rx

    def drequiredopts(*names)
        names.each do |name|
            if self.send(name).nil?
                devfail("%s is a required option for %s" % [name, self.class])
            end
        end
    end

    # Iterate over a hash, treating each member as an attribute.
    def set_options(options)

rx

def post_xml( xml, path)
      url = URI.parse("http://[login]:[password]@[domain]/#{path}")
      req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path)
      userinfo = url.userinfo.split(':')
       req.basic_auth(userinfo[0], userinfo[1])
       req['Content-Type'] = "text/xml"
       req.body = xml
       @response = Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) do |http|
         http.request(req)
       end

rx

$ gem install hobo
ERROR:  Error installing hobo:
        hobo requires mislav-will_paginate (>= 2.2.1, runtime)

Fixed with:

$ gem install mislav-will_paginate -s http://gems.github.com

rx

Great articles on setting up postgres:
http://articles.slicehost.com/postgresql

rx

http://rubytester.com/blog/2009/08/12/using-local-watir-with-local-gem.html

rx

# 1) Point *.example.com in your DNS setup to your server.
#
# 2) Setup an Apache vhost to catch the star pointer:
#
# <VirtualHost *:80>
#   ServerName *.example.com
# </VirtualHost>
#
# 3) Set the current account from the subdomain
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base

rx

http://aac2009.confreaks.com/videos/06-feb-2009-14-30-writing-multi-tenant-applications-in-rails-guy-naor-small.mp4

Skip ahead to 22:55

Here is my retype of the application control logic to switch schemas using search paths in postgresql.

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base

	before_filter :set_account
	after_filter :clear_account

rx

http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2008/08/13/Mutli-Tenancy--multi-tenant-apps-and-frameworks.aspx

rx

How to enable Java in Ubuntu

Hi,

here is a short recipe how to enable Java applets and the Java console in Ubuntu (and others with the same installation tool set), compiled from a previous contribution and another hint somewhere:

sudo -i
apt-get update
apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts

rx

rails_root/
          accounts/apps/
                       controllers/
                       models/
                       views/
                       helpers/
                   specs/
                   lib/
          users/apps/
                       controllers/