http://blog.bhushangahire.net by Bhushan G Ahire Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:22:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 1: Create a new Rails app - we'll call is 'deploytest' $ rails deploytest $ cd deploytest 2: Create a local Git repository for it $ git init $ git add * $ git commit -a -m 'initial commit' $ git status 3: Create a couple of Capistrano files $ capify . 4: Edit config/deploy.rb # The name of your app set ... http://blog.bhushangahire.net/2010/02/17/setup-capistrano-to-deploy-rails-application-on-amazon-ec2-with-git/ Installing PostgreSQL 8.3 First, you’ll need to install Xcode if you haven’t already. This is available on the Snow Leopard DVD in the Optional Installs directory. Second, if you aren’t already using it, download Mac Ports for Snow Leopard and install it. Mac Ports has come a long way in the last ... http://blog.bhushangahire.net/2010/02/15/installing-postgresql-on-snow-leopard-10-6/ SOAP4R is a Ruby library for accessing Web Services via SOAP. Recently I had a chance to explore SOAP4R. Here's how to get started with it. Installation Although Ruby 1.8.x comes with SOAP4R in its standard library, it is an old, buggy version. I highly recommend ... http://blog.bhushangahire.net/2010/01/15/send-sms-from-ruby-on-rails-application-using-web-service-soap-api/ Active Merchant makes it extremely simple to use Paypal IPN. Here is a simple guide for getting IPN up and running. Sign up for a Paypal sandbox account Paypal provides a sandbox environment that mimics their production environment, with the exception that it doesn’t actually process the transactions. This is extremely ... http://blog.bhushangahire.net/2009/08/05/paypal-instant-payment-notification-in-rails-with-active-merchant/ Hi all as I worked on setting up 4 to 5 servers, I thought its better to document the stuff so that I/developers can refer it, So I am documenting the step-by-step process for setting up the slicehost server for rails application work with nginx as a web server and ... http://blog.bhushangahire.net/2009/07/22/step-by-step-setup-slicehost-server-fedora-for-rails-application/ I am using google apps for my domain www.bhushangahire.com For one of my rails application I am using this domain mail account setup for sending mails. But I am not able to send the mail with the default smtp setings we use for sending mail. So I search on net and I found ... http://blog.bhushangahire.net/2009/07/22/how-to-use-google-apps-mail-configuration-with-rails-application/ Grant privileges to all tables in a database (select, update, insert, delete) Eg:( Creating a read-only user in postgres) –Function to grant access(select,insert,update,delete) to users CREATE FUNCTION pg_grant(TEXT, TEXT, TEXT, TEXT) RETURNS integer AS ' DECLARE obj record; num integer; BEGIN num:=0; FOR obj IN SELECT relname FROM pg_class c JOIN pg_namespace ns ON (c.relnamespace = ns.oid) WHERE relkind in (''r'',''v'',''S'') ... http://blog.bhushangahire.net/2009/06/17/grant-privileges-to-all-tables-in-a-database-for-postgresql/ if (b.ie) { var filter = this.element.style.filter.replace(/alpha\s*\(\s*opacity\s*=\s*[0-9\.]{1,3}\)/, ''); this.element.style.filter = filter + 'alpha(opacity=' + parseInt(ht * 100, 10) + ')'; } else { this.element.style.opacity = ht; } this.element.style.visibility = 'visible'; this.element.style.display = 'block' } http://blog.bhushangahire.net/2009/05/26/transperent-div-for-all-browser/ Find below the code for finding location from IP address using IP location tools. require 'net/http' require 'rexml/document' include REXML class MapsController < ApplicationController def index @location = locateIp() end def locateIp ip = request.remote_ip ips = ip.to_s url = "http://iplocationtools.com/ip_query.php?ip="+ips xml_data = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url)).body xmldoc = REXML::Document.new(xml_data) # ... http://blog.bhushangahire.net/2009/05/20/get-location-from-ip-address-in-ruby-on-rails-for-free/ For many users, running FTP Sever in Amazon EC2 instance is headache at the first time. You need to experiment before being able to transfer data. The main problems are Ingress firewall in Amazon environment and NAT traversal. Here I’m using vsftp (vsfptd) Server, which is one of the most popular ... http://blog.bhushangahire.net/2009/04/15/install-and-configure-ftp-server-in-amazon-ec2-instance/