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Planet Argon Blog »

Created at: 17.02.2010 17:11, source: Robby on Rails, tagged: Business PLANET ARGON planetargon Blog podcast

Just a quick update to let you know that I’ll be moving more of my business-related topics to the Planet Argon Blog. I invite you to subscribe to that feed as well. :-)

p.s. We just published Episode 4 of the Planet Argon Podcast, which was on the topic of Hiring designers.

Ruby and Rails Magazines available to Buy or download »

Created at: 19.03.2009 00:03, source: Slash Dot Dash, tagged: Blog Ruby on Rails

The thriving Ruby and Rails communities have produced a couple of magazines that you can buy (to show your support) or download PDF versions absolutely free.

Rails Magazine - Issue 1 (1st March 2009)

The Beginning; 36 pages of Rails goodness.

• Receiving E-Mail With Rails by Jason Seifer
• Delegation in Ruby by Khaled al Habache
• Subscription billing with Saasy by Alex MacCaw
• Making the Switch From RSpec to Shoulda by Dan Pickett
• Playing Hooky a.k.a. web hooks by John Nunemaker
• Adhearsion by Jason Goecke & Jay Phillips
• Rails Performance Analysis by Terry Heath
• Getting Started with JRuby and JRuby on Rails by Joshua Moore
• Extending Rails Through Plugins by John Yerhot

Buy Now or Download for free.

The Rubyist - Issue 1 (August 2008)

Hampton Catlin, Rein Henrichs, and friends in the first issue of the Rubyist. INSIDE: An interview with Rein Henrichs on Ruby best practices, an interview with Hampton Catlin about Jabl, columns from Giles Bowkett and Rein Henrichs, a Ruby quiz-esque challenge (you can win an iPhone! Yes, you!), building DataMapper adapters, Ben Scofield shares some techniques for auditing your code, using RubyOSA with Evan Light, Yehuda Katz waxes rhapsodic on performance measures in Merb, and learning about building gems with BDD from Jamie van Dyke!

Buy Now or Download for free.

The Rubyist - Issue 2 (February 2009)

• Regional conferences with Pat Eyler
• Talking about the Rails merge with Zach Inglis, and interviews with DHH, Ted Han, and more
• Scott Chacon drops some Git knowledge
• Yehuda Katz discusses his journey from Rails to Merb to Rails
• Martin Rehfeld shares his solution from last issue’s homework
• Obie Fernandez talks about client managment
• Aaron Quint spends some time with Sinatra
• Evan David Light talks BDD
• Ben Scofield talks about testing iPhone applications using Ruby
• Eric Hodel talks about the next generation of RubyGems
• Dennis Theisen teaches how to use ActiveMerchant
• Carlo Pecchia shows off JRuby

Buy Now or Download for free.



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Migrating this blog from Typo to WordPress »

Created at: 02.01.2009 16:50, source: Slash Dot Dash, tagged: Blog Typo

After recently installing Phusion Passenger under Apache 2 to host my Rails apps I wanted to give Ruby Enterprise Edition a go. However as I was running an old version of Typo (version 4.x) which didn’t seem to like running under REE I decided to migrate to WordPress; upgrading Typo would be just as much work. 

There’s already a Ruby upgrade script to create a WordPress compatible WXR file for importing which includes all posts, comments and categories from Typo. I needed to modify the Ruby script slightly to get working with the version of Typo I had installed.

Exporting Typo blog content to WordPress WXR

The Ruby script needs to be placed into the script directory of the Typo application root and then run under the production Rails environment:

RAILS_ENV=production ruby script/wp_export.rb > blog.wxr

Installing WordPress

Simply follow the basic WordPress install guide after downloading the latest software (version 2.7 at the time of writing). The pre-requisites for WordPress are PHP 4.3 or newer and MySQL 4.0 or greater.

Import existing content

Once WordPress is installed, log in to the admin section and select Import from the Tools menu. Choose the WordPress option from the list (Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags from a WordPress export file). You’ll need to select the blog.wxr file created by the Ruby script and then click Upload file and import. That should recreate your existing Typo blog content (and comments), you may be asked to map the Typo user(s) to WordPress accounts.

With the content installed, the final change required is to setup the Permalink Settings from Settings > Permalinks. Select the Day and name option (giving URLs such as http://www.slashdotdash.net/2009/01/02/sample-post/). You may need to manually edit or create the .htaccess file to get the rewrite rules working.

# .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

With this working you should find that the standard Typo permalinks (such as http://www.slashdotdash.net/articles/2009/01/02/sample-post/) will now redirect to the corresponding WordPress blog entry, ensuring no broken links when switching from Typo to WordPress.

Known Issues

You’ll probably have a problem with RSS feed readers creating duplicates of the last 10 posts (depending upon your “Syndication feeds show the most recent” settings) since the post URLs and GUIDs will have changed.