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Hi Guys & Girls, Like many on this forum, I''ve been inspired by the success that 37signals has had with their great web apps. I''m a web designer/marketer (based Australia) and I''m looking for people to help me start a new company to develop web based apps. What prompted this post? Well, I was listening to a recent podcast where Jason Fried was talking about how the...

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Hey all, Figured this might be a decent place to ask, I am looking for design firms, but very much would like to look into firms like 37signals that understand how important usability is to a site''s success. I''ve already got a call into 37signals so don''t think I''m going to leave them out, but the more I have the better chance I have of convincing the PHB that we should go this route. Thanks for any su...

See here: http://www.37signals.com/openbar Say you have two applications: 1) Basecamp 2) Highrise How would Highrise know that the user (with the same OpenID credentials) exists on another application (Basecamp)? Is there something involved for that to happen? Are they using ActiveResource to fetch the external user table, a...

Ok, no one has said it yet so I will. http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/bezos_expeditions_invests_in_37signals.php?102#comments How is this going to affect Rails? Or is it? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Asked a little while back about "coolest startups" using Rails, I think it''d have been better had I asked "coolest software." Besides the obvious (37Signals, Typo, Yakima Herald, Odeo, Measure Map, etc.), I''m just curious about other developments where people are using it to make nifty stuff. -- Giles Bowkett www.gilesgoatboy.org

I''ve finally started a blog. I really didn''t want to go public with it until I was sure I keep it up, but DHH posted a entry to his blog that I feel compelled to comment on. You can read about it on my blog: http://www.bloglines.com/blog/CurtHibbs Curt

In the ''basecamp'' product from 37signals if I search for ''ruby'' the I get a bunch of results. In the search result page the search term (ruby in this case) is highlighted. I was wondering how to accomplish the same. How to highlight the ''search term'' in the search result? Is there any already existing...

...r email what CampFire is for instant messaging. The interfaces even look remarkably similar. (For those who are wondering, we started work on 9cays about six months ago, and I hadn''t seen CampFire until a few days ago, so it is just a case of converging design for similar apps, and 37signals ideas generally influencing our design.) I''d like to think that CampFire and 9cays will compliment each other quite well. And finally I''d like to say a big thanks to 37signals, DHH, and the Rails community in general. I don''t think I''ve ever enjoyed dev...

When I define :db to be a different server than either :web or :app, and run "rake deploy". Switchtower will abort with an Net::SSH::AuthenticationFailed error. The version of Switchtower I''m using is 1.0.0 and the deploy task is the default supplied with Switchtowe. However, I dont have any problem when :db is changed to the same as :web and :app. -------------- next part

I created a form with two collection_select, country and state and would like to bring up to date the state list when to select a new country. How I can make this in Rails? Thanks Eleudson Brazil <p><label for="person_country_id">Country</label><br/> <%= collection_select(:person, :country_id, @countries, :id, :name) %></p> <p><label

...to a user''s timezone? Basically I want a user to be able dump all their data before cancelling an account. I store all datetime info as UTC as per the recommendations of Jamis Buck and Scott Barron in the Rails Recipe article "Dealing with Timezones". Come to think of it I bet 37Signals already has figured out a way to do this as they allow users to dump data... Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Zack

Hi, I''m developing an application where I''ll have to store a lot of images coming from the users. And I''m still not sure if I should store them in MySQl as blob or just store them on filesystem. If I store them on filesystem, how to scale when I''ll have to have multiple servers ? Thanks, Pratik -- rm -rf / 2>/dev/null - http://null.in

I originally brought this up in: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/9067 Rails paved the way for Object#tap and Object#try...I''d like to propose Object#tap_if and its counterpart,Object#tap_unless. I''ve been following 37signals conventions of tapping variables in the views: <% account.owner.tap do |user| %> ... <% end %> But, I find myself having to do this a lot... <% account.owner.tap do |user| %> <% if user %> ... <% end %> <% end %> It would be great if we could do......

Hello- I''m new to the ruby-based schemas and migrations. As I''m looking over examples and such online, I see that many of them don''t make use of schema-enforced attributes. For example, instead of: t.column "post_id", :integer, :default => 0, :null => false They do: t.column "post_id", :integer So I''m wondering -- is this

I read in the Agile Rails book that I should avoid GETs for destructive actions. I notice that on 37signals'' Backpack web site, deleting an item in a list is accomplished with a simple click on a picture of a trash can. Is this a violation of the POST/GET rule noted above, or is there some way to make a clickable link send a POST? Ben

...ss Account < AR ... composed_of :time_zone, :class_name => TimeZone, :mapping => %w(time_zone name) end There also seems to be a TZInfo library that supports daylight savings. It seems strange that the TimeZone class in rails doesn''t support daylight savings as Basecamp from 37Signals uses timezones and I''m sure they would have to support it... interesting. Can anyone shed some light on this. :) Thanks, Zack -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060316/0495e453/attachm...

For a medium-sized website, does one machine for database server (either mysql or postgres) and another for the web server (lighttpd) sound ok? How much traffic could I expect to handle? (I know it depends on the application, but some rough estimates would be nice) Joe

I''m struggling to get switchtower working, and from other posts about it I know it has something to do with ruby binding to open ssl. I''m just not sure what I should recompile/reinstall to get things to work. running: "rake remote_exec ACTION=setup" gives me ---> ...executing "mkdir -p -m 775 /usr/apps/hello-rails/releases /usr/apps/hello-rails/shared/system

I''m interested in working on a message board application that uses ruby on rails. I''d like to see something end up similar to vBullieten, but with more of a 37signals type of less-is-more philosophy... mostly meaning less need for preferences and settings and configurations. I''ve checked rubyforge, and it looks like there are various forum apps uploaded there, some a little better than others, but none of the ones I''ve checked out are anywh...