Mat Schaffer - Latest Comments

Re: How to hire a Rails developer

Mat Schaffer — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:43:23 -0000

Hehe... Well it was partly tongue-in-cheek. But it _is_ getting about due time for a new blog post.

-Mat

Re: How to hire a Rails developer

Sarah Johnson — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:52:19 -0000

so when will that blog post be published? :)

Re: How to hire a Rails developer

Mat Schaffer — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:18:00 -0000

Thanks for the comment! I think you're correct here. But I think the points above stand for gaining the attention of both good and average programmers alike. Discerning between the two is another blog post entirely :)

Re: How to hire a Rails developer

Agus @ Ruby on Rails — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:12:23 -0000

Rails is not that different from any other MVC framework. Anyone who has used Struts+Hibernate in the Java World can start working on Rails easily.
I think working with Rails and being a good Ruby developer are different things. Finding a good Ruby developer is harder. A good Ruby developer with decipher the internals of the Rails implementation , understand the philosophy , and extend it, the average one will just follow the book.

Re: Installing ImageMagick on OS X Leopard

Patrick — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:13:00 -0000

stumbled upon this whilst trying to install ImageMagick...

Thought I'd shared what I did since it was very simple. After installing Homebrew, I simply did
- brew install imagemagick

Hope this helps!

Re: Migrating from Perforce to Subversion

Lisa Hunt — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:14:35 -0000

Hi, J.C.

Did you ever find a resolution to the git-p4 problem? I am facing the same p4->svn challenge, and our project size is 115G. I may be able to run the script on Linux - I don't know if that will improve the memory situation. I do not know git, but the p42svn script is breaking for us after 10 changelists. I am looking for alternatives.

Lisa Hunt

Re: How to hire a Rails developer

David — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:52:08 -0000

this is very helpful as I am looking to hire a tech "co-founder". we launched a public beta recently and need to bring our tech in-house.

Re: Running CloudFoundry with VirtualBox on OS X

Mat Schaffer — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:57:04 -0000

It's possible. I've seen issues using bridged mode with VMWare Fusion on
wireless networks before. VirtualBox may have similar issues.

This VM uses bridged mode, but I've since started doing dual NIC VMs (Host +
NAT) which allows you to have a pretty similar model to VMWare Fusion's NAT
setting. Setting up the VM that way might also work around your networking
problem.

If you need any pointers let me know. I'll do my best to remember to update
this if I find anything as well. Thanks for reading/commenting!

Re: Running CloudFoundry with VirtualBox on OS X

pvth — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:13:11 -0000

i'm working a different location now.. and it seems that it works ok now..
i think it had something to do with the network settings.. but maybe that is something that can be fixed ?

Re: Running CloudFoundry with VirtualBox on OS X

pvth — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:33:01 -0000

Hey great article, but it doesn't seem to work on my mac.. i get a connection timeout while trying to install a ssh key. Does this have to do with some network settings ? because i'm on a different subnet that the ip that the image gets assigned ? any help on how to get an ip on the same subnet ?
Also.. the url's in this article changed i think curl -O https://github.com/matschaffer... curl -O https://github.com/matschaffer...

Thanks

Re: Using Runnables in the Redcar Editor

Mat Schaffer — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:43:58 -0000

Yes, if you write your own redcar ruby commands you'll need to take that
into account. There might actually already be some classes for doing that
since there are a number of commands (find in project, for example) that
take some time to complete.

But the basic Redcar::Command will block the UI until it completes (as far
as I can remember).

Re: Using Runnables in the Redcar Editor

Chris Guenther — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:39:07 -0000

Just realized that this can be achieved by combination of running such a long running computation in its own thread and using "Redcar::update_gui" later on to update the GUI.
Something like "Redcar::AsyncCommand" might make sense !?

Re: Using Runnables in the Redcar Editor

Chris Guenther — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:26:44 -0000

Nice, but is there a similar infrastructure in REDCAR that allows me to execute a long-running Redcar::Command's execute() callback asynchronuously (including async. update of the SWT UI), e.g. the following freezes the REDCAR's UI for 10 seconds :

class LongRunningCommand < Redcar::Command
      def execute
        sleep 10     # simluates long running activity to compute relevant data
         # now update data model which will indirectly update the SWT UI (e.g. some SWT tree widget)
    end
end

Re: How to hire a Rails developer

Wescb1 — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 06:02:26 -0000

Makes Sense

Re: Running CloudFoundry with VirtualBox on OS X

Marc Weinberger — Wed, 04 May 2011 17:53:01 -0000

Nice job, works like a charm.

Re: Running CloudFoundry with VirtualBox on OS X

gersh winou — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 07:45:52 -0000

i can confirm this, installing wget in the ubuntu server fix the problem

Re: Running CloudFoundry with VirtualBox on OS X

Mat Schaffer — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:04:13 -0000

Was this on your own OS image by any chance? Seems really weird that an
identical OS image would be inconsistent like this.

We're going to start turning these scripts into chef recipes soon, so it
should become a lot more robust.

Re: Running CloudFoundry with VirtualBox on OS X

Dillera — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:52:18 -0000

And a bunch of other stuff failed to, postgres etc.... again, all I did was apt-get install wget and re-ran your script, and everything came up fine. I'm testing out some of the sample apps that springsource has on git. This looks very interesting for some stuff we are doing now.

Re: Running CloudFoundry with VirtualBox on OS X

Dillera — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:50:42 -0000

Yes, it went bad around here:

Checking rubygems version
setup/vcap_setup: line 87: gem: command not found
Installing rubygems 1.6.2
~/cloudfoundry/vcap ~/cloudfoundry/vcap
setup/vcap_setup: line 91: wget: command not found
tar: rubygems-1.6.2.tgz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
setup/vcap_setup: line 93: cd: rubygems-1.6.2: No such file or directory
ruby: No such file or directory -- setup.rb (LoadError)
rm: cannot remove `rubygems-1.6.2.tgz': No such file or directory
~/cloudfoundry/vcap
Creating default directories at /var/vcap
setup/vcap_setup: line 116: bundle: command not found
Installing bundler 1.0.10
setup/vcap_setup: line 118: gem: command not found
Installing Nginx.
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
dpkg-preconfigure: unable to re-open stdin:
Selecting previously deselected package nginx.
(Reading database ... 41122 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nginx (from .../nginx_0.7.65-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Setting up nginx (0.7.65-1ubuntu2) ...

Re: Running CloudFoundry with VirtualBox on OS X

Mat Schaffer — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:41:34 -0000

What failed for you? Do some of the vcap stacks require wget?

Re: Running CloudFoundry with VirtualBox on OS X

Dillera — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:48:55 -0000

Nice job--- you just forgot to install wget in that install script... without it a bunch of things eventually fail as you can imagine.

Re: How to hire a Rails developer

Gordon — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:48:57 -0000

The last point is good. I'm a 11 years perl developer and have done 2yrs of rails. Yet I classify myself as a perl/rails person :)

Re: Running CloudFoundry with VirtualBox on OS X

robdimarco — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:38:10 -0000

Very cool.

Not sure if this is desired, but if you change the ssh command to include -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no, it should not ask you to accept the host key.

Re: How to hire a Rails developer

Todd — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 01:53:36 -0000

I have a small programming company, and hire everyone myself. Its hard to find good programmers, no question. Point 5, dont hire rails programmers is very intelligent. The thing that people should look for is good, passionate problem solvers. The people tend to like concise code - RAILS, but its important to realise that really there is nothing magic about rails. Also there is a bit of a rails bubble going on. That being said if anyone neeeds some programming help, we are finishing some projects next week :) http://about.me/toddmorrill

Re: How to hire a Rails developer

Test — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:15:27 -0000

nice