If you want to use factory_girl with Rails 3, see http://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl_rails

I added this to my Gemfile:

gem 'factory_girl_rails'

A bundle install to install and done.

Note: I’m using rspec2 and putting my factories in spec/factories/*_factory.rb and I’ve seen references to spec/support/factories/*_factory.rb as well. I’m not sure if either is the blessed location.

Did you know that 93% of all companies that suffer significant data loss close down within 5 years!?

Even if you just have a home computer you likely have some  family photos, music, term papers, and financial data. What happens if you lose all of it?

Personal Computer Backup

Business Computer and Server Backup

Or contact us for consulting and help customizing the right solution for you.

The symptoms you’ll experience are:

1. Go to your search engine.
2. Search for something.
3. Click on link to website.
4. Get taken away to something completely different!

I’ve experienced this on Google, Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, and many others. It’s important to note that most antivirus programs CAN NOT fix this.

But wait, Kaspersky apparently has a fix called TDSSKiller.

IMPORTANT: This fix is quite dangerous. You can kill a computer much too easily by using tools like this improperly. I’m not linking to the download for just this reason.  Instead, let us help you fix your computer. We take great care in ensuring your data doesn’t get lost.

Here’s how to find “Options”:

• Click on the orb up at the top left.
• Down at the bottom right click “Word Options”.
• Continue on to find “About”.
• Now pick “Resources”.
• Over on the right you can see an About button.

There you go.

Oh and by the way, Microsoft Office 2010 brings back the familiar “File Edit View…” toolbar (albeit in a fancy new design). Still, hooray!

So, this rake task will reset all of them, presuming you have something to set them to. In my case, I found the latest comment date and used that, but you could figure it out some other way.

For reference, I was trying to pull from a remote branch and got the error message:

Pull is not possible because you have unmerged files.

A google search revealed this commit (d38a30df7dd54c5c6883) to the git source on January 12, 2010.

The error messages have been updated to be much clearer. Before, you’d get “needs merge” or “error building trees” errors, which didn’t really mean much.

In this case, I was pulling in many commits and had a conflict partway through. I just needed to resolve the files, add/delete them, commit the result and then continue with the pull.

We’ll be sending updates on what we’re doing as well as giving valuable tips to make your computing lifestyle a little easier.

Jammit Warning: Asset compression disabled -- Java unavailable

I checked out Java:

> java -version
java version "1.5.0_22"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_22-b03-333-9M3125)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_22-147, mixed mode, sharing)

Odd.  Poking into the jammit source, I saw that java 1.4 is required to use the YUI javascript compressor, but I had selected the google closure compiler which requires java 1.6, hence the [unclear] error message.

On Leopard, if you’ve run all your System Updates, you probably have java 1.6, but you have to select it as the default:  Applications > Utilities > Java Preferences > drag new version to top

Also, Luke is helping to organize the Ruby Midwest conference, so you should check that out.

Kansas City Ruby Users Group | March 2010 | Luke Pillow | Jeweler for Rubygems | kcrug.org from Wes Garrison on Vimeo.

Kansas City Ruby Users Group | March 2010 | Ryan Smith | Heroku | kcrug.org from Wes Garrison on Vimeo.