Getting ActiveScaffold 1.1.1 to Work With Rails 2.1.0

Written on June 24, 2008 by matt | 5 Comments

When I wrote about a Rails development container I kinda left off with “it all worked and everyone’s happy!” This post goes into a bit of detail about how I upgraded Rails (and ActiveScaffold) to use the newer versions. It’s not that this all that tough or clever but there’s not a lot of information on it.

I followed this wiki page about the process. It definitely gets things going.
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Building a Rails Development OpenSolaris Container

Written on June 22, 2008 by matt | 1 Comment

A bit over a year ago I started working with Ruby on Rails and ActiveScaffold for an in-house scheduling application I was building for a new consulting client. At the time the version of Rails was 1.2.3 and ActiveScaffold was somewhere before beta. The project went great and everyone was happy. They’ve been using the app now for a year, managing scheduling of over 600 people for close to 1,000 events.

Recently the client came back with some requests for changes and I figured it was a good time to upgrade versions. I didn’t make a rookie mistake though and upgrade all of the versions on my MacBook Pro development box. No, in that way lies madness. You’ll goof up the Rails upgrade and all of a sudden you have no way to develop. Instead I decided to use my OpenSolaris test server (faithfully running in the basement, right next to the weight bench and the Christmas decorations) and a specially created Container just for this purpose.

What follows is a record of my experiment. I’ll spoil the surprise–I got it to work! But I uncovered a few things along the way that surprised me and I wanted to share. Doubtless one of the gurus at Sun (or even Joyent I reckon) could have short circuited some of the problems I encountered, but to be honest I had a pretty good time here. Well, except when it came time to building Mongrel with its dependent C code using friends, but that’s for later on.

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