http://flip.netzbeben.de development, music, design and inspiration Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:02:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's a tool called LVPM which could do the move, but there are sometimes problems with it. So I recommend to use a faster and safer way to do it - with the wubi-move-to-partition script: Boot into your Wubi installation. Open a shell and do a: wget "https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=wubi-move-to-partition" Install and run gparted: sudo apt-get install ... http://flip.netzbeben.de/2008/08/move-wubi-installation-ubuntu-on-windows-to-a-native-ubuntu-system/ RedCloth doesn't come with support for smilies, so i've added it for one of my projects. You need to extend the RedCloth class. You could do this by creating a file in your /lib directory, which you have to include in your environment.rb. Here an example for three simple smilies: class RedCloth ... http://flip.netzbeben.de/2008/07/smilies-in-rails-using-redcloth/ Rails doesn't seem to like dots and other special chars in its routes. If you want to use URLs like http://www.domain.com/post/1/just_a_test.. logically the following route seems to be sensible: map.connect '/post/:id/:title', :controller => 'forum', :action => 'show_post' But rails won't like the dots. Use a route like the following to allow a URL ... http://flip.netzbeben.de/2008/07/rails-routes-and-special-characters-like-dots/ http://flip.netzbeben.de/2008/06/ruhe/ If you want to provide a username and password for a HTTP Basic Authentication in one of your functional tests, simply use the following: def test_should_get_index @request.env["HTTP_AUTHORIZATION"] = "Basic " + Base64::encode64("username:password") get :index assert_response :success assert_not_nil assigns(:articles) end Keywords: rails test, functionals, authorization, basic http authentication, how to ... http://flip.netzbeben.de/2008/06/functional-test-for-http-authentication-in-rails-2/ If you need to show a 404 error page from your controller without using an exception, this could help: render :file => "#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/404.html", :status => 404 and return http://flip.netzbeben.de/2008/06/404-in-rails/ I've tried to use the new authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic function of Rails 2 to include a simple authentication for some special pages in an application. But Apache kept refusing authorization, even if the authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic-block was set to be always true. To fix this, add or change this in your public/.htaccess (if using FastCGI): RewriteRule ... http://flip.netzbeben.de/2008/06/authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic-and-apache/ Another piece of great emo http://flip.netzbeben.de/2008/03/save-my-life/ That's what I'd call EMO. http://flip.netzbeben.de/2008/01/okkervil-river/ I've transferred a wordpress system to another server which runs PHP 5. The language file didn't work anymore. After one annoying hour I've found out that the gettext functions are buggy. Solution: Get the current version of php-gettext at http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/php-gettext/ Extract the gettext.php and streams.php to your wp-includes-directory That's all. Keywords: wordpress, localization, php ... http://flip.netzbeben.de/2008/01/localization-problem-with-wordpress-23/