http://ruby.zigzo.com Just another Zigzo.com weblog Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:09:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I ran into an issue today.  I have a Blog model that has_many feed_entries. In plain english, I needed a list of blogs ordered by most recently updated feed. My models look like this: blog.rb has_many :feed_entries feed_entry.rb belongs_to :blog The query that makes it possible: Blog.find(:all, :include => :feed_entries, :order => 'feed_entries.published_at DESC') :include makes this possible! http://ruby.zigzo.com/2009/07/20/finding-ordering-through-association/ This is how i got Google Maps working in Radiant CMS via the google_maps extension. This one is pretty easy, but you should know that you HAVE to be using MySQL or PostgreSQL because google_maps uses the spatial adapter plugin which needs one of those 2. First install the GeoRuby gem.  Careful ... http://ruby.zigzo.com/2009/04/20/google-maps-in-radiant-using/ A super easy, no fat, no carbs, anti-oxidant filled three lines that had Rmagick working immediately for me: sudo apt-get install imagemagick sudo apt-get install libmagick9-dev sudo gem install rmagick http://ruby.zigzo.com/2009/04/20/install-rmagick-gem-on-ubuntu/ Easy as pie. First, make sure ray is installed... if it's not, just run ./script/extension install ray Second, install the extension! rake ray:extension:install name=first-reorder This reorder extension is pretty nice.  It provides an ajaxish layout for drag/drop reordering. http://ruby.zigzo.com/2009/04/20/how-to-install-the-first-reorder-extension-for-radiant-cms/ The News extension for Radiant gives you the ability to post "News" items.  The new items are cool for mini updates on things, OR for really posting News :) I am going to go through installing the News extension on Radiant 0.7.1. Based on the install info for News it says you ... http://ruby.zigzo.com/2009/04/20/how-to-install-the-news-extension-for-radiant-cms/ This post is more of a personal note to myself. 99% is copy/paste from either the Radiant wiki, or the Mailer extension's github page. I'm notating this because both the Radiant wiki and Mailer's github page have instructions that confused the hell out of me so I'm consolidating ... http://ruby.zigzo.com/2009/04/19/how-to-create-a-contact-us-page-in-radiant-071/ WYMeditor is a really cool wysiwyg-ish editor -- well technically it's a WYSIWYM  (What You See Is What You Mean). It just so happens that a gentleman named Benny Degezelle has created an extension for Radiant CMS. At the time of this writing I've installed this bad boy on Radiant CMS 0.7.1. FIRST Assuming ... http://ruby.zigzo.com/2009/04/19/how-to-install-the-wymeditor-extension-for-radiant-cms-in-3-steps/ I'm an Ubuntu user and wanted to give the Feedzirra gem a shot and play with some RSS feeds today but unfortunately I ran into a few problems -- which were CAKE to fix thanks to apt-get and hopefully this post will save you some time! So, according to paul dix, ... http://ruby.zigzo.com/2009/02/15/feedzirra-installation-errors/ I've seen a few people confused by this, and I was stumped back in the day SO: FYI, if you want to install gems from GitHub you need to add it as a source! How? Easy! sudo gem sources -a http://gems.github.com Now you can install any gem hosted on GitHub with something like: sudo ... http://ruby.zigzo.com/2009/02/15/install-gems-from-github/ If you are using RailsCollab on Ubuntu and emails are not working, check the config and make sure the path to sendmail is /usr/sbin/sendmail .  This tripped me up because the default path to sendmail is /usr/bin/sendmail and i hardly noticed it was wrong! Postfix in Ubuntu = /usr/sbin/sendmail http://ruby.zigzo.com/2009/02/06/railscollab/