More on Workling

In a previous post I showed how to set up Starling and Workling for background processing. There, Starling and Workling were really used by a background process to send out scheduled email updates. Now, I want to use them for another type of event, like letting those who posted jobs on Commune2.com know immediately when someone applies for one of their jobs.  So this will be a non-scheduled event that triggers a real time email in the background.

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Restart Workling

I just spent an hour trying to debug a new Workling worker I just added to my application.  As far as I could tell there was nothing wrong with the code, everything SHOULD have been working… but nothing was happening… my new worker was not working!  Silly silly silly.

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Gedit niceness

Good links to have for setting up gedit goodness.

http://github.com/lexrupy/gmate/

http://grigio.org/pimp_my_gedit_was_textmate_linux

Starling, Workling, God, and Whenever

One of the problems with a new website is getting people to comeback to check for new content.  So I wanted to create an email reminder.  So that is what I’ll cover in this post… a background process that once in a while sends an email, reminding people to come back for some new content.

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Generating content from registration

There is a catch 22 problem with getting content for commune2.  And this really is a problem because the content is mostly user submitted posts, and (just a guess here but) people don’t want to post unless they see other posts out there already.  This must be a common problem, but I haven’t really seen a solution like the below anywhere else… although it is really simple.  That’s not to say there aren’t websites with something like this… I just haven’t seen any.

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Setup tutorial for a Rails with Git, Github, Capistrano, Ruby Enterprise, and Passenger

A little while ago, I posted a tutorial on Github.  Now that I have a blog, I am reposting it here…

This tutorial will show you how to rollout a basic Rails application using Git and Capistrano. We will do this while leveraging Github, and – on the production server – Ruby Enterprise Edition and Passenger. The database will be MySQL. We will be using Ubuntu as the OS.

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I am a blogger now

I decided to start a social networking company in early 2009. In part this was because I had been learning Ruby on Rails for a few months at that point, in part because I wanted to start a business and could not find the right people to help me – so I thought a social network for finding such people would be useful, and in part because I tend to be always working on something – and ran out of things to do.

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