I installed factory_girl (2.6.0) for a project I am working on recently, and all of a sudden I started getting errors with RubyGems when I would try to run a rake task, such as: Invalid gemspec in [/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/capistrano-2.11.2.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: “2012-02-22 00:00:00.000000000Z” Invalid gemspec in [/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/capistrano-2.9.0.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: “2011-09-24…

cPanel is working towards making Rails 3 applications run natively with Passenger, setup via the cPanel interface. I’m not really sure if this will be ideal, as most organizations deploy their apps to the server using Capistrano, not uploading via FTP or something. I’ve been hosting a number of PHP driven sites, including this blog,…

In setting up a new Rails app recently I was told that it needed to be served under the sub-URI of ‘/info’. I hadn’t done this before with a Rails app, and I expected that it could be tricky. I checked online to see how this is done and found references to the ‘relative_url_root’ setting,…

I’m currently working on an app which integrates with the HighRise API using the Highrise Ruby wrapper gem. The classes defined by the gem rely on ActiveResource, the Ruby library included with Rails for interfacing with RESTful resources like the HighRise API. Sometimes I’m not sure if the requests being made via the commands I’m…