tell, you probably want a system with 1GB or more. Various other folks I talked to all had 2GB or more systems, and their Hudson processes were taking 1.5GB or more. This is partly just a Java thing. It should be noted, the others were running more than one build with Hudson, and mine seemed to work fine on a 1GB total memory system (didn't seem to hit swap).


• Hudson allows you to kill a build while it's running (nice!).


• Hudson works with CCMenu/CCTray out of the box.


• The git integration has more options in terms of picking branches, doing merging, and various more involved operations, but doesn't have GitHub post-receive hook support out of the box (there are plugins up on GitHub for it, but not listed in the standard plugin list).


• Hudson runs as user "hudson", which is a user that has no shell. You could change this, although the idea is you shouldn't have to. However, this complicates setting up SSH keys and various things. And, of course, I had the issue with Git as mentioned above. I could probably change this to run as my user and so on, but part of all this for me is not having to change a lot of defaults and start messing with core configurations/designs of the system. In part, I just don't have time to do that, and to maintain it (these kinds of changes often cause problems when you upgrade versions, etc. - also known as you may forget to redo these changes if an upgrade undoes them :).


• The UI and web app itself is quite nice, understandable, well done in general for something like this.

Also, thanks to the Tea-Driven blog for motivating me to try Hudson (and for some tips on Testjour - more on that in another post).

Integrity

I really only have one main complaint about Integrity, and that has to do with indication of a build in progress. It essentially doesn't indicate it - it says it hasn't been built yet, but a build may actually be running. The CCMenu/integritray plugin will show you that a build is running, so this mostly solves my problem, but this seems like a core failure. I may have to look at fixing this. And that is a win for Integrity in that it's Ruby, and thus I'll be more apt to go fix this (while I spent MANY years doing heavy Java work, I don't have interest in working in that code anymore for a task like this).

CruiseControl.rb

One thing that remains an advantage for CC.rb is that it has "build artifacts" - i.e. you can create files and such as part of your build and have those known to CC.rb, where it then links to them in the summary of your build. You may or may not need it, but it's also very handy for simply showing you the Git tag you created on a successful build. I just touch a file in the build artifacts dir with the name of the Git tag, and then I don't have to dig through the output of the build to find my Git tag.

That's all the time I have for today, hopefully this is also helpful to others...

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It should be noted that, as you might guess, the "random" failures were not exactly random, but suffice it to say that the root cause re-inforced my notion to switch. My main beef with CC.rb has more to do with it being somewhat in bed with Rake and wanting to run your CI build via a rake task, and some of the issues (or impurities?) that come up with that. But I'm boring you...

Anyway, Integrity... Setup is relatively easy, and is covered fairly well on their setup page/docs. But the following is what I did, which I'm documenting for myself and anyone else who may find it useful.

I setup my server to use with Nginx and Passenger. I tried using Integrity with Nginx and Thin, but wasn't able to get Integrity to work right (similar to the results defunkt had when they tried it at GitHub). We've standardized on Nginx+Passenger, so this was good anyway. I nuked the Nginx I had already and proceeded (all this being done on an Ubuntu Hardy VPS system at Slicehost):

sudo gem install passengersudo passenger-install-nginx-module

I let it install Nginx, and picked the default location. I then re-added our HTTP Basic Authentication and a few other Nginx tweaks as I had in the prior Nginx configuration. Next up was to install some prerequisites and Integrity itself:

sudo apt-get sqlite3 libsqlite3-devsudo gem install integrity do_sqlite3 thinintegrity install /home/ci/integrity --passengercd integrity

Next you'll want to tweak config.yml to customize the domain where you'll access your CI server. I left the rest the same. Then setup Integrity's database:

integrity migrate_db /home/ci/integrity/config.yml

I also added the "integritray" plugin, so that I could continue to use CCMenu to monitor my builds. See the integritray GitHub page for simple install.

Now point Nginx/Passenger at your install, by adding the appropriate server block for a Passenger Rails app, such as:

server {    listen       80;    server_name  your.ciserver.com;    root /home/ci/integrity/public;    passenger_enabled on;    auth_basic            "Restricted";    auth_basic_user_file  /opt/nginx/conf/htpasswd;}

Finally, fire up Nginx, and surf to your CI server domain/URL. You should see something like this:

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Click the "create your first project" link, and enter details about your app. The "Git repository" field should get your GitHub or other git server URL (e.g. your clone URL). For a build script, the following is what I used:

rake log:clear && RAILS_ENV=test rake db:reset && spec --options spec/spec.opts spec/**/*_spec.rb && RAILS_ENV=cucumber rake db:reset && cucumber --strict -q --format pretty features && rake ci_tag

This is one nice thing about Integrity - it's pretty much any command you can give it. Sure, you might want to wrap that up in a Rake task, or a shell script or however you want to do it. I just entered that raw so it's overly obvious exactly what it's doing. I also found this to work better than doing it as a Rake task, as somehow I wasn't getting the environment to switch properly under Rake. The "ci_tag" rake task is my task for tagging/labeling succesful builds in Git, etc.

Next, you'll want to setup a post-commit service hook on GitHub. You can get your Push URL by clicking the edit link for your project in Integiry:

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Note, that works even with HTTP Basic Auth, just add your user credentials to the Push URL before pasting it in on GitHub.

Finally, fire off a build. And note, one downside of Integrity is that it doesn't indicate (in the web UI) that a build is underway. It just says it hasn't been built yet. The integritray item and thus CCMenu will show you that it's building though.

Lastly... some have asked why not XYZ CI server? A few notes on this:

• Hudson: this looks awesome, but also somewhat overkill for our needs. I have one project to build, and I'm doing it on a very inexpensive slice that has only 256MB of RAM - I doubt I could even start Hudson in that little RAM, being it's a Java web app, etc. Secondarily, I'd prefer to have the app be Ruby so I can hack on it (I've made at least very minor tweaks to every CI server I've used to date).


• cruisecontrol.rb - this is what we were using, and it worked well, with minor exception to some random failures and the Rake-oriented build process. I'd really say this is minor though, and would suggest folks try it out. You can of course refer to my previous writeup on setting up CruiseControl.rb :)


• CI Joe/cijoe - this is actually what I started with when I looked at exploring alternatives. I had problems getting the build working properly, which seems odd. In hindsight that may have wound up being due to some problems during our switch to a newer version of Cucumber. But, one thing I didn't like is that there is no state maintained, so if you stop and start cijoe, it loses track of all its previous builds. This may or may not matter much to you, but I didn't like that. I also didn't want to spend time writing notifiers/CCMenu integration type stuff for our needs. I will ay that cijoe setup/install is pretty cool.


• Run Code Run doesn't have a viable plan for us yet, plus I've heard having it run custom rake tasks and such doesn't work (wrong?). Furthermore, I didn't really want our private code on their servers and didn't see a need to outsource this.


• others... either hadn't heard of them, they didn't work well with Rails, or whatever - upshot, Integrity worked, got it up and running fairly fast, and didn't need to spend any more time on this.

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Anyway, my main thing against multiple machines, after having spent many years with anywhere between 2 and 5 machines (mostly while working for Adobe), was the maintenance and synchronization of those machines. So, now that I'm back to 2, I am back to wanting/needing my data on whatever computer I'm using. These days this also really extends to my iPhone to some degree as well. It's my truly portable computer. So, with all the "cloud" computing/services these days, this is to some degree easier. I'm not that big a fan of Google having all my data, but I will use the services that are the best in class, or best for my needs, and no doubt some of that is Google, but there are many others.

I have not gotten all my data truly available on all the computers I want it on, or as well as I'd like yet, but I'm getting closer. Also, I agree with Al3x in that if the data is important, only having it on a free cloud service is not wise. I haven't fully followed that, but that is part of my plan. Here's some notes on what I've done so far...

Email

This one is easy. I use Gmail for all my email accounts (about 15 if you count across various domains and so on). Right off, this is one case where this is the only place my data/email lives, so I'm only solving the accessible from anywhere issue. But, I'm also of the mind that I could pretty much lose all my email and be fine. If there are truly important things in it, that data tends to wind up getting put in somewhere else (EverNote, etc., see below) as appropriate. Gmail is so much better than any other Email. I even use it for some non-traditional things, like all our recipes are stored in a Gmail account. Makes it easy to trade recipes amongst friends and family, great for searching, and again, I can get to it from anywhere I can access the web.

Further, I use MailPlane as my actual mail client. It is a very rare day that I use a web browser to view Gmail. On the iPhone I just use the regular iPhone mail client, which has some drawbacks, but for my needs is ok.

Notes and Misc Data

This is the place that recently changed and has become an outstanding solution. I used to use 37signals Backpack, but now use EverNote. EverNote is really quite amazing. I hadn't noticed the Notebooks before, and that's been a great feature for me to do high level organization. Then, the searching is quite good (and of course Backpack essentially didn't even have searching). But, what really swung this over was their desktop client, web storage, and then iPhone client. This gives me great desktop performance, but then access from any web browser, as well as iPhone, AND I get the data stored locally and off-site (i.e. on the web). Furthermore, it sync's across computers. So, I feel like the data I have here is very safe (since it's in at least 3 places). Even better, this allowed me to stop paying for Backpack (my use of EverNote is nowhere close to their paid account). I don't mind paying for software at all, but I had felt that I wasn't getting the solution I wanted from Backpack, so didn't want to pay for that any longer.

Code

GitHub and Git. Do I need to say more?

Bookmarks

Two things here: .Mac and Delicious. I use Safari as my primary browser, and leverage it's Bookmark Bar for common stuff, so sync that across machines and iPhone with .Mac. Delicious gets all the other bookmarks.

RSS/News Feeds

Another recent change was to stop using NetNewsWire which I've used forever, and switch to Google Reader. Specifically what made this work well was creating a Fluid app with the Helvetireader styling. NNW had sync via NewsGator, but it really just didn't work well. It didn't seem to keep the list of feeds in sync, and then it's sync during feed download just didn't seem to cut it. So now, with the fluid app, and then just plain Reader (via browser) on the iPhone seems to solve this all nicely.

Documents

So far this is a mix of using DropBox and Google Docs. DropBox is awesome for keeping files in sync across machines, and then also available on the web. I've been ramping up my use of DropBox.

Things that Aren't sufficiently solved yet

Calendar and Address Book

Update: I'm now using .Mac to sync Address Book, seems to work great.

I'm using iCal and Address Book. Primarily this is due to the super easy sync with the iPhone. I can sync two computers with BusySync or some other things, but haven't seen a great solution yet, as well as haven't investigated that much. Even with .mac I think you still have to have a primary calendar and you're publishing to the other, etc.

I've used Google Calendar in the past, but didn't like it that much, and part of all this is ensuring sync is brain dead easy and solid. My wife and I sync calendars with BusySync, but that has been spotty. The various Google/iCal sync things I've tried have been iffy in the past. And, the real key is, how well will it sync Google cal to the iPhone calendar? An area I need to learn more about.

Address Book, not sure of my options here either. Sync's nicely with iPhone, and .Mac so far.

Music and Photos

I've yet to see an iTunes sync thing that works really well. We tried TuneRanger but it was not good when dealing with two existing libraries. Also, we have a lot of music, so keeping it backed up on S3 or similar actually starts to cost real money. Of course these days, the primary need for this is to sync to my iPhone. Most of the time at home I'm listening to Pandora or some similar thing. I use Pandora a lot on the iPhone, but I also listen to various podcasts, and then there are times when Pandora isn't feasible (crappy/no signal, or I'm needing to use another app on the phone while listening to music).

These same issues hold true for photos/Lightroom libraries. With Lightroom so far, for each calendar year, I have a Lightroom catalog, and then at the end of those years, I burn DVD's with the photos. Of course, the DVD's are just sitting in our house right now, not in a safe deposit box, etc. (we used to do that, but haven't since we moved to Oregon - lazy). But my bigger concern here is that I'd like my Lightroom library to stay in sync across my two machines, so I can use the burly Mac Pro when working at home, but then have my MBP when on the road.

I guess that's it for now. What solutions do you like? What are people doing for large data (GB's or TB's of music, photos, video, etc.)?

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The first issue, which likely affects anyone using this, is that it appears that if you combine and cache CSS or JavaScript via tags like this in Rails:

<%= stylesheet_link_tag :standard, :cache => 'standard' %>  <%= javascript_include_tag :jquery, :cache => 'jquery_all' %>

The ":standard" and ":jquery" symbols are expansion symbols for multiple CSS/JavaScript files defined in a Rails initializer. On the first request Rails gets, it's supposed to combine all the files as per the expansion symbol definition, and then produce a "cache" file, so you have a single file that is included in your HTML.

This worked fine for us under Mongrel, but it didn't seem to regenerate under Passenger after doing a deploy, even with a restart to Passenger. We had to do a second restart of Passenger, and then hit the server at least twice, if not more to see it get picked up.

Thanks to a tip from Engine Yard, one solution can be found on the overstimulate blog, where they detail how you can add a rake task that you call during deploy to regenerate those cache files. This is really even a nicer solution under Mongrel and others, as it will mean it doesn't occur during your first request.

The second problem seems confined to my MacBook Pro laptop (no problem on my MacPro tower). That is, I simply cannot get Nginx+Passenger to work. It installs fine, Nginx runs, but I get some odd permissions problem from Passenger:

2009/05/12 11:57:52 [alert] 19611#0: could not create /var/folders/7m/7m7ezMSTHdiBHz5bzVyNDE+++TI/-Tmp-//passenger.19596/control_process.pid (13: Permission denied)2009/05/12 12:01:19 [crit] 19611#0: *1 connect() to unix:/var/folders/7m/7m7ezMSTHdiBHz5bzVyNDE+++TI/-Tmp-//passenger.19596/master/helper_server.sock failed (13: Permission denied) while connecting to upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: dealbase.dev, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "unix:/var/folders/7m/7m7ezMSTHdiBHz5bzVyNDE+++TI/-Tmp-//passenger.19596/master/helper_server.sock:", host: "dealbase.dev"

The first line of those two lines occurs when I start Nginx. The second happens when I try to surf to a page from my app in my browser (which makes sense given the first error :) If anyone has any suggestions on this one, let me know!

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At DealBase, we have an opening for a part-time front end Rails developer at DealBase.com. The opening is for US residents only, and for individuals, no agencies or recruiters please. Most likely you'd be working remotely/telecommuting. The job posting, which is posted in several places, such as Rubynow, Working With Rails, and Rubyjobs.in, covers all the details, but I'll relist it here for ease:

I'm excited to find a great developer to work with. DealBase has been an awesome company and app to work on, and we're already experiencing great success. We have some pretty cool features planned, and it'd be ideal to get some real CSS and JavaScript ninja skills making those features even better. So, if this is you, please do get in touch, making sure to send email to the right email address as outlined in the job description.

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