2010 US Open live high quality stream

US Open has their high quality stream going again this year!

http://www.usopen.org/en_US/interactive/video/live.html?promo=slamtracker

You have got to be kidding

Just did a search and ended up on msdn


I use Google Chrome for most of my web browsing - the msdn site pops up this 'Ad' to 'upgrade' to IE 8 - LOL!!!

ruby 1.9.2 and rails 3rc with rvm

Get up and running with rails 3 release candidate on ruby 1.9.2

First step install rvm (ruby version manager) - note that rvm does not work on windows, for windows try pik

You will need to wait between each step as installation times will vary

# install 1.9.2 using rvm
 rvm install 1.9.2  
# this installed the official release 1.9.2-p0

# switch to 1.9.2
 rvm 1.9.2 
# gem install rails rc
 gem install rails --pre 

# create a new rails app, in this case 'sample-r3', this differs from older versions of rails; new is a required arg 

 rails new sample-r3 
# navigate to the root of your new rails app
 cd sample-r3 
# install the app dependencies - in this case sqlite3, see Gemfile in the root dir
 bundle install 

# generate a user scaffold, note g is shortcut for generate

 rails g scaffold User name:string email:string 

# create the database table users

 rake db:migrate 

# start up the rails server, note s is shortcut for server

 rails s 

Browse to http://localhost:3000/users and we are up and running and yes the scaffold pages still have the same old look and feel

In the past I have tried installing and running rails3 beta and rc on different versions of ruby and ran into some serious difficulties; but it has been painless on the official release of ruby 1.9.2

As a final step we want to add a .rvmrc file to the root of the rails project, this will force rvm to load the correct ruby version when we are in this directory. This can be quite handy, if we were on a different version of ruby running 'rails s' would create a new rails app directory named 's' instead of running the server; from the terminal run

 echo "rvm 1.9.2" > .rvmrc 

I learned about the .rvmrc file from this post

Updated Look!

Just switched to a different Blogger Template - much wider and mo better!

Also consolidated my posting, I had 20+ code samples on another blog. Used the Blogger import / export tool which was pretty seamless; needed to move a few code blocks over to gists to get proper formatting but that was it!

valid? vs errors.any? in rails

Recently got bit by checking valid? in some rails code, thought I would share.

In this situation I was manually adding to the errors collection of an ActiveRecord object and then calling valid? to see if the object was ok; this is not the normal style of validation on ActiveRecord objects, if I had been playing by the rules valid? would have done what I needed; it would check the current state of my objects attributes and 're-validate' the object.

This screen shot of an irb console session shows the issue I was running into

Taking a look at the source code for valid? it becomes obvious why the manually added errors get cleared, just not what I expected to happen

Adjustable Height Desks

Both of these look like pretty sweet adjustable height desks;

- Geek Desk electronic and runs $750 to $800

or

- Airtouch uses air and no electronics - twice the price at $1500

hopefully I'll be able to try one of these out soon