The error might look something like this:

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)

From what I understand, IIS doesn’t know what type of MIME type coffeescript is, so it doesn’t serve it out, here’s what you need in your web.config for it to work properly (put in my whole web.config):

<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0"/>
  </system.web>
 
  <system.webServer>
    <httpErrors errorMode="Detailed" />
    <staticContent>
      <mimeMap fileExtension=".coffee" mimeType="coffeescript" />
    </staticContent>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

I gleaned some information from this SO article.

Thanks,
Ry

No pending explicit migrations.
Applying automatic migration: 201205101614472_AutomaticMigration.

Automatic migration was not applied because it would result in data loss.

It’s because my migrations would’ve nuked some of my data. I’m okay with that though, you just need to throw on the -Force tag to get it to complete the migration:

Update-Database -Verbose -Force

Randomly, Rails (Ruby) will just crash. Most of the time it happened while the assets are being served. After some research I was able to figure out that there was a ton of lines being written to the log file. It turns out that there’s some weird bug, either with WEBrick or Ruby itself that ends up crashing the server when writing information to the log file.

You can disable logging, but that’s a pretty big hindrance. My solution was to install thin server (which is very similar to WEBrick but lightweight.

Here’s what you’re going to have to do:

Update your gemfile:

group :development, :test do
  gem 'eventmachine', '1.0.0.beta.4.1', :platforms => [:mswin, :mingw]
  gem 'thin'
end

There’s tons of issues with event machine installing on windows, so make sure you’re using that exact version above. Run bundle install. And instead of running “rails s”, run “thin start” to get your server running.

The worst part about this bug is that it can easily take you down a rabbit hole. Your error might be on a jquery line, or a css line (whatever asset is being served up). Some of the key things that I do know:

This happens with Ruby 1.9.2
This happens with Rails > 3.0 (which makes me think it’s more a Ruby issue)

Windows will produce these errors (hard crash of Ruby):
Ruby Interpreter (CUI) 1.9.2p290 [i386-mingw32] has stopped working
Ruby Interpreter (CUI) 1.9.2p320 [i386-mingw32] has stopped working

***Update I’m running Ruby 1.9.3p125 and haven’t hit this issue yet using WEBrick. This might be an alternative solution instead of using thin server.

***Update If you’re working with people using Linux/Mac, something like this might be more suitable. It will ignore these if you’re not on Windows:

# le windows
platforms :mswin, :mingw do
  gem 'eventmachine', '1.0.0.beta.4.1'
  gem 'thin'
end

Thanks,
Ry

Parse error on line #: unexpected dedent
(in c:/project/app/assets/javascripts/backbone/templates/dartboard.jst.eco)

Broken code:

<% if 7 > 3 %>
  teststring
<% end %>

Fixed Code:

<% if 7 > 3: %>
  teststring
<% end %>

Notice the colon, this is telling coffeescript that the next line is indented. It’s document here: https://github.com/sstephenson/eco it had just slipped my mind.

Ry

I just finished adding a birth control reminder to www.Alertzy.com! It was an interesting addition since I don’t have any “business knowledge” on how the whole birth control system works.

Here’s how it’s broken down:
There’s 2 types of birth control, 21 day and 28 day. The 28 day puts a “spacer” for 7 days (a sugar pill) after the first 21 days. I really wanted to be able to allow both (rather then sending a message every single day). So I set it up that the 21 day reminder to put a 7 day gap (with no text(SMS)) at the end.

Why did I choose birth control for Alertzy? Alertzy’s “motto” is reminders for data that CHANGES. Anything that could be easily punched into a calendar, you won’t see on Alertzy. There’s 2 levels of complexity when taking birth control, reminders, and which cycle day you’re on.

The 28 day reminder part is simple (and could be easily punch into a calendar), however Alertzy also includes the pill #. This seems to be a large difference when compared to other competitors. With Alertzy you don’t need to turn a dial on a birth control system, and you always know which pill you’re on for that day.

The 21 day reminder has a large advantage over the competitors also. Not only would it be a huge pain to punch into a phone, it also gives you 7 day grace period at the end of your 21 days. After the 7 days you’ll start back at cycle #1 and not have to worry about tracking which day to take it.

Hopefully that explains why we chose to have a birth control reminder. Remember that Alertzy’s birth control reminder is a free service, phone independent, and available in Canada and the United States!

Thanks,
Ryan

I’ve had to do quite a few things with the Sharepoint 2010 web services and web client object. I figured I should post some solutions as quite a few of these are undocumented. My goal was not to have to import the SP Library and just use the web services along with the basic GET PUT methods of the WebClient.

Create a Folder with SharePoint 2010 via SOAP Web Services – UpdateListItems
http://www.ryanonrails.com/2011/10/11/create-a-folder-with-sharepoint-2010-via-soap-web-services-updatelistitems/

Upload a document to Sharepoint 2010 via WebClient
http://www.ryanonrails.com/2011/09/17/upload-a-document-to-sharepoint-2010-via-webclient/

Retrieve document ID from SharePoint 2010 via SOAP Web Services – GetListItems
http://www.ryanonrails.com/2011/08/30/retrieve-document-id-from-sharepoint-2010-via-soap-web-services-getlistitems/

Update Custom Columns from SharePoint 2010 via SOAP Web Services – UpdateListItems
http://www.ryanonrails.com/2011/08/30/update-custom-columns-from-sharepoint-2010-via-soap-web-services-updatelistitems/

Check in a file into SharePoint 2010 via SOAP Web Services – CheckInFile
http://www.ryanonrails.com/2011/08/30/check-in-a-file-into-sharepoint-2010-via-soap-web-services-%E2%80%93-checkinfile/

Delete document from SharePoint 2010 via SOAP Web Services – UpdateListItems
http://www.ryanonrails.com/2011/08/30/delete-document-from-sharepoint-2010-via-soap-web-services-updatelistitems/

Download a document from Sharepoint 2010 via WebClient
http://www.ryanonrails.com/2011/10/11/download-a-document-from-sharepoint-2010-via-webclient/

WebClient wc = new WebClient();
wc.Credentials = loginCredentials;
wc.UploadData(destinationUrl, "PUT", fileData);

A big FYI. The Copy.asmx web service will NOT work across domains. Using the above method will work for all occasions (of course the only issue is that you need to update the columns in a separate call.