FLPR comments

"Database-less Testing" by Jim Weirich

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 05:17:07 -0700

Just a note about the whole redefine thing: Hacks like this are playing around with some of the internals of Rake, and as such, it is not a publically supported API. There is no guarantee going forward that the internals will not change again as they did for 0.7.0. (I.e. my hack given above is just that, a hack with no guarantee of future support).

Not that I mind this kind of stuff. In fact, it is hacks like this that help me determine where rake needs to go in the future.

So, with that disclaimer in mind, have fun.

"Database-less Testing" by Jim Weirich

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 05:06:06 -0700

Rake 0.7.0 has done some significant internal reorganizations. In particular, the task list is now stored in a Rake application object, possibly allowing multiple rake dependency trees in a single application. Therefore the task management functions were take out of the Task class and moved to a TaskManager class. The following hack should provide the same functionality as the above code.

module Rake
  module TaskManager
     # Clear all existing actions for the given task and then set the
     # action for the task to the given block.
     def redefine_task(task_class, args, &block)
       task_name, deps = resolve_args(args)
       @tasks.delete(task_name.to_s)
       define_task(task_class, args, &block)
     end
   end

   class Task
     def self.redefine_task(args, &block)
       Rake.application.redefine_task(self, args, &block)
     end
   end
end

# Clear all existing actions for the given task and then set the
# action for the task to the given block.
def redefine_task(args, &block)
   Rake::Task.redefine_task(args, &block)
end

I would point out that the redefine_task command will always redefine the named task to be a plain old vanilla Task, even if it was a FileTask or MultiTask previously.

"Database-less Testing" by indy

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:47:47 -0700

The redefine_task doesn’t work with rake-0.7.0, it gives the error:

undefined method 'resolve_args' for Rake::Task:Class

rake-0.6.2 seems be fine however

Indy

"Any interest in FLPR hosting?" by Scott

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:01:04 -0700

Pre-configured virtual private servers (using Xen) or dedicated servers with the FLPR setup (along with Apache & Subversion, Trac, Postfix, DNS) would be awesome. No shared hosting needed, I’m trying to get away from that! :)

"Any interest in FLPR hosting?" by Sean

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:17:18 -0700

I wish DreamHost ran on Open or Free BSD and supported Lighty, Postgres and Rails … I think their pricing is the best (for the amount of disk and bandwidth).

"Setting up Subversion Access through Apache" by Greg Edwards

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:05:34 -0700

The newest version of SVN enables all of the same settings for svnserve as it does for Apache mod_dav_svn. I’ve been wanting to do the same thing you just did, and I just noticed that now it can be done in svnserve without apache!

"Any interest in FLPR hosting?" by Yogi

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:17:49 -0700

Pat,

Yes I had read Ezra’s recommendation. I just blogged about this too http://jroller.com/page/yogi?entry=rails_web_host_recommendations_needed

-Yogi

"Intro to FLPR" by Pat

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 06:42:55 -0700

Hey Yogi,

I don’t know of any hosting providers that host on this platform. Your best bet is to get a dedicated server or a VPS, most likely. My server is hosted at LayeredTech, who I absolutely love. However if you’re only running a couple small apps a dedi would be overkill, so you’d want to go with a VPS to save $$. Ezra Zygmuntowicz says he’s had good luck with http://rimuhosting.com. His blog is worth reading for deployment info, and he’s actually writing a deployment book that will be published by PP.

Lately I’ve kind of been thinking about offering FLPR hosting..not sure what kind of interest there would be though. In fact I think I’ll make a post now just to get an idea :)

"Intro to FLPR" by Yogi

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 05:43:25 -0700

Hi Pat,

This is exactly the platform that I plan on using for my upcoming rails websites, but I haven’t found a hosting provider that seems right.

Could you share some experiences on hosting providers you use (or have heard of) for FLPR apps.

-Yogi

"Setting up Subversion Access through Apache" by Pat

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:38:55 -0700

Quote from the article:

Unfortunately we can’t use lighttpd for the task because it doesn’t support mod_dav_svn.