Boston Ruby Group Google Group

October 2008 Boston Ruby Meeting: 10/14 at 7pm

2008-10-08T02:44:38Z

This month's meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 14th at Sermo
[1], 215 First Ave, Cambridge. The meeting runs from 7 to 9pm, but
you can arrive after 6:30.

Jason Morrison [2] will be giving a talk on Clearance [3]:

Josh Nichols [4] will be presenting 'Extracting Plugin and Gems from

Re: Hackfest on Tuesday night

2008-10-07T20:18:44Z

Absolutely. Totally open to anyone.
Dan Croak

Re: Hackfest on Tuesday night

2008-10-07T19:05:02Z

Hey,

It must be a silly question, but do you guys accept new members? I
don't really have anything to hack on, but would love to help & learn.
I've never participated in a hackfest before and so not sure I can
just show up without knowing anyone or the conventions and stuff like
that

Thanks,

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2008-10-07T16:34:59Z

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Re: s3 POST

2008-10-07T02:30:13Z

I use a combination of URLRequest and FileReference
Basically I just build up one URLRequest object with all the required
parameters on it, then call
fileReference.upload(urlReques t, "file", false);
(suppose that you have var filreReference: FileReference, and initialize
it with all the information).

Re: s3 POST

2008-10-07T02:16:22Z

Which flash uploader did you use?

Re: s3 POST

2008-10-07T02:09:40Z

The only problem I have ever had with posting from Flash client to S3 is:
From a client running on Mac OS X Leopard, after posting the file to S3,
somehow the Flash client tries to read back again with a URL without any
query, so it causes an IOError.
But it can be caught and verify if it is actually the last read, then ignore.

Re: Server Side Push technology

2008-10-06T21:08:32Z

Great, thank you!

Re: Server Side Push technology

2008-10-06T20:32:27Z

While Juggernaut is way easy to implement, I took it for an extended test
drive and it failed hard. As did shooting_star and several other push
solutions I tried. They all failed to re-establish broken client connects,
despite having support for it. Reliability was dramatically different from
network to network.

Re: Server Side Push technology

2008-10-06T20:30:29Z

We use Juggernaut, and we have modified it to have improved detection
and repair of timeouts and other browser idiosyncracies. It is fast and
efficient. However, I do not recommend it, because it will NOT go
through a proxy firewall. It requires a non-HTTP connection to the push
server on some port. You can set the port, and you can use port 80,

Re: Server Side Push technology

2008-10-06T20:02:18Z

Thank you guys,
i will look more into it.

Re: Server Side Push technology

2008-10-06T19:59:45Z

I believe the port is already configurable.
-A

Re: Server Side Push technology

2008-10-06T19:54:33Z

I suppose i could, just wanted to hear from other people what they've
used, what they liked, what should i stay away from, etc...
thank for your reply though.

Re: Server Side Push technology

2008-10-06T19:48:48Z

Just looking at the plugin briefly it seems to be all open source.
Could you just modify it to send on the port that you want?

Server Side Push technology

2008-10-06T19:39:22Z

Anybody cab recommend a serverside push technology to use with rails?
I 've looked at Juggernaut and it seems to be integrating with rails
nicely, but...
I don't like the fact that it has to be running on port other then 80,
for me it's a show stopper -- i need to be able to push the updates
through the corporate firewall.