Medplaya Aparthotel Esmeraldas, Tossa de Mar Spain

Calle Vilafranca del Penedés s/n,
Costa Brava
Tossa de Mar, Girona 17320
Spain

Great town! and this was a perfect place to stay, very inexpensive, functional not fancy


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The hotel is not near the beach but the walk is very enjoyable, probably 10 minutes or so.

Hotel Front Maritim, Barcelona Spain

Paseo Garcia Faria 69
Barcelona 08019
Spain


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This was a really nice hotel. It is a bit far from the 'downtown' areas but really close to a really nice beach!

It is 4 blocks from the 'Selva de Mar' metro stop. If you are coming from the airport take a metro to 'Passeig de Gracia' and then get on the line to 'La Pau', the Selva stop is 4th to the last stop.






There is also a stop near the hotel on the red tourist bus route; a nice day out to grab the bus and see the sights of town and then get dropped off right out side the hotel.

There is an awesome place to eat two blocks from the hotel Els Peixaters de la Mediterrania. They have great tapas and we ate dinner there one night - one of the best I have ever had!

The beach was crowded on a very warm Sunday - there were not too many people on the weekdays.

Spain

We just returned from 2 weeks in Spain (Catalonia really). One of the best vacations ever! Great food, great beaches and great history and culture!

below are some links to hotels we stayed at, might be of use to someone?

• Hotel Front Maritim, Barcelona
  
• Medplaya Aparthotel Esmeraldas, Tossa de Mar
• Hotel Costabella, Girona
• Husa Imperial Tarraco, Tarragona
• Frontair Congress, Barcelona
  

Secure your Gmail

yeah - you DO want to run gmail over https; I am surprised this is not the default and I am surprised I did not already have this setting turned on.

In gmail click the settings link in the upper right hand corner


Then scroll to the bottom and select 'Always use https' in the Browser connection section
This came up while I was watching a great screen cast 'Security - What rails will and won't do for you', it was from 'Scotland On Rails Presentations', there are 27 different presentations and all downloadable

PGError: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "tablename_pkey"

Using Postgresql I ran into the following error when trying to create a new record through my rails application

• PGError: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "tablename_pkey"

Found this link which had the needed fix;

Dealing with 'duplicate key violates unique constraint' on the primary key

apparently with Postgresql after bulk loading records where the auto incrementing id is specified you then need to update the sequence value

bash scirpt to launch rails development environment

here is a bash script I put together to launch my rails development environment, i got tired of opening multiple terminal windows and cd to the project dir, this script

• launches script/server in a terminal window
• launches a new terminal and cd to the trunk
• launches firefox at http://localhost:3000 with a specific firefox profile
• and launches Komodo Edit - go ahead and pick the editor of your choice
  

this works on Ubuntu, probably on other Linux distro's that use Gnome



I saved this in a file ~/scripts/launch_YOUR_PROJECT.sh
to execute this open a terminal and type ~$ bash ./scripts/launch_YOUR_PROJECT.sh
or create a symlink in your home directory



then execute using ~$ bash launch_YOUR_PROJECT

NOTE: in theory you should not need to even specify bash at the command prompt, when I did not I received the following error "bash: launch_YOUR_PROJECT: command not found"
running 'which bash' returns '/bin/bash' which is specified in the shell script?, something to look into later.