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Ruby and Rails Development

Web Applications

StepsForFun in beta

Steps for fun is a web application that lets you track the number of steps you take each day. In today's health conscience world, there is a movement for people to be more active. One way is to walk more. It recommended that we should walk 10,000 steps a day.

stepsforfun.com is a web based log where you can log the number of steps you took on a given day.

It has budding social network capability which lets you see how well your friends are doing.

So check it out and let me know what you think.

ArgumentError (wrong number of arguments (0 for 1)) Explained

What is ArgumentError (wrong number of arguments (0 for 1)) really telling you? Well a little experiment made it clearer for me.

The following method takes one argument:

def poop(arg1)
#do some work
end

If you then call this method like so...

poop()

You will get the error ArgumentError (wrong number of arguments (0 for 1)).

poop("one", "two") will get you this error:

ArgumentError (wrong number of arguments (2 for 1))

So the first number indicates the number of arguments passed and the second number indicates the number of arguments expected.

Welcome to my blog

I wrote this blog software in Ruby on Rails and deployed it to Heroku.

This is by far the easiest way to do ROR. At least from a deployment standpoint. Heroku makes this idiot proof. Believe me when I say that if I can do it, anyone can.

As I develop more applications, I will report here on my trials and tribulations working with ROR and Heroku. So far, Heroku appears to take the pain out of deployment. Hopefully, it will be around for a long time.

Deploy to Heroku

These are my simple steps to deploy an application written in Ruby on Rails to Heroku.

1. mkdir projects
2. cd projects
3. rails blog -d postgresql
4. cd blog
5. git init && git add . && git commit -m "first commit"
6. heroku create - Then develop your app.
7. git push heroku master
8. heroku rake db:migrate
9. heroku open
10. git rm -r -f log
11. git rm -r -f tmp
12. mkdir log
13. echo '*.log' > log/.gitignore
14. git add log
15. echo tmp >> .gitignore
16. git add .gitignore
17. git commit -m "ignore log files and tmp dir"
18. createdb blog_development
19. createdb blog_test
20. createdb blog_production
21. git add .
22. git status # To see what needs to be added and committed.
23. git commit -m "added locations"
24. git push heroku master # Push the latest to heroku
25. heroku rake db:migrate

I'm not sure why but when I did my last updates to remove some un-needed files from the git repo, git wanted me to use this command:

git commit -a -m "Some comment"

I'll have to research why this was so.

Uxbridge Friends of Music Goes Live

This is a not for profit organization promoting music in Uxbridge Massachusetts.

www.uxbridgefriendsofmusic.org

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