What's your $20 worth nowadays?

March 19, 2007 @ 06:38 AM | posted by carmelyne

(last updated: 06.28.07)

For a mere $20 and a few reading here and there with some fallbacks and re-installs, I got my slice on Slicehost set up over the weekend. Its fairly cheap but guess what I got away with by investing just 20 dollars on a slice, I thinks it's PRICELESS. I learned to set up a rails production server on my slice using Ubuntu and LiteSpeed. I'm pretty happy with what I've learned. I did set up everything from scratch. First was getting Ruby1.8, Ruby Gem, Rails1.2, PostFix, MySql, Subversion and finally LiteSpeed3.0. I was always intimidated by having to do so much playing around with server side stuff. But not this time. I think this is one of the cleanest and easiest way to deploy a Rails app in production mode.

By Monday night, I have a Mephisto Blog up on carmelyne.mobi which will eventually replace this site. and a Beast forum on intricate.mobi for kicks. Now I just have to learn Liquid for templating which doesnt look so hard.

So what's your $20 worth to you :)

[ Last updated: June 28, 2007 @ 11:05 PM ]

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Snippets of 06/24/07

Rails 'A'..'Z' Paginate

# Starts with 'A'..'Z' Paginate / model
def self.sort(sort)
  if sort
    find(:all, :conditions => ['name LIKE ?', "#{sort}%"])
  else
    find(:all, :order => 'name')
  end  
end

# index action / controller
@models = Model.sort(params[:sort])

What's your $20 worth nowadays?

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