danhixon

~/sources/dm-core(master)
domU-12-31-39-02-F4-E8 $ rake package
(in /root/sources/dm-core)
rake aborted!
no such file to load -- spec/rake/spectask
/root/sources/dm-core/Rakefile:6
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

danhixon

=begin
Upgraded to rails 2.3.4 and got the following error:

undefined method self_and_descendants_from_active_record for Class:Object

My class doesn't descend from ActiveRecord but I was using ActiveRecord::Errors for validations

attr_accessor :errors
def initialize
  #this hack is to get an instance of ActiveRecord::Errors:

danhixon

Loading development environment (Rails 2.3.4)
>> r = Rule.first
=> #<Rule @id=1 @name="Send Call" @description=<not loaded> @last_run_at=Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:37:58 -0800 @is_auto_approved=false @send_only_unique=false>
>> require 'pp'
=> ["PP"]
>> pp r["description"]
"Awesome customers get good stuff."
=> nil

danhixon

>> ActionRequest.all(:approved_at=>nil, :cancelled_at=>nil).aggregate(:rule_id, :all.count, :created_at.max)
ArgumentError: +options[:fields]+ entry nil of an unsupported object NilClass
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/dm-core-0.10.1/lib/dm-core/query.rb:693:in `assert_valid_fields_without_operator'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/dm-core-0.10.1/lib/dm-core/query.rb:680:in `each'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/dm-core-0.10.1/lib/dm-core/query.rb:680:in `assert_valid_fields_without_operator'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/dm-aggregates-0.10.1/lib/dm-aggregates/query.rb:23:in `assert_valid_fields'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/dm-core-0.10.1/lib/dm-core/query.rb:656:in `assert_valid_options'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/dm-core-0.10.1/lib/dm-core/query.rb:654:in `each'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/dm-core-0.10.1/lib/dm-core/query.rb:654:in `assert_valid_options'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/dm-core-0.10.1/lib/dm-core/query.rb:598:in `initialize'

danhixon

$ gem list | grep mongo
mongo (0.16)
$ irb
>> require 'mongo'
=> true
>> include Mongo
=> Object
>> db = Connection.new('localhost').db('testingmg')
=> #<Mongo::DB:0x1017ebfb0 @host="localhost", @name="testingmg", @pk_factory=nil, @socket=#<TCPSocket:0x1017ebd08>, @slave_ok=nil, @strict=nil, @semaphore=#<Mutex:0x1017ebe48>, @nodes=[["localhost", 27017]], @auto_reconnect=nil, @port=27017, @logger=nil>
>> coll = db.collection('Person')

danhixon

/*
Requirements: 
1. A table of zip codes that contain latitude and longitude columns.

   Mine is called zip_codes and has the following relative columns:
         city, state, zip, latitude, longitude

   These datasets are available for sale online.

This data seems to be free from http://geocoder.ibegin.com/downloads.php

danhixon

# Building on the zips_near_zip procedure in this gist: http://gist.github.com/319908
# I added a named scope to my model which has an attribute of "service_address_id":

# call to sanitize_sql_array to avoid sql injection.

named_scope :near_zip, lambda { |zip, miles| 
   { :joins=>sanitize_sql_array(["join addresses 
                on service_address_id=addresses.id 
              join zips_near_zip(?,?) 
                on zip_code = zip",zip, miles]) }

danhixon

require "rubygems" 
require 'twitter'
require "highline/import"

username = ask("Username: ")
password = ask("Enter your password: ") { |q| q.echo = '*' }    
httpauth = Twitter::HTTPAuth.new(username, password)
client = Twitter::Base.new(httpauth)

danhixon

def s;"def s;;end;puts s()[0,6]+34.chr+s+34.chr+s()[6,s.length-6]";end;puts s()[0,6]+34.chr+s+34.chr+s()[6,s.length-6]

danhixon

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screen -r

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Ctrl+a, d

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Ctrl+a, k