GTD+Moleskine+Tracks=Hipskine

[Stephen Tudor]

Another excellent implementation of GTD... I haven't seen this written
up hardly anywhere, so I thought I'd broadcast it here, and maybe it'll
be worthy of mention on the Mothership.

http://minezamac.com/wiki/index.php/Hipskine

The photos and step-by-step are a very nice touch, and now I'm
intensely curious about Tracks. I've never really looked into running
a Ruby on Rails app on my Mac before.

[Stephen_B]

Thanks for the post -- this looks like it could be a great system. I'm
trying to set it up now.

One thing it seems to provide (at least I hope it does) is a way to see
all the next actions for a project, so you may have one next action in
the @calls box and another in the @errands box, and you can view them
all in a project view.

This would seem to provide a major feature lacking in other issue
tracking systems.

At the moment I use tasks (http://www.kingdesign.net/tasks/) to make my
GTD system accessible on the net. I have a projects folder, but I don't
have of any easy way to see next actions if they are in some other top
level folder.

Here is a screenshot of my current tasks setup:

http://www.theboulets.net/tasks.png

I'm looking forward to comparing tasks with tracks.

Stephen

[Stephen Tudor]

I see Tracks as mainly an excuse to get somewhat into Ruby on Rails. I
got a local copy of it running great, but what I'd really like is to
get a version working with my Linux-based web host, which supposedly
supports Rails. Problem is permissions... not sure how far I'll get as
just a user that isn't allowed to initiate his own server threads, and
even if I could, I don't really feel like babysitting it to make sure
it stays up.

Tasks looks like a mighty nice app from the screenshots and info on the
King Design site -- I'm definitely checking it out.

[Stephen Boulet]

Is there a place to discuss getting tracks up and running on ubuntu? I'm
getting this:

/var/www/htdocs/tracks$ sudo ruby script/server --environment=development
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:186:in
`const_missing': uninitialized constant Soap (NameError)
from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-0.8.1/lib/action_web_service.rb:57
from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-0.8.1/lib/action_web_service.rb:55:in
`class_eval'
from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-0.8.1/lib/action_web_service.rb:55:in
`class_eval'
from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-0.8.1/lib/action_web_service.rb:55
from
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require__'
from
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in `require'
from
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:200:in
`require'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:182:in `activate'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:181:in `each'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:181:in `activate'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:37:in
`require_gem_with_options'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:31:in `require_gem'
from ./script/../config/environment.rb:35
from script/server:45:in `require'
from script/server:45

Stephen

[Evan Edwards]

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 02:15 am, Stephen Boulet wrote:
> Is there a place to discuss getting tracks up and running on ubuntu? I'm
> getting this:

There is a page on the Ruby on Rails Wiki about it:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/RailsOnUbuntuDebianTestingAndUnstable

--
Evan "JabberWokky" Edwards
http://www.cheshirehall.org/

[Stephen_B]

Thanks for that link -- having prepackaged files really makes it easy.

One more question: does anyone know how to set the username/password? I
get a tracks login screen but am not able to log in with the
username/password set up for the database.

Stephen

[Stephen Tudor]

are you still using the following command on purpose?

sudo ruby script/server --environment=development

if so, as a blind suggestion, i'd try instead:

sudo ruby script/server --environment=production

[S. William Schulz]

Don't log in with the db uname/passwd, but rather create one of your own:

http://tracks:3000/login/signup

S

[Stephen Tudor]

I am happy to report that I got Tracks running on my site hosted by
Dreamhost. They support Rails with FastCGI.

[ladyoft...@gmail.com]

Stephen! Tell me, er I mean, US, how! :) I've installed a couple apps
locally on my laptop RoR, but haven't delved into installing it on my
Dreamhost account.